Bessie Dewar
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Bessie Dewar | |
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| Associate Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court | |
| Assumed office January 16, 2024 | |
| Appointed by | Maura Healey |
| Preceded by | Elspeth B. Cypher |
| Attorney General of Massachusetts | |
Acting | |
| In office January 5, 2023 – January 18, 2023 | |
| Governor | Maura Healey |
| Preceded by | Kate R. Cook (acting) |
| Succeeded by | Andrea Campbell |
| Personal details | |
| Born | July 4, 1980 |
| Party | Democratic |
| Education | Harvard University (BA) Pembroke College, Cambridge (MPhil) Yale University (JD) |
Elizabeth Napier "Bessie" Dewar (born July 4, 1980)[1] is an American lawyer who has served as an associate justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court since 2024. She previously served as the state solicitor of Massachusetts from 2016 to 2024. Prior to serving as the state solicitor, she had served as the assistant state solicitor under former state solicitor Peter Sacks.
Dewar graduated from Harvard University with a Bachelor of Arts degree. She then received a Master of Philosophy degree from Pembroke College, Cambridge and earned her Juris Doctor from Yale University. After law school, Dewar served as a law clerk at all three levels of the federal judiciary, starting with Louis H. Pollak of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, then William A. Fletcher of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and finally Stephen Breyer of the Supreme Court of the United States.[2]