Jurist’s career of firsts hits a milestone
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Author: Jonathan Saltzman
Source: The Boston Globe
Date: 06/16/2008
Article reports that Sandra L. Lynch "will achieve another career distinction" when she is sworn in as the first female chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. Lynch, who was the first female law clerk "to a well-known federal judge in Rhode Island," and the first female head of the litigation department at the Boston law firm Foley, Hoag & Eliot, will now serve as the first female chief judge to ever sit on the First Circuit's bench. Currently, Lynch claims that her biggest challenge "is encouraging Congress and a not-always-sympathetic public to raise the pay of federal judges, which has not changed significantly in two decades." Other challenges Lynch will face include a growing caseload in the court.