MBLA
Massachusetts Black Lawyers Association
PRESIDENT
DOUGLAS MARTIN, Esq.
Principal
Law Office of Douglas Martin
Email: Douglas.Martinlawpc@verizon.
net
PRESIDENT-ELECT
DAMIAN W. WILMOT, Esq.
Associate
Goodwin Procter
LLP
Email: dwilmot@goodwinprocter.com
VICE PRESIDENT
DOMINIC BLUE, Esq.
Associate
Edwards, Angell, Palmer & Dodge, LLP
Email: dblue@eapdlaw.com
SECRETARY
KEEANA SAXON, Esq.
Attorney
Massachusetts Department of Housing
and Community Development
TREASURER
DONALD LaROCHE, Esq.
Judicial Law Clerk
U.S. District Court for District of
Massachusetts
IMMEDIATE PAST
PRESIDENT
DAMON HART, Esq.
Partner
Holland & Knight, LLP
10 St. James Place, 11th Floor
Boston, MA 02116
Email: damon.hart@hklaw.com
PAST PRESIDENT
NIKIKI T. BOGLE, Esq.
Managing Partner
Bogle & Okoye, LLC
Email: ntb@boslegal.com
PAST PRESIDENT
ANGELA McCONNEY, Esq.
General Counsel
Massachusetts Civil Service
Commission
Email: angela.mcconney@state.ma.us
DIRECTOR
Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights
Representative
OGOR WINNIE OKOYE, Esq.
Managing Partner
Bogle & Okoye, LLC
Email: owo@boslegal.com
DIRECTOR
ROBERT COOPER, Esq.
Vice President/Senior Counsel
OneUnited Bank
DIRECTOR
ANTINUKE DIVER Esq.
Attorney
DOUGLAS MARTIN, Esq.
Principal
Law Office of Douglas Martin
Email: Douglas.Martinlawpc@verizon.
net
PRESIDENT-ELECT
DAMIAN W. WILMOT, Esq.
Associate
Goodwin Procter
LLP
Email: dwilmot@goodwinprocter.com
VICE PRESIDENT
DOMINIC BLUE, Esq.
Associate
Edwards, Angell, Palmer & Dodge, LLP
Email: dblue@eapdlaw.com
SECRETARY
KEEANA SAXON, Esq.
Attorney
Massachusetts Department of Housing
and Community Development
TREASURER
DONALD LaROCHE, Esq.
Judicial Law Clerk
U.S. District Court for District of
Massachusetts
IMMEDIATE PAST
PRESIDENT
DAMON HART, Esq.
Partner
Holland & Knight, LLP
10 St. James Place, 11th Floor
Boston, MA 02116
Email: damon.hart@hklaw.com
PAST PRESIDENT
NIKIKI T. BOGLE, Esq.
Managing Partner
Bogle & Okoye, LLC
Email: ntb@boslegal.com
PAST PRESIDENT
ANGELA McCONNEY, Esq.
General Counsel
Massachusetts Civil Service
Commission
Email: angela.mcconney@state.ma.us
DIRECTOR
Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights
Representative
OGOR WINNIE OKOYE, Esq.
Managing Partner
Bogle & Okoye, LLC
Email: owo@boslegal.com
DIRECTOR
ROBERT COOPER, Esq.
Vice President/Senior Counsel
OneUnited Bank
DIRECTOR
ANTINUKE DIVER Esq.
Attorney
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Leadership
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MBLA 2009-2010 LEADERSHIP
Row 1 L-R: Hon. Angel Kelley Brown (Past MBLA Director), Antinuke Diver
(Director), Nikiki Bogle (Past President), Ogor Okoye (Director), Keeana Saxon
(Secretary), Donald LaRoche (Treasurer)
Row 2 L-R: Dominic Blue (Vice President), Douglas Martin (President), Damon
Hart (Immediate Past President), Wadner Oge (Director), Robert Cooper (Director),
Damian Wilmot (President-Elect)
Not Pictured: Angela McConney (Past President) and Adam Foss (Director)
Row 1 L-R: Hon. Angel Kelley Brown (Past MBLA Director), Antinuke Diver
(Director), Nikiki Bogle (Past President), Ogor Okoye (Director), Keeana Saxon
(Secretary), Donald LaRoche (Treasurer)
Row 2 L-R: Dominic Blue (Vice President), Douglas Martin (President), Damon
Hart (Immediate Past President), Wadner Oge (Director), Robert Cooper (Director),
Damian Wilmot (President-Elect)
Not Pictured: Angela McConney (Past President) and Adam Foss (Director)
EXECUTIVE TEAM BIOGRAPHIES
PRESIDENT-ELECT
DAMIAN WILMOT is an associate in Goodwin Procter's Litigation Department. Mr. Wilmot
concentrates his practice on general commercial litigation, white collar criminal defense, and
governmental and internal investigations. He also represents employers in all phases of
employment-related litigation. Mr. Wilmot joined Goodwin Procter in 2006.
