Biography
Cordy graduated from Dartmouth College in 1971 and Harvard Law School in 1974. After graduation,Cordy served as a defense attorney on the Massachusetts Defenders Committee. From 1978 to 1979,he served as a Special Assistant Attorney General in the Department of Revenue,and then in 1979 he became an Associate General Council on the State Ethics Commission. In 1982,Cordy was appointed a federal prosecutor and eventually became Chief of the Public Corruption Unit.
From 1987 to 1991,he was a partner at Burns &Levinson. From 1991 to 1993,he served as Chief Legal Counsel to Governor William Weld. In 1993,Cordy became a partner at McDermott,Will &Emery in 1993,working there until his appointment to the Supreme Judicial Court in 2001. [2] [3] In July 2016,Cordy wrote for the unanimous court when it upheld the manslaughter indictment of a teenage girl for text messages that caused the death of Conrad Roy. [4] [5] He retired from the Court on August 12,2016 to return to private practice.
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