Chambers was a Rhode Island resident with Cassandra Ormiston for at least two years before their 2004 marriage and continued to reside in Rhode Island after the ceremony. Her documented professional connection to Massachusetts includes admission to the state bar in 1983 and later corporate legal work in Boston.
Chambers was admitted to practice law in Massachusetts in 1983. She subsequently worked as a lawyer and partner in private practice, as reflected in the existing biographical record. By 2009 she was serving as general counsel of Boston Private Financial Holdings, Inc.; later directories identified her as the company's executive vice president, general counsel, and corporate secretary. Her public profile also includes her role as plaintiff in Chambers v. Ormiston, a case arising from her effort to obtain a Rhode Island divorce from a same-sex marriage solemnized in Fall River, Massachusetts, on May 26, 2004. She filed for divorce in Rhode Island in October 2006, and the Rhode Island Supreme Court issued its decision in 2007.
Chambers married Cassandra Ormiston in Fall River, Massachusetts, on May 26, 2004. The couple returned to Rhode Island, where they had been residents, and later sought to dissolve the marriage there. Chambers filed a divorce petition in October 2006; the resulting litigation became Chambers v. Ormiston, in which the Rhode Island Supreme Court considered whether the state's Family Court could entertain a divorce petition involving a same-sex marriage performed in another state.
