Henry Clay comes to the Law School from the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, where he served as Chief Staff Counsel since 1990. Prior to that appointment he served as Senior Staff Counsel and Staff Attorney. In addition to his duties at the SJC, Clay served as an adjunct faculty member at Suffolk University Law School. He also served as adjunct faculty at Massachusetts School of Law from 1991-1995.

Prior to his service at the SJC, Clay has been in private practice with the firm Parks, Carroll, Sullivan and Clay, and worked as Minority Counsel for the Senate Ways and Means Committee. He has served as Counsel for the Executive Office for Administration and Finance, and on the Executive Staff for Governor Francis W Sargent. He also served in the United States Army Signal Corps from 1967-1969, with an Honorable Discharge as Captain.

Among numerous professional and community activities, Clay has been a mentor in the Boston Partners in Education program and a tutor in the Boston Adult Learning Center, and also served on the Community Services Committee of the Mass. Bar Association from 1993-1998. He was Associate Editor of the Massachusetts Law Review from 1982-1992, and served as Chair of the Committee of Appellate Staff Attorneys in the Judicial Administration Division of the American Bar Association. He was recently appointed as a member of the Massachusetts Bar Committee on Judicial Independence.

EDUCATION

A.B., Darmouth College; L.L.B., Boston University.

COURSES

Fall '08: No courses taught
Spring '09: No courses taught

• "Allocating the Appellate Caseload," Appellate Practice in Massachusetts.
• "The Supreme Judicial Court: Liberty and Community, " Supreme Judicial Court 1692-1992 (a Mass Lawyer’s Weekly Special Section, 1992).