Speaker
David A. Lowy-General Counsel, University of Massachusetts
Hon. David Lowy (ret.) currently serves as the General Counsel for the University of Massachusetts. Appointed by Governor Charlie Baker, Justice Lowy served as an Associate Justice on the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court from 2016-2024. He was appointed to the Superior Court bench by Governor Paul Cellucci in 2001 and was first appointed to the bench in 1997 as a District Court Judge. During his tenure, Justice Lowy served on the Supreme Judicial Court Advisory Committee on Massachusetts Evidence Law as an Editor; the Committee’s work resulted in the publication of the Massachusetts Guide to Evidence in 2008. Justice Lowy also served as Deputy Legal Counsel to Governor William F. Weld and an assistant district attorney in Essex and Suffolk Counties. Following law school, Justice Lowy became an associate in the Litigation Department of Goodwin, Procter & Hoar, leaving for a year-long stint to work as a law clerk for the Judge Edward F. Harrington in the U.S. District Court. He earned a B.A., cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and graduated magna cum laude from Boston University School of Law.