Professor David Breen (’90) Nominated to Boston Municipal Court

Congratulations are in order for David Breen, associate clinical professor, who on October 7 was nominated by Governor Deval Patrick to the Boston Municipal Court’s Central Division. Confirmation hearings have not yet been scheduled. Professor Breen was tapped to fill the seat on the Boston Municipal Court currently held by Judge Raymond Dougan (’71), a former supervising attorney in the BU Law Criminal Law Clinic defender program. Mark Mason (’84), a former BU Law defender, was also appointed by the governor to the Superior Court.

Professor Breen has been a member of the faculty since 2005 after returning to BU in 2003 to teach full-time as a visitor. He graduated from BU Law in 1990 serving as President of the Student Bar Association, Editor of the American Journal of Law & Medicine and as a member of the follies for three years. Professor Breen has supervised more than 800 cases in Quincy District Court over the past 10 years, including over 30 bench and jury trials prosecuted by law students in the Criminal Clinic. He also has conducted more than 100 practice interviews for students applying for prosecutor positions in DA’s offices around the country. Five to ten graduating students are hired annually in DA and Public Defender’s offices around the country.

Professor Breen created and teaches a seminar every year in Prosecutorial Ethics. He has also been an adjunct professor at the BU School of Medicine where he developed the criminal law component for the Master’s Degree in the Biomedical Forensics Science Program and taught there from 2006 to 2014. He has been an active member of both the Boston University community and the legal community in the greater Boston area. He was recently was appointed to the University Committee on Child Care and the Supreme Judicial Court Committee on Voir Dire. Professor Breen was awarded the Public Interest Project’s Faculty Service Award in 2014.