Healey nominates three for BMC judgeships

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Gov. Maura T. Healey filed three new nominations to the Boston Municipal Court bench on March 20, tabbing a pair of attorneys and an assistant clerk-magistrate for judgeships.

Healey nominated Rebeca Figueroa, Steven Kim and Vanessa Vélez to as BMC judges, according to paperwork she filed with the Governor’s Council.

Figueroa is already a part of the judiciary. Since September 2017, she has been assistant clerk-magistrate in Suffolk Superior Court, according to a copy of her resume included alongside the nomination.

Previously, Figueroa spent nearly 12 years running her own law practice focused on family law, criminal defense, and real estate, and she also was a staff attorney at the Committee for Public Counsel Services.

Kim for the last 19 years has been the principal attorney at his own firm, which was formerly McLaughlin & Kim, according to his resume.

He is a former Suffolk County prosecutor who also served in the U.S. Army’s Judge Advocate General Corp, where his responsibilities included representing the country in cases dealing with captured and detained combatants and insurgents.

Vélez is a longtime attorney at CPCS, where she has held various titles since 2011, including deputy chief counsel of the Private Counsel Division and attorney in charge for the Boston District and Municipal Court Office.

The Governor’s Council, whose next assembly is scheduled for March 27, had yet to schedule hearings for the nominees as of March 20.