He was appointed by Governor Caleb Strong an associate judge of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court on February 24, 1814, and served until his death in Williamstown, Massachusetts, May 26, 1815.
The judges in this case, heard before Military Tribunal I, were Lee B. Wyatt (presiding judge), Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia; Daniel T. O'Connell of the Superior Court of Massachusetts, and Johnson T. Crawford from Oklahoma.
In 1890, the Supreme Court of Massachusetts declared the proceedings "faulty"; in 1892, all five professors, Tucker included, were "acquitted."
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In 1986, Natsios introduced legislation to repeal the Massachusetts Teachers' Oath, a product of the 1930s that remained law in the Commonwealth even after the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court invalidated the law in 1967.
The legal scholar Robert Cover suggests in the preface to his book, Justice Accused: Antislavery and the Judicial Process, that Captain Vere may have been modeled after Chief Justice Lemuel Shaw of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court.
The court is located at the John Adams Courthouse at Pemberton Square in Boston, the same building which houses the Supreme Judicial Court and the Social Law Library.
Prior to that, she served as a judicial clerk for the Honorable Herbert P. Wilkins, Associate Justice, Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court.
G. Joseph Tauro (1906–1994), Chief Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Margaret H. Marshall (born 1944), 23rd Chief Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Lemuel Shaw, Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Levy's first book was a revision and expansion of his doctoral dissertation on Lemuel Shaw, chief justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court.
Margaret H. Marshall (born 1944), Chief Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Theophilus Parsons, Chief Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Margaret H. Marshall – former Chief Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court