Joanne Golden
Joanne Golden (CAS’90, Questrom’97) of Quincy, Mass., worked in financial services for 15 years before graduating from Suffolk University Law School in 2009. She is an attorney for the Social Security Administration Office of Disability Adjudication and Review in Boston. “Since May 2013, I have been part of a working group within the Women’s Bar Association of Massachusetts who have researched and drafted legislation to ban female genital mutilation and cutting in the state,” she writes. “We had our hearing before the Joint Committee on the Judiciary on December 1, 2015, and we have the support of 34 medical, legal, women’s health, domestic violence, and community-based nonprofit groups, as well as two Boston city councilors and Attorneys General Maura Healey and Martha Coakley (LAW’79). We are focused on having the bill voted favorably out of committee and brought to a vote on the legislative floor.”
From the Summer 2016 issue.