HON. MARGOT BOTSFORD is an associate justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, appointed by Governor Deval Patrick in September 2007. She is a graduate of Barnard College (B.A., magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, 1969), Northeastern University School of Law (J.D., 1973), and Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government (M.P.A., 2007). Upon graduating from law school, Judge Botsford served as law clerk to Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Justice Francis J. Quirico. During the next sixteen years, she worked primarily in the public sector. She served four years as an assistant attorney general under Attorney General Frank Bellotti and later as an assistant district attorney in the office of Middlesex County District Attorney Scott Harshbarger for six years. Judge Botsford also practiced law in the private sector for one year as an associate at Hill & Barlow and three years as a partner at Rosenfeld, Botsford & Krokidas. In 1989, she was appointed as an associate justice of the Superior Court, where she served for eighteen years. Judge Botsford has taught at Northeastern University School of Law, Boston University School of Law, the National Judicial College, and the Flaschner Judicial Institute. Among her awards and honors are Judicial Excellence Awards from the Massachusetts Judicial Conference and the Massachusetts Academy of Trial Attorneys, and the Haskell Cohn Distinguished Judicial Service Award from the Boston Bar Association. (August 2010)