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# Ariane Vuono

Massachusetts Appeals Court · Judge

## Profile

- Court: Massachusetts Appeals Court
- State: Massachusetts
- Role: Judge
- Service status: active
- Last verified: 2026-06-30

## Summary

Official statewide and applicable court procedural guidance applies to this judge.

## Biography

### Professional career

- Associate Justice, Massachusetts Appeals Court (2006–present)
- Ariane D. Vuono is an Associate Justice of the Massachusetts Appeals Court, appointed in 2006 by Governor Mitt Romney, with a career in public service spanning law clerking, district attorney work, and federal prosecution
- 1988–1995: Chief, Appellate Section, District Attorney’s Office for the Northwestern District
- Listed among the current associate justices on the Massachusetts Court System’s official site

### Education

- University of Connecticut School of Law — J.D. (1984)
- in Italian Literature — Middlebury College — M.A. (1981)

### Additional information

- She has also held the role of adjunct faculty at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Mount Holyoke College, and Western New England School of Law, and has lectured at numerous MCLE programs

## Before you appear

- Read the judge-specific standing order first when one is listed.
- Check the docket and case orders for requirements that supersede broader guidance.
- Confirm current remote-access and courtroom technology arrangements before the proceeding.

## Courtroom Rules

### recording and photography

Scope: statewide

In Massachusetts courts, photography, recording, or electronic transmission in a courtroom or related judicial space requires prior authorization from the judge or magistrate supervising that place, subject to Rule 1:19's separate provisions for registered news media.

Evidence excerpt: No person shall take any photographs, or make any recording or transmission by electronic means, in any courtroom, hearing room, office, chambers or lobby of a judge or magistrate without prior authorization

[Supreme Judicial Court Rule 1:19: Electronic access to the courts](https://www.mass.gov/supreme-judicial-court-rules/supreme-judicial-court-rule-119-electronic-access-to-the-courts)
Source checked: 2026-07-26


## Sources

- [Official profile](https://www.courtlistener.com/person/7517/ariane-vuono/)
- [Official roster](https://www.courtlistener.com/person/7517/ariane-vuono/)
- [Massachusetts Appeals Court current judicial profile](https://www.courtlistener.com/person/7517/ariane-vuono/)
- [Supreme Judicial Court Rule 1:19: Electronic access to the courts](https://www.mass.gov/supreme-judicial-court-rules/supreme-judicial-court-rule-119-electronic-access-to-the-courts)
- [CourtListener judicial biographical directory](https://www.courtlistener.com/person/7517/ariane-vuono/)

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## Published courtroom rules

### Shared court rules

- [Supreme Judicial Court Rule 1:19: Electronic access to the courts](https://knowjudges.com/courtroom-rules/national-shared-set-20acbd9da185f40e1f10b2b2) — Scope is limited to the court class in the source claim.  Shared court context only; case-type restrictions, exceptions, later amendments and case orders apply. This is not a personal preference or a complete rules inventory. [Official source](https://www.mass.gov/supreme-judicial-court-rules/supreme-judicial-court-rule-119-electronic-access-to-the-courts). Collected 2026-07-26.