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Patti B. Saris

Judge, U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts · 1993

Patti B. Saris , Judge, U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts. Patti Barbara Saris (born July 20, 1951) is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts. She is also the former chair of the United States Sentencing Commission.

Education

  • Radcliffe CollegeB.A., 1973
  • Harvard Law SchoolJ.D., 1976

Career

Law clerk, Hon. Robert Braucher, Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, 1976-1977; Private practice, Boston, Massachusetts, 1977-1979, 1981-1982; Staff counsel, U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, 1979-1981; Assistant U.S. attorney, District of Massachusetts, 1982-1986; chief, Civil Division, 1984-1986; Associate justice, Massachusetts Superior Court, 1989-1993; Chair, U.S. Sentencing Commission, 2010-2017

Biography

Patti Barbara Saris (born July 20, 1951) is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts. She is also the former chair of the United States Sentencing Commission.

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