USDC's Saylor to take senior status
U.S. District Court Chief Judge F. Dennis Saylor IV of the District of Massachusetts has advised President Joe Biden that he intends to take senior status effective July 31, 2025. He will continue to serve as a senior U.S. District Court judge.
Saylor was appointed to the court on June 2, 2004, and has served as chief judge since
2020. He is a member of the Judicial Conference Committee on Judicial Resources and the Executive Education Advisory Committee of the Federal Judicial Center. Saylor presided over the Central Division in Worcester from 2004 to 2012, when he was reassigned to the Eastern Division in Boston. He was appointed to a term on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court from 2011 to 2018, and served on the Committee on Defender Services of the Judicial Conference of the United States from 2009 to
2015. He was an assistant U.S. attorney in the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Massachusetts from 1987 to 1990. He later was special counsel and chief of staff to Robert Mueller, the assistant attorney general of the Criminal Division at the U.S. Department of Justice, from 1990 to 1993. Saylor was in private practice at Goodwin Procter in Boston, from 1981 to 1987, and again from 1993 to 2004.
Saylor was an adjunct professor of law at Boston University School of Law, where he
taught trial advocacy from 2007 to 2021. He has also written and lectured on trial advocacy, including co-authoring a column on trial practice in Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly. He received an Honorary Doctor of Laws Degree from New England Law in 2021. He is a graduate of Northwestern University ‘77 and Harvard Law School ‘81.
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Comments on bankruptcy rule amendments due Oct. 31
Comments are due by Oct. 31 on proposed amendments to the Local Bankruptcy Rules of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Massachusetts.
They should be submitted to Mary P. Sharon, clerk of court, at U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Office of the Clerk, John W. McCormack Post Office and Court House, 5 Post Office Square, Suite 1150, Boston, MA 02109-3945, or at mlbr_comments@mab.uscourts.gov.