Criminal Justice
Section Leadership
Radha Natarajan
Natarajan, a Somerville resident, is a public defender with the
Committee for Public Counsel Services in
Somerville, where she represents individuals in the Somerville,
Malden and Woburn district courts as well as Middlesex Superior
Court. She is the 2011 recipient of the MBA's Access to Justice
Defender Award. Natarajan is co-chair of the MBA Task Force on Law
Schools and the Law Economy and an At-Large Delegate to the MBA's
House of Delegates. A graduate of New York University School of
Law, she was the managing editor of New York University Law
Review. Natarajan's article, "Racialized Memory and
Reliability: Due Process Applied to Cross-Racial Eyewitness
Identifications" has been citied in numerous articles and by the
U.S. District Courts in the Eastern District of New York and the
Southern District of Texas. She is an Instructor in the First Year
Writing Program at Boston University School of Law.
Adam J. Foss
Foss is an assistant district attorney in the Juvenile Division
of the Suffolk County District Attorney's Office,
where he founded a Reading Program to bridge the achievement gap of
area elementary school students. The DA's office selected him
as the 2012 recipient of the Brian J. Honan Award for excellence in
the courtroom and a commitment to the communities he serves. Foss
also received a commendation from the State House for those
efforts. He sits on the MBA's House of Delegate, is on the
executive board of the Massachusetts Black Lawyers Association and
vice-chair of its Community Service Committee. In 2008, Foss
graduated Cum Laude from Suffolk University Law School and in 2007
he was awarded the prestigious Book Award from the Massachusetts
Black Judges Conference. Foss is creating a diversion program for
first time juvenile offenders in the Suffolk County Juvenile Court
and is co-founder of Roxbury CHOICE Program, an initiative to turn
probation from a punitive sentence into a beneficial relationship
with the court, the probation department, and the District
Attorney's Office. He lives in the Ashmont neighborhood of
Dorchester.