Background
Woodlock, Douglas Preston was born on February 27, 1947 in Hartford, Connecticut, United States. Son of Preston and Kathryn (Ropp) Woodlock.
Woodlock, Douglas Preston was born on February 27, 1947 in Hartford, Connecticut, United States. Son of Preston and Kathryn (Ropp) Woodlock.
Bachelor, Yale University, 1969. Juris Doctor, Georgetown University, 1975.
He was a law clerk, Honorary Frank J. Murray, United States. District Court, District of Massachusetts from 1975 to 1976. He was in private practice in Boston, Massachusetts from 1976 to 1979.
He was a Chairman, Board of Appeals for the Town of Hamilton, Massachusetts from 1978 to 1979.
He was an assistant United States. Attorney of the District of Massachusetts from 1979 to 1983. He was an Instructor, Harvard Law School, 1980 in 1981.
He was in private practice in Boston, Massachusetts from 1983 to 1986. He was a Chairman, Massachusetts Committee for Public Counsel Services from 1984 to 1986.
Woodlock is a federal judge on the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts.
Woodlock was nominated by President Ronald Reagan on April 22, 1986, to a seat vacated by West. Arthur Garrity, Junior. He was confirmed by the United States Senate on June 13, 1986, and received his commission on June 16, 1986. He assumed senior status on June 1, 2015.
In 2008, Woodlock issued a Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) in the case of Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority v.
Anderson, et al., Civil Action Number. 08-11364, preventing four Massachusetts Institute of Technology students from revealing weaknesses in the MBTA"s "Charlie Card" fare system.
This was widely viewed as unconstitutional prior restraint of the students free speech and Woodlock did not renew the TRO when it expired.
Member American Bar Association, Mass.Bar Association, Boston Bar Association, American Law Institute, American Judicature Society, Am.Bar Foundation, Federal Judges Association (board directors 1996), Massachusetts History Society.
Married Patricia Mathilde Powers, August 30, 1969. Children: Pamela, Benjamin.