KELLEY, M. PAGE

Judicial Biography

Born:

Louisville, Kentucky 1959

Year appointed/elected:

June 16, 2014, by Judges of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Background

Education:

Harvard Law School – J.D. 1986

Smith College – B.A. 1981

Professional

Legal Employment History:

Kelley spent her career representing indigent defendants. She served as Assistant Federal Public Defender in the Boston office of the Federal Public Defender Office from 2004 until she joined the bench. While serving in the Boston office, she represented defendants throughout the Commonwealth. She was an active participant in the court’s re-entry program, Care
and Restart, from 2009 through 2013.

Kelley served as a CJA Attorney for two years prior to her appointment as an Assistant
Federal Public Defender. Before that, she served as an Attorney-in-Charge with the Massachusetts
Committee for Public Counsel Services representing indigent defendants in state court. She was a state
public defender for fourteen years.