Professor Sharon Beckman serves on the SJC Standing Committee on Eyewitness Identification, the Board of the New England Innocence Program, and on the Criminal Justice Act Appellate Panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. She has also served as a law clerk to the Hon. Sandra Day O'Connor of the Supreme Court of the United States and to Hon. Frank Coffin of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.  By appointment as a member of the Equal Justice Act Panel, Professor Beckman continues to represent indigent appellants in the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.