Lawyers e-Journal
Thursday, Aug. 25, 2011
Top from left to right: MBA Treasurer Robert L. Holloway Jr., SJC Chief Justice Roderick Ireland and MBF Immediate Past President Laurence M. Johnson.
Bottom: SJC Chief Justice Roderick Ireland speaks to students at the 2011 Judicial Youth Corps Program celebration.
Photos by Jennifer Rosinski.
Supreme Judicial Court Judicial Youth Corps holds annual appreciation day
Supreme Judicial Court Chief Justice Roderick L. Ireland told
more than a dozen high school students from Boston and Worcester
that their experience in the SJC's Judicial Youth Corps are the
building blocks for the great things that they will accomplish in
the future. The students attended a special appreciation day at the
John Adams Courthouse in Boston on Aug. 19.
Ireland, an advisor to and an ardent supporter of the Judicial
Youth Corps since it began in 1991 in Boston, said he hopes that
one day the program can exist in every community across the state.
Ireland said he was especially grateful to the court employees who
voluntarily took time out of their days to work with the
students.
The Massachusetts Bar Association administers the Worcester portion
of the program. The Massachusetts Bar Foundation, the philanthropic
partner of the MBA, is the lead supporter of the Worcester program
with additional funding this year from the Massachusetts Bar
Association Insurance Agency and the Worcester County Bar
Foundation. The Boston program is funded by the Boston Private
Industry Council.
"Sadly, too few of our citizens understand the workings of our
justice system and our government generally. The Judicial Youth
Corps provides an opportunity for some of our young people to learn
these workings and the values underlying those workings," MBA
Treasurer Robert L. Holloway Jr. said. "Graduates of the program, I
am confident, like ambassadors, will spread the word, providing
education for others."
Other speakers at the appreciation day included MBF Immediate Past
President Laurence M. Johnson; James Rosseel, an attorney and
teacher at Forest Grove Middle School in Worcester; Gerald Howland,
an attorney and teacher at Another Course to College in Boston;
Geidy Romero, a student at Another Course to College; and
Daisy Wangari, a student at Burncoat High School in Worcester.