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Marshall was born in in 1964 and attended Harvard University and Yale Law School . From 1976-1989, she was an associate and a partner in private practice at the Boston law firm of Csaplar & Bok. From 1989-1992, she was a partner in the Boston law firm of Choate, Hall & Stewart. Also from 1991-1992, she was President of the Boston Bar Association , the oldest bar association in the United States. From 1992-1996, she was General Counsel to Harvard University. Marshall was appointed to be an Associate Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court in 1996 by Republican Governor William F. Weld . She was named as Chief Justice in September, 1999 by Republican Governor Paul Cellucci , to begin her term on October 14 , 1999 . She is the second woman to serve on the Supreme Judicial Court, the oldest appellate court in the Western Hemisphere, and the first to serve as Chief Justice in its more than 300 year history. In the course of her term, she has written over 100 opinions. Marshall wrote the controversial decision in '' Goodridge V. Department Of Public Health '' that declared that Massachusetts Constitution did not permit the state to deny citizens the right to Same-sex Marriage . That decision was made by a 4-3 vote of the justices. A group named the Article 8 Alliance has been formed to seek the ouster of all four justices that concurred in that decision. As there is no recall process under Massachusetts law, and there is little support for this in the Massachusetts legislature, it is unlikely that any of the justices targeted by the Article 8 Alliance will be ousted. In 1984, she married former '' New York Times '' columnist Anthony Lewis . It was her second marriage. EXTERNAL LINKS REFERENCES
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