October 6, 2004

ROMNEY NOMINATES MACDONALD, MCINTYRE FOR SUPERIOR COURT

Governor Mitt Romney today nominated D. Lloyd Macdonald and Frances Ann McIntyre to serve as Associate Justices of the Superior Court.

Macdonald, of Boston, has been a partner at Kirkpatrick and Lockhart for the last 20 years. Previously, he was the Chief of Special Investigations for the United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Massachusetts from 1978 to 1982 and also was the Chief of the Aggravated Felonies Squad for the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office from 1974 to 1982. Macdonald also was the Assistant Director for the Harvard Law School Center for Criminal Justice from 1970 until 1974.

Macdonald earned his bachelor’s degree from Harvard College and his law degree from Columbia University. He also obtained his Diploma Criminology from Cambridge University.

McIntyre, also of Boston, has primarily focused on civil litigation work for the last four years at Ficksman and Conley, LLP. Previously, she was a prosecutor, serving from 1999 to 2000 as an Assistant District Attorney in Middlesex County and Chief of the Criminal Bureau for the Attorney General’s Office from 1997 through 1999. From 1992 through 1997, McIntyre served as an Assistant District Attorney in Norfolk County and prior to that, the Second Assistant for the Plymouth County District Attorney’s Office from 1980 through 1992.

McIntyre was awarded the Massachusetts District Attorney’s Association’s Prosecutor of the Year Award in 1999.

McIntyre received her bachelor’s from Stonehill College, her master’s degree in education from the University of Rhode Island in 1973 and her law degree cum laude from Suffolk University Law School.

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