While attending law school, Mr. Wilmot was a staff member and Productions Editor of the Suffolk
Transnational Law Review.
Before joining Goodwin Procter, Mr. Wilmot was an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the District of
Massachusetts. As an AUSA, he represented the federal government in civil and criminal actions
and investigations brought to enforce federal regulatory requirements and to recover damages
against companies or individuals (e.g., independent clinical laboratories, pharmaceutical
manufacturers, hospitals, ambulance service providers, doctors, and other medical providers)
who submitted false claims to or committed fraud against the government.
Mr. Wilmot also represented the federal government and its agencies in all phases of litigation in
the U.S. District Court of the District of Massachusetts and the U.S. First and Second Circuit
Courts of Appeals in various civil suits brought against the government, including employment
discrimination and wrongful discharge litigation, suits asserted under the Federal Tort Claims
Act, challenges to agency actions under the Administrative Procedure Act, and the defense of
government officials sued in their individual capacities. Prior to serving as an AUSA, he was an
associate with Seyfarth Shaw LLP in Boston. Before that, Mr. Wilmot clerked for Justice Christine
Vertefeuille on the State of Connecticut Supreme Court.
Mr. Wilmot is a member of the American Bar Association, the Boston Bar Association and the
Massachusetts Black Lawyers Association. He is also a member of the Suffolk University Law
School Alumni Association Board of Directors, the Boston Leadership Development Foundation
Board of Directors and the Middlesex County District Attorney's Office Diversity Committee.
Previously, Mr. Wilmot served as the Chair of the Board of Directors for the Dorchester,
Massachusetts YMCA from 2004 to 2006; a Governing Board Member of the Disability Law Center
from 2003 to 2004; and as the President of the Trinity College Black Alumni Organization from
2002 to 2006.
Mr. Wilmot is admitted to practice in Massachusetts and Connecticut, and before the U.S. District
Court for the Districts of Massachusetts and Connecticut.
While in law school, Mr. Wilmot received the Book Award for Outstanding Scholarship and
Leadership Ability from the Massachusetts Black Judges Conference. He also received the 2005
Outstanding BLSA Alumnus Award from the Black Law Student Association, Suffolk University
Law School Chapter.
J.D., Suffolk University Law School, 2000
B.A., Trinity College, 1997
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VICE PRESIDENT
DOMINIC BLUE is an associate at the law firm of Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP, where he
practices corporate law with a particular emphasis on venture capital financing, mergers and
acquisitions, private equity fund formation and general corporate representation. In addition, Mr.
Blue is an adjunct professor at Boston College where he teaches business law.
Prior to joining the Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge, Mr. Blue was an associate in the business
practice group of Testa Hurwitz & Tibeault, LLP. During law school, Mr. Blue clerked for the
Boston Housing Authority, worked as a substitute teacher for Boston Public Schools and coached
wrestling at a private school in Boston.
Mr. Blue serves as a volunteer for Big Brothers of Mass Bay. Mr. Blue also volunteers for the
Rodman Ride for Kids and remains actively involved with his alma mater, the College of the Holy
Cross.
In addition to earning his B.A. from Holy Cross, Mr. Blue earned is MBA from the Carroll School of
Management (Boston College) and JD from Boston College Law School.
__________________________________________________________
SECRETARY
KEEANA SERENE SAXON, Esq., currently a Roslindale resident, was born in Washington D.C.
and raised in Newton, Massachusetts. In 1999, Ms. Saxon graduated magna cum laude from
Spelman College with a major in Classical Piano Performance major and a minor in French.
While in college, she earned a Teacher’s Certificate from a private conservatory in Paris, France.
After college, she decided to focus her attention on law, graduating from Western New England
College School of Law in 2003.
Upon her graduation, she became a litigation associate in the insurance and torts department at
Day Pitney LLP (Hartford Office), where she had previously worked as a summer associate. In
2005, she returned to Massachusetts to work for a state senator as the Director of the Joint
Committee on State Administration and Regulatory Oversight. In 2007, she was admitted to the
Massachusetts bar.
Ms. Saxon is now Counsel with the Massachusetts Department of Housing and Community
Development, where she drafts rulings for the Housing Appeals Committee, an entity dedicated
to handling litigation matters between all of the zoning boards of appeals in the Commonwealth
and developers who apply for comprehensive permits to build affordable housing. She also has
been recently assigned the task of rewriting the public housing regulations for the
Commonwealth.
She brings her passion for education to the Boston Renaissance Charter Public School where
she is the Vice-Chair of its Board of Trustees. Ms. Saxon is a member of the 2009 LeadBoston
class of the Boston Center for Community and Justice where she shares her passion for social
justice.
