Justice Elizabeth N. Dewar Administered Oath January 16, 2024 Elizabeth N. Dewar, Associate Justice, was appointed to the Supreme Judicial Court by Governor Maura Healey on January 16, 2024. Prior to this appointment, Justice Dewar served as the Commonwealth's State Solicitor. Justice Dewar was appointed by the Attorney General to serve as the state's second State Solicitor in 2016. In her role as State Solicitor, she supervised the briefing and arguing of appeals by attorneys throughout the Attorney General's Office in the Supreme Judicial Court as well as other state and federal courts, advised the Attorney General on exercising her authority to decide whether to appeal adverse decisions, and led the office's "friend of the court" amicus brief practice, among other responsibilities. She also briefly served as Acting Attorney General in early 2023. As State Solicitor, she served ex officio as a member of the Supreme Judicial Court's Standing Advisory Committee on the Rules of Appellate Procedure. Justice Dewar previously worked as an appellate and trial-level lawyer in private practice at Ropes & Gray LLP, was a civil rights advocate at the Public Interest Law Center of Philadelphia, and served as a law clerk at all three levels of the federal judiciary, for the Honorable Stephen G. Breyer of the U.S. Supreme Court; the Honorable William A. Fletcher of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in San Francisco, CA; and the late Honorable Louis H. Pollak, of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, PA. Justice Dewar earned a bachelor's degree from Harvard College, a master's degree from the University of Cambridge, and a law degree from the Yale Law School.

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