Retired United States District Judge Mark L. Wolf is Senior Counsel to the Boston, Massachusetts law firm Todd & Weld and Chair of Integrity Initiatives International, whose mission is to strengthen the enforcement of criminal law against corrupt leaders, most notably by catalyzing and coordinating a campaign to create an International Anti-Corruption Court. As in a November 9, 2025 article in The Atlantic, Judge Wolf resigned in order to contribute to the effort to counter the current existential threat to the rule of law and democracy in the United States.
Judge Wolf was appointed to the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts in 1985, served as its Chief Judge from 2006 through 2012, and was a Senior Judge at the time of his resignation. He had previously served as a member of the Judicial Conference of the United States, as Chair of the Committee of District Judges on the Judicial Conference, and on the Judicial Conference Committees on Criminal Law, the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, and Codes of Conduct.
Judge Wolf also previously served in the Department of Justice as a Special Assistant to the Deputy Attorney General of the United States (1974) and to the Attorney General of the United States (1975-1977), and was Deputy United States Attorney for the District of Massachusetts and Chief of the Public Corruption Unit in that office (1981-1985). He was also in private practice in Washington, D.C. (1971-1974) and in Boston (1977-1981).
A graduate of Yale College and the Harvard Law School, Judge Wolf has taught courses on the role of the judge in American democracy at the Harvard, Boston College, New England and University of California - Irvine Law Schools. At the Harvard Kennedy School, Judge Wolf was an Adjunct Lecturer teaching a seminar on combatting corruption internationally, a Hauser Leaders Fellow, and a Senior Fellow of the Harvard Carr Center for Human Rights. He was also a Distinguished Non-Resident Fellow of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Judge Wolf is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
