Navjeet K. Bal is an American lawyer at

Nixon Peabody Nixon Peabody LLP is a Global 100 Boston-based law firm with more than 700 attorneys collaborating across major practice areas in cities across the U.S. and in international offices in London, Hong Kong, and Shanghai. In addition to the firm ...

’s Public Finance group, and was the second woman to be appointed Commissioner of Revenue of

Massachusetts Massachusetts (Massachusett language, Massachusett: ''Muhsachuweesut assachusett writing systems, məhswatʃəwiːsət'' English: , ), officially the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, is the most populous U.S. state, state in the New England ...

state where she served from 2008 to 2013. She is the first minority and first south Asian to hold the position of commissioner in the state. She is a graduate from

Williams College Williams College is a private liberal arts college in Williamstown, Massachusetts. It was established as a men's college in 1793 with funds from the estate of Ephraim Williams, a colonist from the Province of Massachusetts Bay who was kille ...

and

Northeastern University School of Law Northeastern University School of Law (NUSL) is the law school of Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts. Founded as an evening program to meet the needs of its local community, NUSL is nationally recognized for its cooperative legal ed ...

, and served for seventeen years as public finance attorney prior to being appointed Commissioner. Before her time at the Department of Revenue, Bal founded Mintz Levin's Domestic Violence Project in 1990, and is a board member and former chairperson of the Legal Advocacy and Resource Center in Boston. She has also served on the executive committee for the Massachusetts state planning committee for the delivery of legal services.

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