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NH Bar Association Officers & Board of Governors | |
| President |  Ellen L. Arnold
Dartmouth College
Office of the General Counsel
14 South Main Street, Suite 2C Hanover, NH 03755
603-646-2444
ellen.arnold@dartmouth.edu |
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Ellen L. Arnold currently serves as Associate General Counsel for Dartmouth College. Her practice focuses on the areas of land use planning and zoning, environmental law, construction contracting, disability law, and student affairs. Prior to joining Dartmouth College in 2001, Arnold was a litigation partner at McLane, Graf Raulerson, & Middleton, P.A. where her practice included representation of public and private clients in land use, environmental, and government regulatory matters. She has also served as special counsel to Governor Judd Gregg and as legal counsel for the New Hampshire State Senate. Arnold is the Special Justice of the Henniker District Court and a Grafton County Family Division Justice. She received her B.A. degree in government from Skidmore College and her J.D. from Franklin Pierce Law Center. She has served on the Board of the New Hampshire Women ‘s Bar Association and is a current member of the Board of the New Hampshire Bar Foundation, co-chair of the New Hampshire Bar Association Work-Life Creed Committee and a member of the New Hampshire Supreme Court’s Commission on the Status of the Legal Profession.
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| | President-Elect | James J. Tenn, Jr. received his J.D. from The Catholic University of America. He was admitted to NH Bar in 1991 and admitted to Massachusetts Bar in 1992. He is a partner in Tenn and Tenn PA of Manchester. His activities within the NH Bar include: Member, Pro Bono Advisory Board; former chair, New Lawyers Committee; member of Member Services Work Group; past member of the Ethics Committee. Participant in Lawyer in Every School and referral marathons for Pro Bono DOVE Program, prior faculty member for DOVE training. Coach for entrant in the NHBA Mock Trial competition. Host and volunteer for LawLine. He is also a member of the Manchester Bar Association, the New Hampshire Trial Lawyers Association, the New Hampshire Criminal Defense Lawyers Association, the American Bar Association and the Massachusetts Bar Association.
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| | Vice President |  Marilyn B. McNamara
Legal Advice & Referral Center
48 South Main Street
Concord, NH 03301
603-224-3333
mbmcnamara@larcnh.org |
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A graduate of Franklin Pierce Law Center, Marilyn McNamara joined the NH Bar in 1977. She remained at the school for a year following graduation to assist in the launching of what was then the Family and Housing Law Clinic. She was in private practice in Lebanon from 1978 until a move to southern New Hampshire led to her 2001 decision to leave private practice and become the current executive director of the Legal Advice and Referral Center (LARC). In the past, she has served on the Judicial Council and on Gov. Jeanne Shaheen’s Judicial Selection Commission. She also has served on NH Bar committees including Continuing Legal Education, Professionalism and the Delivery of Legal Services. She served on the NHBA Pro Bono Governing Board for 10 years, first as a member and then as chair, and she was an active Pro Bono lawyer while in private practice. She is an adjunct faculty member at Pierce Law Center, where she has recently collaborated with the Daniel Webster Scholar program to bring law students to LARC to acquire interview and practice skills and provide telephone advocacy services to low-income clients. She has served on various New Hampshire commissions concerning the provision of legal services to low-income clients.
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| | Secretary |  Peter E. Hutchins
Wiggin & Nourie PA
670 North Commercial Street Suite 305
PO Box 808
Manchester,NH 03105-0808
603-669-2211
phutchins@wiggin-nourie.com |
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Peter E. Hutchins is a 1983 JD graduate of Boston College Law School. He has been a member of the NH Bar since 1983 and is a shareholder at Wiggin & Nourie, P.A. in Manchester, with a practice centering in plaintiff personal injury litigation. He is a past president of the NHBA (2001-02), a member of the ABA, ATLA, NHTLA, the Manchester Bar and the Dartmouth Lawyers’ Association. He is also admitted to practice in the US District Court and the First Circuit Court of Appeals. Hutchins resides in Manchester and in Hampton, NH with his wife Kathy, a realtor/broker. He has one daughter, Jamie, a financial advisor to Merrill Lynch in Manchester. Hutchins enjoys golfing and officiates at high school basketball games.
