May we all get along well with our exes.
Democratic Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey wants to elevate her former flame to the highest court in the commonwealth.
On Wednesday, Healey, 52, announced the nomination of state Court of Appeals Associate Justice Gabrielle Wolohojian, 63, to the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court.
“There is no one more qualified or better prepared to serve on the Supreme Judicial Court than Judge Wolohojian,” Healey said in a statement. “He has an exceptional understanding of the law and a strong commitment to the administration of justice.”
The announcement of the government’s nomination did not mention the couple’s personal history.
Healey and Wolohojian met while working at the white-shoe law firm Hale & Dorr, aka WilmerHale, and the pair became a couple in 2007, according to a 2015 Boston Magazine profile of Healey, then Massachusetts attorney general.
Gov. Maura Healey’s office did not immediately comment on her past relationship with her judicial nominee. AP
The two have split, with Healey moving into his new partner Joanna Lydgate’s home in suburban Arlington, Mass., the Boston Globe reported last summer.
Wolohojian is Healey’s second nomination to fill an opening on the seven-member Massachusetts Supreme Court, which considers legendary Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. among its previous members.
Nominations must now be confirmed by the nine-member Council of Governors.
Gabrielle Wolohojian has decades of legal experience. mass.gov
Healy nominated Wolohojian to fill the seat vacated by Judge David Lowy, an appointee of former Republican Gov. Charlie Baker, who left the court to take a job at his undergraduate alma mater, the University of Massachusetts.
The other five current Supreme Judicial Court justices were also appointed by Baker.
Wolohojian was first named to the state Court of Appeals in 2008, has authored more than 900 decisions, and played a role in more than 2,7000 appeals, per Healey’s office.
Governor Maura Healey succeeds Charlie Baker as governor of The Bay State. Reuters
“Wolohojian is uniquely qualified to join the Supreme Judicial Court at a time when it enjoys and is committed to maintaining its reputation as one of the most respected state supreme courts in the country,” retired Associate Justice Geraldine Hines said in a statement.
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The granddaughter of Armenian immigrants, the New York-born Wolohojian worked in the independent counsel’s office during the early days of the Whitewater investigation involving former President Bill Clinton.
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