PRESIDENT-ELECT
DAMIAN WILMOT is an associate in Goodwin Procter's Litigation Department. Mr. Wilmot
concentrates his practice on general commercial litigation, white collar criminal defense, and
governmental and internal investigations. He also represents employers in all phases of
employment-related litigation. Mr. Wilmot joined Goodwin Procter in 2006.
While attending law school, Mr. Wilmot was a staff member and Productions Editor of the Suffolk
Transnational Law Review.
Before joining Goodwin Procter, Mr. Wilmot was an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the District of
Massachusetts. As an AUSA, he represented the federal government in civil and criminal actions
and investigations brought to enforce federal regulatory requirements and to recover damages
against companies or individuals (e.g., independent clinical laboratories, pharmaceutical
manufacturers, hospitals, ambulance service providers, doctors, and other medical providers)
who submitted false claims to or committed fraud against the government.
Mr. Wilmot also represented the federal government and its agencies in all phases of litigation in
the U.S. District Court of the District of Massachusetts and the U.S. First and Second Circuit
Courts of Appeals in various civil suits brought against the government, including employment
discrimination and wrongful discharge litigation, suits asserted under the Federal Tort Claims
Act, challenges to agency actions under the Administrative Procedure Act, and the defense of
government officials sued in their individual capacities. Prior to serving as an AUSA, he was an
associate with Seyfarth Shaw LLP in Boston. Before that, Mr. Wilmot clerked for Justice Christine
Vertefeuille on the State of Connecticut Supreme Court.
Mr. Wilmot is a member of the American Bar Association, the Boston Bar Association and the
Massachusetts Black Lawyers Association. He is also a member of the Suffolk University Law
School Alumni Association Board of Directors, the Boston Leadership Development Foundation
Board of Directors and the Middlesex County District Attorney's Office Diversity Committee.
Previously, Mr. Wilmot served as the Chair of the Board of Directors for the Dorchester,
Massachusetts YMCA from 2004 to 2006; a Governing Board Member of the Disability Law Center
from 2003 to 2004; and as the President of the Trinity College Black Alumni Organization from
2002 to 2006.
Mr. Wilmot is admitted to practice in Massachusetts and Connecticut, and before the U.S. District
Court for the Districts of Massachusetts and Connecticut.
While in law school, Mr. Wilmot received the Book Award for Outstanding Scholarship and
Leadership Ability from the Massachusetts Black Judges Conference. He also received the 2005
Outstanding BLSA Alumnus Award from the Black Law Student Association, Suffolk University
Law School Chapter.
J.D., Suffolk University Law School, 2000
B.A., Trinity College, 1997
__________________________________________________________
VICE PRESIDENT
DOMINIC BLUE is an associate at the law firm of Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP, where he
practices corporate law with a particular emphasis on venture capital financing, mergers and
acquisitions, private equity fund formation and general corporate representation. In addition, Mr.
Blue is an adjunct professor at Boston College where he teaches business law.
Prior to joining the Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge, Mr. Blue was an associate in the business
practice group of Testa Hurwitz & Tibeault, LLP. During law school, Mr. Blue clerked for the
Boston Housing Authority, worked as a substitute teacher for Boston Public Schools and coached
wrestling at a private school in Boston.
Mr. Blue serves as a volunteer for Big Brothers of Mass Bay. Mr. Blue also volunteers for the
Rodman Ride for Kids and remains actively involved with his alma mater, the College of the Holy
Cross.
In addition to earning his B.A. from Holy Cross, Mr. Blue earned is MBA from the Carroll School of
Management (Boston College) and JD from Boston College Law School.
__________________________________________________________
SECRETARY
KEEANA SERENE SAXON, Esq., currently a Roslindale resident, was born in Washington D.C.
and raised in Newton, Massachusetts. In 1999, Ms. Saxon graduated magna cum laude from
Spelman College with a major in Classical Piano Performance major and a minor in French.
While in college, she earned a Teacher’s Certificate from a private conservatory in Paris, France.
After college, she decided to focus her attention on law, graduating from Western New England
College School of Law in 2003.
Upon her graduation, she became a litigation associate in the insurance and torts department at
Day Pitney LLP (Hartford Office), where she had previously worked as a summer associate. In
2005, she returned to Massachusetts to work for a state senator as the Director of the Joint
Committee on State Administration and Regulatory Oversight. In 2007, she was admitted to the
Massachusetts bar.
Ms. Saxon is now Counsel with the Massachusetts Department of Housing and Community
Development, where she drafts rulings for the Housing Appeals Committee, an entity dedicated
to handling litigation matters between all of the zoning boards of appeals in the Commonwealth
and developers who apply for comprehensive permits to build affordable housing. She also has
been recently assigned the task of rewriting the public housing regulations for the
Commonwealth.
She brings her passion for education to the Boston Renaissance Charter Public School where
she is the Vice-Chair of its Board of Trustees. Ms. Saxon is a member of the 2009 LeadBoston
class of the Boston Center for Community and Justice where she shares her passion for social
justice.
