PETER W. KILBORN

Kilborn, Peter, W., Hon. (Ret.) Of Lexington, formerly of Newton, age 81, died on December 28, 2014 from complications of a stroke. Peter grew up in Portland, Maine and graduated from Tabor Academy, Marion, MA in 1951. After graduation from Harvard College in 1955, he served in the U.S. Army as a First Lieutenant, honorably discharged in 1957. He returned to Cambridge to attend Harvard Law School in the class of 1960. In Boston, he started his legal career at Tyler and Reynolds and then at Mintz, Levin, and Cohn. In 1968 he joined Rackemann, Sawyer & Brewster, specializing in real estate law, where he spent many years as managing director. In 1990 he was appointed to the Commonwealth's Land Court by Governor Michael S. Dukakis and served there as Justice and Chief Justice until retirement in 2003. While serving as a judge he chaired the Supreme Judicial Court's Committee to Review the Rules of Judicial Conduct and appeared many times as a faculty member on forums sponsored by bar associations and Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education. He leaves his wife, Jane, and two sons, John of Winchester, MA, and his wife, Lisa, and James of Roseville, Minnesota, and his wife, Marcella, and three grandchildren, Sarah, Alison, and Peter. A remembrance will be held at a date to be announced later.