Douglas P. Woodlock

Douglas P. Woodlock, U.S. District Court Judge for the District of Massachusetts since 1986, was Chairman of the New Boston Federal Courthouse Building Committee supervising on behalf of the courts the ten-year project for the new John Joseph Moakley U.S. Courthouse which opened in the fall of 1998. Appointed a charter member of the Security, Space and Facilities Committee of the Judicial Conference of the United States by Chief Justice Rehnquist in 1987 and serving on that Committee until 1995, Judge Woodlock was directly involved in fashioning the federal courts' national design and construction program. In 1996 he received the Thomas Jefferson Award for Public Architecture from the American Institute of Architects for his work supporting design excellence in civic buildings throughout the country.