Rya Weickert Zobel (born December 18, 1931) is a Senior United States District Court Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts.
Career output and lasting influence
Opinions attributed per year · peak 1/year
Later decisions citing those opinions, per year · peak 6/year
Massachusetts District Court · 1979–Massachusetts District Court · 1979–2014
Both charts share the same year axis. Opinion counts include only opinions in our corpus attributed to this judge so far — a year at zero can mean an attribution gap, not judicial silence. Influence typically outlasts the career: citations keep climbing after the last opinion.
- Gender
- Female
- Race
- White
Prior employment
Director · 1995–1999- Private practice, Boston, Massachusetts1967–1979
Law clerk , Hon. George C. Sweeney · 1956–1966
Appointments
- 1979–2014 · Appointed by Jimmy Carter (Democratic)
1979–2014
Education
LL.B. · 1956- Radcliffe CollegeA.B. · 1953