Judge Darrell L. Outlaw

Judge Darrell L. Outlaw was recently elected president of the New England School of Law corporation, the governing authority for all matters concerning the law school, including electing members to the board of trustees. He is the first African American to hold that position.

A member of the school’s board of trustees for 24 years and of the corporation since 1992, Outlaw has most recently served as treasurer of the corporation.

Born in Hyde Park and educated in the Boston Public Schools, Outlaw was one of four children of Rev. and Mrs. Guy T. Outlaw. He served in the United States Air Force from 1943 to 1946.

Outlaw received bachelor’s and master’s degrees in education from Suffolk University. He taught in the Boston Public Schools for eight years and worked for the state Division of Youth Services at the Roslindale Reception Center and at the Shirley Industrial School for Boys before earning his law degree from New England School of Law in 1961.

As a member of the probation staff of the Suffolk Superior Court, he established the first program of its kind for drug- and alcohol-dependent probationers. In 1980, he was appointed chairman of the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination.

In 1981, Gov. Edward J. King appointed Outlaw as an associate justice of the Dorchester District Court, where he served for 12 years before retiring from the bench in 1993 under the Commonwealth’s mandatory retirement law. He now engages in the practice of law specializing in mediation, arbitration and mental health.