Lyons and Tigers and Bears

Dermot Meagher is the author of Judge Sentences/ Tales from the Bench, a series of stories about his experiences as a trial judge. With Robert Coles, M.D. and Joseph Brenner, M.D. he is a coauthor of Drugs and Youth. Dermot Meagher was a judge of the Trial Court of Massachusetts for seventeen years. He sat in the legendary Boston Municipal Court, the oldest trial court in Massachusetts. He was the first openly gay judge in Massachusets. Before being a judge he investigated and prosecuted lawyers, was a court and bail reformer, an Assistant District Attorney, a Fellow in Criminal Justice at Harvard Law School and taught Criminal and Constitutional Law and Procedure to police officers. He retired as a judge in August, 2006.