| Summary: | Commercial lawyer and federal prosecutor Wayne Anthony Budd was born November 18, 1941, in Springfield, Massachusetts. He received his A.B. degree in economics from Boston College in 1963; his J. D. degree from the Wayne State University School of Law in Detroit in 1967. Budd was assistant corporation counsel for the City of Boston from 1968 to 1969, then, entered private practice. In 1979, Budd was the first African American president of the Massachusetts Bar Association. He was also the youngest, at age thirty-eight, president of any state bar association. He served as the United States Attorney for the District of Massachusetts. In 1992, President George H.W. Bush appointed Budd as associate attorney general of the United States in charge of the civil rights, environmental, tax civil and anti-trust divisions. President Clinton appointed Budd to the U. S. Sentencing Commission. He was a senior counsel at the Goodwin Proctor law firm in Boston.
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