The Hon. R. Peter Anderson (Ret.) was an associate justice of the Boston Municipal Court in Massachusetts. He was appointed to the bench by former Governor Michael Dukakis in 1990. Anderson retired in 2007.
While on the bench, he presided as first justice of the Brighton Division and an associate justice of the Dedham and Roxbury Divisions.
Anderson received an LL.B. from Yale Law School in 1969.
After retiring from the bench, he was a visiting fellow at McCormack Graduate School.
Anderson was chair of the Trial Court Committee on Small Claims Practices and Procedures and served as a member of the Boston Bar Association’s Task Force on Unrepresented Litigants.
He was born in Norfolk, Virginia.