Dave Deakin

DAVID A. DEAKIN is an associate justice of the Massachusetts Superior Court. Before taking the bench in 2019, Judge Deakin was deputy chief and acting chief of the Criminal Bureau in the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office. For more than twenty years before that, he was an assistant district attorney in the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office. Deakin led the Child Abuse Unit from 1998 until 2004, when he assumed leadership of the Family Protection and Sexual Assault Bureau. Before joining the Suffolk District Attorney’s Office, Deakin worked as a prosecutor in the Norfolk County District Attorney’s Office from 1992-1996. After graduating from the Harvard Law School in 1991, Deakin clerked for the late Justice Ruth I. Abrams of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court.