Gene Dahmen

7-gene-dahmenGene Dahmen is Senior Counsel at Verrill Dana LLP in Boston where she practices in the field of family law. A graduate of the University of Virginia Law School, Gene was the first woman president of both the BBA and the UVA Law School Alumni Association. She has also served on the boards of numerous other law-related entities, including MCLE (which she chaired), the Boston Bar Foundation, Massachusetts Legal Assistance Corporation, Lawyers Concerned for Lawyers, and the UVA Law School Foundation.

She was a member of the first Court Management Advisory Board, appointed by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court to assist with judicial reform in the Trial Court and served on the Joint Bar Association Advisory Committee on Alimony Reform. She has co-chaired the MCLE Family Law Conference for the past eleven years and was recognized as a MCLE Mentor Scholar in 2015. Deeply involved in education and the arts, Gene is a life trustee of the New England Conservatory, a governor of the Longy School of Music, an overseer of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and an overseer of the Boston Landmarks Orchestra.

As an Access to Justice Fellow, Gene will work with Discovering Justice, the K-8 civic education program founded by the BBA, now housed in the Moakley Courthouse. She, together with Access to Justice Fellow Marilyn Ray Smith, will help Discovering Justice expand its relationships with key Boston area legal institutions, foster collaborations with other non-profit organizations with an educational mission, and build its volunteer base. They will participate in Discovering Justice’s Courthouse initiatives, add support to its classroom based programs (with a particular emphasis on Bridge Boston Charter School with which Gene has an affiliation), and assist with marketing and fundraising strategies.