Each month, the Massachusetts Bar Association’s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee (DEIC) will be highlighting diverse attorneys from within our community on the DEIC web page to recognize their achievements and contributions. This March, when we celebrate Women's History Month and International Women's Day (March 8), the DEIC is proud to shine a light on Hon. Fabiola White, who is an associate justice of the Massachusetts Juvenile Court and a member of the MBA’s Juvenile & Child Welfare Section Council.
Judge White is an associate justice of the Massachusetts Juvenile Court, where she presides over criminal matters, including delinquencies, youthful offender cases, care and protection matters, and children requiring assistance cases. She was appointed to the Juvenile Court by Gov. Maura Healey in December 2023.
From 2019-2023, she worked for the Massachusetts Probation Service, first as an administrative attorney and then as deputy legal counsel in the legal unit. Her primary responsibilities were to provide legal assistance to probation staff in the District Court and Boston Municipal Court, Superior Court, Probate and Family Court, and Juvenile Court.
Prior to that, she led her own practice, where she represented children and families in care and protection proceedings, guardianships, child requiring assistance, and delinquency proceedings in the Cambridge and Boston juvenile courts.
In addition, she represented adults in criminal cases in the Cambridge and Chelsea district courts. She was a member of organizations that oversee appointed private attorneys, including Suffolk Lawyers for Justice, Middlesex Defense Attorneys, and the Committee for Public Counsel Services’ Children and Family Law Division.
Judge White also worked for the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office as a victim witness advocate in Suffolk Superior Court, Chelsea District Court and the Boston Municipal Court. While at the DA’s Office, she worked part time at the “Meeting Place” as a child access supervisor, where she facilitated and documented child-parent interactions in court-ordered supervised visits.
Judge White has a B.A in criminal justice from Lasell College, an M.A. in criminal justice from Suffolk University and a J.D. from Massachusetts School of Law.