Herbert Putnam Wilkins (born January 10, 1930)[1] is an American jurist who served as chief justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court from 1996 to 1999, a position his father, Raymond Sanger Wilkins, held from 1956 to 1970.
He joined the law firm of Palmer and Dodge.
[2][failed verification] He had the longest tenure of any Associate Justice of the Court (from 1972) when he was nominated Chief Judge by Governor William Weld on July 16, 1996.
[4] Since retiring from the court, Justice Wilkins has taught at Boston College Law School.
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