One Appointee is Healey’s Own Deputy Legal Counsel
Gov. Maura Healey on Wednesday nominated three new Superior Court candidates, including a couple of State House insiders.
Healey tapped her own deputy legal counsel, Adam Hornstine, for a judgeship, along with Sarah Kim, who works as general counsel to Treasurer Deborah Goldberg.
The governor also nominated Ira Gant, a forensic services director at the Committee for Public Counsel Services.
Hornstine, a Harvard Law graduate, followed Healey to the corner office from the attorney general’s office, where he was managing attorney in the Constitutional and Administrative Law Division. He also worked at WilmerHale, a firm where Healey previously practiced.
Kim has been Goldberg’s general counsel in the Treasury since 2015, with a short gap in the middle of 2022 when she was the Cannabis Control Commission’s interim chair. A Villanova Law graduate, she worked from 2014 to 2015 in the Fraud and Financial Crimes Division of the Attorney General’s Office.
Grant, a Northeastern Law alumnus, has been with CPCS since 2009, first as an intern, then a trial attorney, staff counsel, and now as forensic services director overseeing forensic litigation support.
