Career
Bernstein received her Bachelor of Arts magna cum laude from Wellesley College in 1984, after spending her junior year at the University of California, Berkeley and she received her Juris Doctor cum laude from Harvard Law School in 1994. she served as a law clerk to the Honorable Douglas P. Woodlock of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts from 1994 to 1995. On July 30, 2015, President Obama nominated Bernstein to serve as a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts, to the seat vacated by Judge Douglas P. Woodlock, who assumed senior status on June 1, 2015. Her nomination is currently pending before the Senate Judiciary Committee.
