Paul Reardon

Born in Quincy, Massachusetts to Dr. Daniel B. Reardon and Mary Cashman Reardon, Reardon attended Quincy High School where he was "the premier debater on the Quincy team". Reardon spent a year at Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, before entering Harvard College, from which he received a B.A., cum laude, in 1932. He received his J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1935, and entered the practice of law with a Massachusetts firm that year. In 1939, Reardon started his own practice and married Ann Leich. Reardon joined the United States Navy during World War II, achieving the rank of Lieutenant. Following the war he again practiced with a firm until 1953, when he was appointed as Counsel to Governor Christian Herter. ==Judicial service==

In 1955, Herter appointed Reardon Chief Justice of the Massachusetts Superior Court, and in 1957 Reardon was instrumental in establishing the National Conference of State Trial Judges, which facilitated communication between judges of different states on strategies for handling the common problem of congested dockets and backlogged cases. holding that despite imperfections in a plan to achieve racial desegregation of Boston's schools, the board carrying out this effort had acted within its authority to impose various rules towards this effort. ==Personal life and death==

Reardon and his wife, Ann, were married for 49 years, until his death. They had two sons and two daughters. ==References==