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About John Greaney
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- Greaney (born April 8, 1939) is a former Associate Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court and former Chief Justice of the Massachusetts Appeals Court.
- After his judicial retirement, he served as Director of the Macaronis Institute for Trial and Appellate Advocacy at Suffolk University Law School.
- He currently is in private practice as Senior Counsel at Bulkley Richardson in Springfield, Massachusetts. John Greaney was born in Westfield, Massachusetts, on April 8, 1939.
- He graduated from St Mary's High School, the College of the Holy Cross, and received a law degree from New York University School of Law.
- After briefly serving in the military, Chief Justice Greaney joined the Springfield law firm of Ely and King until his appointment to the Hampden County Housing Court in 1974.
- Greaney served as presiding judge in the Housing Court until Governor Michael Dukakis appointed him to the Superior Court in 1975, then to the Appeals Court in 1978.
- He served as an associate justice until 1984, when he became the Appeals Court's chief justice.
- In 1989, Greaney was appointed to the Supreme Judicial Court, where he served until his retirement in 2008.
- In his time on the bench, he wrote a well-known concurrence in Goodridge v.
- Department of Public Health.
- In 2008, Justice Greaney retired from the court and was appointed director of the Macaronis Institute for Trial and Appellate Advocacy at Suffolk University Law School in Boston.
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