Re: Lesbian Healey nominates Wolohojian, appellate judge and former romantic lesbian partner, to Supreme Judicial Court

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Gov. Maura Healey on Wednesday is nominating Appeals Court Judge
Gabrielle Wolohojian to fill the vacancy on the Supreme Judicial
Court, elevating to the state's highest court the longtime appellate
judge who is also the governor's former domestic partner.

Wolohojian was nominated to the Appeals Court by Gov. Deval Patrick
in 2007, and has sat on more than 2,700 appeals and authored more
than 900 decisions since taking the bench in February 2008. She
serves as chair of the Supreme Judicial Court’s Advisory Committees
on the Rules of Appellate Procedure and of the Appeals Court’s
Committees on Judicial Mentoring and Training, Education, Policies
and Practices, and En Banc Rehearings.

Healey is nominating Wolohojian to fill the vacancy created by last
week's resignation of Justice David Lowy, a Gov. Charlie Baker
appointee who left the SJC for a job at the University of
Massachusetts. It also comes days after the first sitting for
Healey's first SJC nominee, Justice Bessie Dewar. The nomination now
goes to the Governor's Council for its consideration and an eventual
confirmation vote.

"There is no one more qualified or better prepared to serve on the
Supreme Judicial Court than Justice Wolohojian. She will bring over
three decades of broad trial and appellate experience, including
sixteen years on the Appeals Court," Healey said in a statement that
did not reference the fact that the two women were previously in a
domestic relationship and lived together in Charlestown. "Justice
Wolohojian has served on the Appeals Court with distinction and her
work is widely respected by members of the bench and bar. She has an
exceptional understanding of the law and a strong commitment to the
administration of justice."

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Following Healey’s 9 a.m. announcement of Wolohojian's nomination,
Massachusetts Republican Party Chair Amy Carnevale reacted with an
early afternoon statement calling on the governor to withdraw her
pick.

“It is highly inappropriate for the Governor to nominate to
Massachusetts’ highest court an individual with whom she had a
long-term romantic relationship in the past," Carnevale said. "This
nomination clearly demonstrates a lack of accountability inherent in
one-party rule. We urge the Governor to immediately withdraw her
nominee and, if not withdrawn, we urge the Governor’s Council to
reject this nominee."

Before being appointed to the bench, Wolohojian was a senior partner
at Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr, worked in the office of
the independent counsel during the early days of the Whitewater
scandal that eventually enveloped the Clinton presidency and
resulted in the Monica Lewinsky scandal, and defended pharmaceutical
giant Wyeth in over 2,600 Massachusetts liability cases that emerged
out of the use of diet drugs.

She also clerked for U.S. District Court Judge Rya Zobel and the
federal First Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Bailey Aldrich.
Wolohojian is an accomplished violinist and has performed as part of
the Boston Civic Symphony and the Boston Bar Orchestra.

Retired SJC Justice Geraldine Hines said Wolohojian is "uniquely
qualified to join the Supreme Judicial Court at a time when it
enjoys and is committed to maintaining its reputation as one of the
most respected state supreme courts in the country."


Healey previously lived in Charlestown with Wolohojian, who was
identified as Healey's partner as early as October 2013 when Healey
first announced she would run for attorney general. In 2015, Healey
told Boston Magazine that she met Wolohojian while they both worked
at Hale & Dorr and that they had been together for about eight years
at that point.

Before being elected governor in 2022, Healey had moved from the
address she shared with Wolohojian to the South End and then
Cambridge. She now lives in Arlington at the home of her new
partner, Joanna Lydgate.

This article was originally published on February 07, 2024.

https://www.wbur.org/news/2024/02/07/healey-sjc-nomination-
wolohojian