Vieri Guy Volterra ’54

Vieri Guy Volterra ’54, of Boston; Nov. 16. After serving in the U.S. Army during the Korean War and graduating from Boston Univ. School of Law, he started an independent law practice in New Bedford, Mass., where he went from criminal defense attorney to public defender, assistant district attorney, and finally counsel to the mayor. For the next 27 years he was a Massachusetts judge in the Taunton District Court first, and then for 20 years with the Massachusetts Superior Court. After retiring from the court, he joined his brother’s law partnership and set up an independent neutral mediation practice. In 2009 he left the practice and joined Senior Partners for Justice/Volunteer Lawyers Project of the Massachusetts Bar Assoc. to represent indigent civil litigants in family law disputes. He was vitally engaged in issues of oppression and conflict in the U.S. and internationally. In 2002 he received the Law and Justice Award from the Commission for Social Justice, Sons of Italy in America, and in 2012 he received the Victor J. Garo Public Service Award from the B.U. School of Law. He enjoyed reading and is survived by his wife, Melanie; two children; a grandson; a brother, Max ’57; a sister-in-law; a niece and a nephew.