Advisory Board

Jean MacCormack
UMass Dartmouth Chancellor Emerita (board chair)

Ann Maguire Keches
UMass System Board of Trustees and Founder of Keches Law Group Medical Malpractice Department

Hon. Phillip Rapoza (Ret.)
Former Chief Justice of the Massachusetts Appeals Court and former trial judge of the Massachusetts District and Superior Courts. Former international judge on both the Supreme Court Chamber of the Khmer Rouge tribunal in Cambodia and the Special Panels for Serious Crimes in East Timor

(Rt) US Ambassador Robert Sherman
Former US Ambassador to Portugal and Senior Counsel at Greenberg Traurig

Jim Karam
Chairman and Founder of First Bristol Corporation

Rontear Pendleton
Deputy Attorney General at the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office and Adjunct Professor at UMass Law

Joe Nauman
Former General Counsel at Acushnet Holdings

Shayla Mombeleur JD '17
Associate at Todd & Weld and Secretary of the Massachusetts Bar Association

Joe DeMedeiros BA '99, MBA '08
Partner at Locke Lord

Catherine Summa JD '23
Associate at Nelson Mullins

Lou Ricciardi
President and CEO of Bristol Wealth Group/Raymond James Financial

Tom Quinn
Bristol County District Attorney (ex officio)

Jeff Medeiros
President of Bristol County Bar Association (ex officio)