Margaret H. Marshall ’76 J.D.
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Margaret H. Marshall is Chief Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts. Born in South Africa, she earned a B.A. from the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg and a master’s degree in education from Harvard University. After graduating from Yale Law School, she practiced law for sixteen years and was a partner in the Boston firm of Choate, Hall & Stewart. She served as vice president and general counsel of Harvard University from 1992 until 1996, when she was appointed to the Supreme Judicial Court. Chief Justice Marshall, who became a U.S. citizen in 1978, is a member of the Council of the American Law Institute and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 1994 she received both the American Bar Association’s Margaret Brent Women Lawyers of Achievement Award and the American Jewish Congress’s Louis D. Brandeis Award. She has been a member of the Yale Law School Association Executive Committee since 1991, was elected Alumni Fellow in 2004, and received the Yale Law School Alumni Award of Merit in 2006.
