"Dynamics changing on federal bench in Mass." by Milton J. Valencia | Globe Staff, February 24, 2014
The federal judgeship in Massachusetts is set to undergo the most sweeping makeover it has seen in 20 years, as new appointees fill four open seats and other veteran judges take more of a back-seat role in deciding many of the area’s most high-profile cases.
The remake of the 13-person US District Court in Massachusetts is already underway. Two of the existing judges are relative newcomers, having been appointed in just over three years.
With three more new arrivals to follow, and a fourth still to be named, the makeup of the federal bench in Massachusetts will be more dramatically changed than at any time since the mid-1990s, when President Clinton made six appointments from 1993 to 1995....
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