ADJUNCT LAW FACULTY

Geraldine Hines has been an Associate Justice of the Massachusetts Superior Court since 2001. She is a 1968 graduate of Tougaloo College in Mississippi and a 1971 graduate of the University of Wisconsin Law School. As an attorney, she concentrated her practice in civil rights litigation, criminal defense, social justice lawyering and policy advocacy. From 1980 to 2001, she co-taught Criminal Advocacy Clinic with Professor John Flym at Northeastern University School of Law and since 2001, she has taught Criminal Trial Practice. Judge Hines is a frequent speaker at bench-bar education programs. In alternating years, she co-leads the week-long MCLE Trial Advocacy Workshop with Judge Paul Chernoff. Judge Hines has also been involved in numerous activities related to international politics and human rights in Africa and the Caribbean. In 2002, she received a certificate from the International Human Rights Academy sponsored by the University of Ghent and the University of the Western Cape in South Africa. In 2011, Judge Hines was presented a judicial achievement award by the Massachusetts Academy of Trial Lawyers.

Degrees:
BA, Tougaloo College; JD, University of Wisconsin

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Hon. Geraldine Hines
Suffolk University Law School
120 Tremont Street
Boston, MA 02108-4977