Education
Cooper completed a Bachelor of Arts degree at Middlebury College in 1985. Middlebury is a private liberal arts college in Middlebury, Vermont, whose undergraduate education combines the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences within a small-college setting.
She then studied at Suffolk Law School in Boston, where she earned a Juris Doctor in 1989. Founded in 1906, the school is now known as Suffolk University Law School and is an ABA-approved law school located in Boston, Massachusetts. Its Boston location placed her legal education within the city's courts and legal community, and the juris doctor preceded her admission to the Massachusetts bar in 1989. Admission to the Massachusetts bar was administered through the state's Board of Bar Examiners, which conducts the bar examination for prospective practitioners.
