Douglas Preston Woodlock

Douglas Preston Woodlock (born February 27, 1947) is a United States federal judge of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts. Born in Connecticut, Woodlock graduated from Yale College and worked as a journalist before attending Georgetown University Law Center. After graduating, Woodlock was a lawyer in private practice at the law firm of Goodwin, Procter & Hoar, and had stints at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Massachusetts. Appointed to the federal bench in 1986, Woodlock presided over a number of noteworthy cases and was a key figure in the construction of the John Joseph Moakley United States Courthouse on the Boston waterfront. He assumed senior status in 2015. Early life and education Woodlock was born in Hartford, Connecticut, on February 27, 1947. His family moved to the Chicago suburb of La Grange, Illinois, where Woodlock spent the first two years of high school. He spent his last two years of high school at Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts. Woodlock received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Yale College in 1969, where he was a member of Skull and Bones, and vice chairman of the Yale Daily News. He began his career in journalism as an intern at the Chicago Daily News, covering the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago. Woodlock then became a reporter at the Chicago Sun-Times from 1969 to 1973, where he worked in Chicago and Springfield, Illinois, before moving to the Sun-Timess Washington Bureau in 1971–1973, where he covered the Supreme Court. Woodlock then attended Georgetown University Law Center, where he was a member of The Georgetown Law Journal. He earned his J.D. in 1975. Legal career Woodlock worked in the Office of Chief Counsel for the Division of Corporation Finance at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission from 1973 to 1975 and was a law clerk for Judge Frank Jerome Murray of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts from 1975 to 1976.