On Sunday, November 21, the Lenox Library will host a lecture by the Honorable John Agostini, Associate Justice, Commonwealth of Massachusetts Superior Court. It is the third lecture in the Library’s Distinguished Lecture series. The lecture will take place in the Sedgwick Reading Room from 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm.
Judge Agostini grew up in Williamstown and attended Williams College, where he majored in physics and astronomy and played football for the varsity team. After attending law school, he returned to Berkshire County and worked in the Berkshire County District Attorney’s Office from 1979-82.
In 1982, Judge Agostini began a 20-year affiliation with the law firm of Cain Hibbard, where he practiced civil litigation. At the comparatively young age of 45, he was elected a member of the prestigious American College of Trial Lawyers. He is one of only two members in Berkshire County and only 130 in the whole of Massachusetts.
In 2002 he was appointed a superior court judge for Berkshire County in the State House in Boston by the Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The following year he was presented with the Faith Scarborough Award for “demonstrated integrity, excellence, and dedication in community service” to the town of Williamstown.
Judge Agostini’s presentation at the Lenox Library is the third of the 2010-11 Distinguished Lecture series. All programs in this series are free and open to the public thanks to donor contributions.
The Distinguished Lecture series is organized and hosted by Professor Jeremy Yudkin of Lenox. Lectures are held monthly in the Lenox Library Association’s Sedgwick Reading Room at 18 Main Street Lenox, MA. No reservations are required. For information about future lectures in the series, please visit the Library’s “Calendar of Events” at www.lenoxlib.org .