E Macey Russell

E. Macey Russell is a partner at Choate Hall & Stewart LLP, where he practices in the area of major commercial litigation and co-chairs the firm’s Diversity Committee. In 2011, Russell was appointed chair of the Massachusetts Judicial Nominating Commission. He is a member of The Fellows of the American Bar Foundation, co-chair of the steering committee on the Boston Bar Association’s Diversity and Inclusion Section, and serves on the executive committee of the Boston Lawyers Group. Russell is a member of the dean’s advisory committee for Suffolk University Law School. His honors and awards include: the 2011 Burton Award for Exceptional Legal Writing from The Burton Foundation and the Library of Congress for his co-authored article “Developing Great Minority Lawyers for the Next Generation.” In 2009, he was named “Diversity Hero” by Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly and was designated a member of the Trial Lawyer Honorary Society of the Litigation Counsel of America. He is president, director, and founder of The Boston Leadership Development Foundation Inc. and founder, president, and chairperson of The Reaching Back Foundation Inc. of Boston. Russell received a JD from Suffolk University Law School in 1983 and a BA from Trinity College.