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Judith N. Cowan

Judith N. Cowan was born in Amityville, New York, on March 9, 1953. She received her B.A. in Psychology and minor in Education from Barnard College in 1975, where she graduated magna cum laude with honors in Psychology, and her J.D. from New York University in 1980. She was admitted to the New York bar in 1981 and to the Massachusetts bar in 1990. Attorney Cowan worked in New York at the Legal Aid Society Prisoners' Rights Division, the Parole Revocation Unit and the Criminal Defense Division from 1978 to 1988, and for the Committee for Public Counsel Services in Massachusetts from 1990 to 1993. She was on the Bargaining Committee for the Union of Legal Aid Society Lawyers in New York from 1981 to 1988, where she negotiated with management and assisted in the drafting of contracts for six hundred lawyers. From 1993 to 2002, she was an associate with the law firm Metaxas, Norman & Pidgeon, where she specialized in family law, criminal defense and special education appeals. From 2002 to 2008 Attorney Cowan was associated with the firm of Legasey & Associates, P.C. in Salem, Massachusetts, where she specialized in all aspects of family law. Attorney Cowan joined The Law Firm of Merril S. Chin in 2008, where she continues to practice family law and mediation. Her personal philosophy focuses on the concept that family law cases are not about winning and losing, but are family problems that can and should be resolved.

Attorney Cowan has taught numerous MCLE seminars, and is now a regular on the Trying Divorce Cases faculty. Earlier in her career, Attorney Cowan taught at the Women's Prison Project at the Bedford Hills Correctional Facility in New York in the late 1970's, and also served on the Rape and Sexual Assault Advisory Committee to the Judicial Training Institute of the Trial Courts of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts from 1998 to 1999.