ADJUNCT LAW FACULTY

Judge Cratsley currently serves as a mediator and arbitrator in the Boston Office of JAMS, an international dispute resolution firm. He is also a Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School, teaching in their Trial Advocacy Workshop and a clinical course entitled "Judicial Process in Community Courts" which places law students with judges. He is also on the Adjunct Faculty at Boston College Law School where he teaches a class entitled "The Judge and the Community Courts." He retired from the Massachusetts Superior Court in September 2011 after 33 years on the bench; ten in the Roxbury District Court and twenty-three in the Superior Court. Judge Cratsley served as Chief of the Public Protection Bureau in the Department of Attorney General Francis X.Bellotti from 1983-1987. He also served as a member of the Massachusetts Parole Board from 1972 to 1973, just prior to his appointment to the Roxbury Court. Previously he served as a staff attorney and Chief Attorney at Cambridge and Somerville Legal Services (now part of Greater Boston Legal Services) from 1968 to 1972. Judge Cratsley is a graduate of Swarthmore College, the University of Chicago Law School and has an LLM in Trial Advocacy from the Georgetown University Law Center. He has participated in numerous international judicial exchange programs and written on mediation and judicial ethics.

Degrees:
BA, Swarthmore College; JD, University of Chicago; LL.M. Georgetown University

Hon. John C. Cratsley (Ret.)                                    
Suffolk University Law School
120 Tremont Street
Boston, MA 02108-4977