1. Michael Boudin was an American lawyer and jurist who served as a United States circuit judge of the US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit from 1992 to 2021.
19 Facts About Michael Boudin
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Michael Boudin served as Chief Judge of that court from 2001 to 2008.
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Michael Boudin was the older brother of Weather Underground member Kathy Boudin.
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Michael Boudin was educated at Elizabeth Irwin High School before going on to Harvard University, where he graduated in 1961 with a Bachelor of Arts in government.
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Michael Boudin then attended Harvard Law School, where he was president of the Harvard Law Review.
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Michael Boudin graduated first in his class with a Bachelor of Laws in 1964.
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Michael Boudin worked as a visiting professor at Harvard Law School from 1982 to 1983, and then as a lecturer there from 1983 to 1998.
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Michael Boudin then served in President Reagan's Justice Department as a deputy assistant United States Attorney General of the Antitrust Division from 1987 to 1990.
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Michael Boudin was confirmed by the United States Senate on August 3,1990, and received his commission on August 7,1990.
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Michael Boudin served on the District Court for about 18 months, but resigned on January 31,1992, to return to Massachusetts.
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Michael Boudin was confirmed by the Senate on May 21,1992, and received his commission on May 26,1992.
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Michael Boudin served as Chief Judge of the First Circuit from 2001 to 2008.
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The New York Times stated that Michael Boudin was "not easy to pigeonhole ideologically".
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Michael Boudin was described by some as a conservative and by others as a centrist.
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In 2012, Michael Boudin penned a decision holding the Defense of Marriage Act, a federal law defining marriage as an opposite-sex union, unconstitutional.
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Michael Boudin was widely regarded as having a brilliant legal mind.
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Michael Boudin was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2010.
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Michael Boudin's nephew, Chesa Boudin, is an attorney who has served as district attorney of San Francisco.
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Michael Boudin died from complications of dementia and Parkinson's disease at a care facility in Boston on March 24,2025, at the age of 85.