Allan van Gestel is a retired American judge, who served as an associate justice of the Superior Court of Suffolk County, Massachusetts, located in Boston.
In 1996, Governor William F. Weld appointed Allan van Gestel as a judge to the Superior Court of Suffolk County, located in Boston, Massachusetts.
[1] In 2015, van Gestel received the American College of Trial Lawyers Samuel E. Gates Litigation Award.
[14][15] In 2006, van Gestel received the Haskell Cohn Award for Distinguished Justice from the Boston Bar Association.
[1] He is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, and was Chairman of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Standing Advisory Committee on the Rules of Civil Procedure from 1986 to 1993.