Gov. Deval Patrick has nominated Associate Justice Angela M. Ordonez to the Norfolk Probate and Family Court to fill the vacancy created by the retirement of Judge David H. Kopelman.

The Norfolk Probate and Family Court serves Norfolk County, which includes Norfolk, Foxboro and Wrentham.

A Boston resident and graduate of Northeastern University and its law school, Ordonez has served as associate justice in the Nantucket Division of the Probate and Family Court since 2000, and has most recently been assigned to serve in the Norfolk Division of the court.

Ordonez, who is bilingual, is a former co-chair of the board of directors of the Massachusetts Family and Probate American Inn of Courts.