Rebeca G. Figueroa

Associate Justice of the Boston Municipal Court

REBECA G. FIGUEROA is an Associate Justice of the Boston Municipal Court. She was appointed to the bench by Governor Maura Healey in 2024. As an associate justice, Judge Figueroa presides at the Dorchester Division of the Boston Municipal Court and is the presiding justice of the Dorchester Recovery Court.

She began her legal career as a Staff Attorney for the Committee for Public Counsel Services in the Roxbury Defenders Unit in 2003, representing indigent criminal defendants charged with felony offenses at the Roxbury Division of the Boston Municipal Court and Suffolk Superior Court. Later, Judge Figueroa entered private practice as a solo practitioner focused on criminal defense, family law, and real estate.

In 2017, she was appointed Assistant Clerk-Magistrate for Criminal Business at Suffolk Superior Court, and shortly thereafter, she was designated as a magistrate. She holds a bachelor’s degree from Boston College and a Juris Doctorate from the New England School of Law. She lives in Boston with her husband and family.