Sabita Singh is an American lawyer and Judge of the

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. On Oct. 25, 2006, the then Republican Massachusetts Governor

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nominated Singh to be Judge of the Concord District Court. Her nomination was confirmed on November 15 by the eight-man Governor's Council. She was succeeded by Tejal R. Mehta in February 2018. In May 2017, Republican governor

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nominated Singh to the Massachusetts Appeals Court and she was unanimously confirmed as an associate justice by the Governor's Council on June 21, 2017. Born in Bihar, Singh came to the US as a child with her family and was brought up in Pennsylvania. She is an alumna of

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, where she received her Bachelor's Degree in the Administration of Justice in 1987, and of

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, where she received her J.D. degree in 1990. Singh worked an attorney specializing in white collar criminal defense and business regulation in the White Collar Crime and Business Regulation Group at

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LLP. She served as Assistant District Attorney for Middlesex County, and then as a Special Counsel for Criminal Rights Enforcement in the Office of the U.S. Attorney in

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. As a prosecutor for the U.S. Attorney's office, she focused on human trafficking cases. Sabita Singh is a Past President of the North American South Asian Bar Association ("NASABA"), an organization of attorneys in the U.S. and Canada who originate from

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and other nations on the

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Interview with Sabita Singh

Video of Singh at awards party

Harvard Law Bulletin, 2011
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