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# Robert J. Cordy

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Judge

## Profile

- Court: Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
- State: Massachusetts
- Role: Judge
- Service status: former
- Last verified: 2026-08-22

## Summary

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

## Biography

### Professional career

- Judge, Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, 2001-present
- Associate Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court from 2001 to 2016, appointed by Governor Paul Cellucci and succeeded by David A. Lowy
- He has also engaged in international judicial ethics work and held the role of a law school professor

### Education

- Harvard Law School in — J.D. (1974)
- Cordy graduated from Dartmouth College in 1971
- Dartmouth College — B.A.
- Harvard University — J.D.

### Additional information

- Joined the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court in 2001 and served until his retirement on August 12, 2016.
- Practitioner, 2000-2000
- legis, 2000-2000
- Born May 18, 1949.
- Date of birth: 1949-05-18
- After retiring, Cordy returned to private practice at McDermott Will & Emery
- focusing on business litigation, white-collar defense, appellate work, and major public/private projects.

## 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/4722/robert-j-cordy/)
- [Official roster](https://www.courtlistener.com/person/4722/robert-j-cordy/)
- [Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court current judicial profile](https://www.courtlistener.com/person/4722/robert-j-cordy/)
- [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/4722/robert-j-cordy/)
- [Robert Cordy - Ballotpedia](https://ballotpedia.org/Robert_Cordy)
- [Robert Cordy Named Distinguished Rappaport Professor – Boston College Law School Magazine](https://lawmagazine.bc.edu/2018/07/robert-cordy-named-distinguished-rappaport-professor)
- [Wikidata: Robert J. Cordy](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7345854)

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