Janis M. Berry is an American jurist who served as an associate justice of the Massachusetts Appeals Court from 2001 to 2016.
Her father was a dump truck driver and her mother worked as a factory meat packer.
[1] In the mid-1970s she served as law clerk to Edward F. Hennessey, an associate justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court.
[2][3] She later served for six years as a federal prosecutor, which included working as Chief of the U.S. Justice Department's New England Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force.
[7] In December 2000 she was nominated by Governor Paul Cellucci to serve on the Massachusetts Appeals Court.