Douglas Preston Woodlock

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American judge (born 1947)

Douglas Preston Woodlock (born February 27, 1947) is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts . Born in Connecticut, Woodlock graduated from Yale College and worked as a journalist before attending Georgetown University Law Center . After graduating, Woodlock was a lawyer in private practice at Goodwin, Procter & Hoar , and had stints at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Massachusetts . Appointed to the federal bench in 1986, Woodlock presided over a number of noteworthy cases and was a key figure in the construction of the John Joseph Moakley United States Courthouse on the Boston waterfront. He assumed senior status in 2015.

Early life and education

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Woodlock was born in Hartford, Connecticut , on February 27, 1947. His family moved to the Chicago suburb of La Grange, Illinois , where Woodlock spent the first two years of high school. He spent his last two years of high school at Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts .

Woodlock received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Yale College in 1969, where he was a member of Skull and Bones , and vice chairman of the _Yale Daily News _. He began his career in journalism as an intern at the _Chicago Daily News _, covering the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago. Woodlock then became a reporter at the _Chicago Sun-Times _ from 1969 to 1973, where he worked in Chicago and Springfield, Illinois , before moving to the Sun-Times's Washington Bureau in 1971–1973, where he covered the Supreme Court .

Woodlock then attended Georgetown University Law Center , where he was a member of _The Georgetown Law Journal _. He earned his Juris Doctor in 1975.

Career

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Woodlock worked in the Office of Chief Counsel for the Division of Corporation Finance at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission from 1973 to 1975 and was a law clerk for Judge Frank Jerome Murray of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts from 1975 to 1976.

He was in private practice in Boston from 1976 to 1979 as an associate at the law firm of Goodwin, Procter & Hoar , before becoming an Assistant United States Attorney in the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Massachusetts,

serving under U.S. Attorneys Edward F. Harrington and Bill Weld . He was assigned to the Justice Department's New England Task Force from 1982 to 1983. Woodlock returned to Goodwin, Procter & Hoar in 1983,

where he was made a partner in 1984, and remained at the firm until his appointment to the federal bench. Woodlock was also chairman of the Board of Appeals for the Town of Hamilton from 1978 to 1979; an instructor at Harvard Law School in 1980 and 1981; and chairman of the Massachusetts Committee for Public Counsel Services from 1984 to 1986.

Federal judicial service

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Woodlock was closely involved in the design of Boston's waterfront John Joseph Moakley United States Courthouse .

Woodlock was nominated by President Ronald Reagan on April 22, 1986, to a seat on the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts vacated by Judge Wendell Arthur Garrity Jr.

He was confirmed by the United States Senate on June 13, 1986, on a voice vote ,

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