Word: council
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...campaign platform was raising awareness of domestic violence and invigorating the council's role in judicial nominations...
...highest-profile issues while on the council was commuting the life sentences of two members of the Framingham Eight, a group of women who had been found guilty of murdering their abusive husbands...
...also opened Governor's Council meetings to the public--the council is the only governmental body exempted from Massachusetts's open public meeting...
...influence was seen in the increase in female judges, too--by the time she left the council in 1999, almost half the judges in the superior court were women, according...
...time she left, the council itself had also achieved gender parity, with four male and four female members...