Denise J. Casper

Denise Casper
Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts
Incumbent
Assumed office December 20, 2010
Appointed by	Barack Obama
Preceded by	Reginald Lindsay
Personal details
Born	January 9, 1968 East Patchogue, New York, U.S.
Alma mater	Wesleyan University (B.A., 1990) Harvard Law School (J.D., 1994)

Denise Jefferson Casper (born January 9, 1968) is a United States federal judge on the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts.^[1] She was confirmed by the Senate on December 17, 2010 and her commission was signed by President Barack Obama on December 20, 2010. She used to be the Deputy District Attorney for the Middlesex District Attorney's Office in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Casper is the first black female judge to serve on the federal bench in Massachusetts.^[2]

Early life and education

She was born in East Patchogue, New York. Casper received her B.A. from Wesleyan University in 1990 and her J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1994.^[3]

Professional career

Casper started her professional career as a law clerk for Edith W. Fine and J. Harold Flannery of the Massachusetts Appeals Court. During the period of 1995 through 1998, she was an attorney with the firm of Bingham McCutchen where she conducted civil litigation. In 1999 Casper became an Assistant United States Attorney in Boston and was the Deputy Chief of the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force starting in 2004.

She served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in Boston from 1999 until 2005 and taught legal writing at Boston University School of Law from 2005 through 2007.

Casper served as the Deputy District Attorney for the Middlesex District Attorney’s Office in Cambridge, Massachusetts from 2007 until her confirmation as a federal judge.

In 2013 she presided over the trial, conviction and sentencing of Boston's infamous organized crime boss Whitey Bulger.

Personal

Judge Casper married her husband, Marc N. Casper, in 1994.^[4] He is President and CEO of Thermo Fisher Scientific.

References

1. "Obama nominates Denise Casper as federal judge in Boston". Boston Herald. April 29, 2010.
2. Judge Breaks New Ground as First Black Woman to Sit on Bench in Massachusetts, Unprecedented. The Boston Globe. By Milton J. Valencia. 10 June 2012. Retrieved 24 June 2012.
3. "Questionnaire for Judicial Nominees" (PDF). United States Senate. Retrieved August 2, 2010.
4. WEDDINGS; Denise Jefferson, Marc N. Casper, New York Times (August 21, 1994).

External links

• Denise J. Casper at the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges, a public domain publication of the Federal Judicial Center.