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| | Treasurer |  Robert R. Howard, III
Robert Howard Law Offices
30 Maple Street
PO Box 900
Henniker, NH 03242
603-428-3232
r_howard@conknet.com |
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Robert R. Howard graduated from Boston University with a J.D. in 1969 and was admitted to the NH Bar in 1969; he has been the NHBA treasurer since 1993. He is also a member of the NHBA Finance Committee and the Technology Task Force; he has been a member of various NHBA sections and on faculty panels of a number of CLEs. He is a former Merrimack County governor and governor-at-large on the NHBA Board of Governors. He served nine years as a part-time district court judge and was the recipient of the NHBA President’s Award for Outstanding Professionalism in 1996. He co-teaches the Law Practice Management session of the required Practical Skills course offered semi-annually to new admittees.
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| | Immediate Past President | Eleanor Wm. Dahar graduated from Boston College Law School in 1987 and was admitted to the New Hampshire Bar in 1988. She practices with the law firm of Victor W. Dahar, P.A. in Manchester. She has served as Vice-President and Secretary of the NHBA and has served a three-year term as an at-large member of the Board of Governors. Dahar is also a member of the NH Bar Foundation Board of Directors, a member of the Massachusetts Bar and the American Bar Associations and the American Bankruptcy Institute.
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| Governors-at-Large
(3-year term)
|  Susan Hassan (2010)
Hassan Law Firm
17 South State Street, Unit 1
Concord, NH 03301
603-228-1022
susan@hassanlaw.net |
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Susan H. Hassan concentrates her practice on estate and trust planning, adoptions and guardianships, Probate Administration, and bankruptcy law. Susan recently returned to a solo practice and opened Hassan Lawfirm in Concord. She earned her B.S. from Lynchburg College in 1988, her M.S. from Illinois State University in 1990 and her J.D. from the Franklin Pierce Law Center in 2000. Susan is a member of the New Hampshire and Massachusetts Bar Associations and the U.S. Supreme Court. She is also a member of the NHBA’s Finance Committee and a member of the NHBA’s Elder Law, Estate Planning and Probate Section.
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 Lisa A. Wellman-Ally (2009)
Elliott Jasper Auten Shklar & Wellman-Ally Law LLP
35 Main Street
Newport, NH 03773-1504
603-863-4105
wellmanally@comcast.net
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Lisa Wellman-Ally graduated with a J.D. degree from Washington & Lee School of Law and was admitted to the bar in NH 2002, in VT in 2003 and to NY Bar in 1990. She is a member of the Association of Trial Lawyers of America, New Hampshire Trial Lawyers Association, New Hampshire Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, Vermont Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers and the American Bar Association.Wellman-Ally is in private practice at Elliott Jasper Auten Shklar & Wellman-Ally Law LLP, Claremont, NH.
Before relocating to New Hampshire, she practiced law in New York City for 12 years. She previously served a two-year term on the Board of Governors representing Sullivan County.
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 Lawrence A. Vogelman (2010) Nixon, Raiche, Vogelman, Barry & Slawsky, PA
77 Central Street
Manchester, NH 03101
603-669-7070
lvogelman@nixonraiche.com
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Lawrence A. Vogelman is a director of the firm Nixon, Raiche, Vogelman, Barry & Slawsky, PA in Manchester, NH where he concentrates his practice in criminal defense, civil rights, personal injury law, employment law and professional malpractice. He earned his B.A. from Brooklyn College of the City University of New York in 1970 and his J.D. from Brooklyn Law School in 1973. Larry is legal director of the NH Civil Liberties Union; a founding member and former Board of Directors member of the New York State Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers; a former member of the Board of Directors of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers; is on the Board of Bar Examiners; and the Federal Court Advisory Committee. He is on the Board of Governors of the New Hampshire Bar Association and is past president of the Federal Practice Section. Larry is also a member of the Bar’s Ethics Committee and Dispute Resolution Committee. For 15 years, Larry was a professor at Cardozo Law School and he has been teaching trial practice to lawyers and law students since 1974.
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 Jaye Rancourt (2011)
Brennan Caron Lenehan & Iacopino PA
85 Brook Street
Manchester,NH 03104-3605
603-668-8300
jrancourt@bclilaw.com
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Jaye Rancourt graduated from the University of Maine School of Law in 1999 and relocated to New Hampshire to begin her practice with the New Hampshire Public Defenders Office. She worked for the NH Public Defender’s Office until 2003 when she began practicing with Brennan Caron Lenehan & Iacopino in Manchester. She practices in the area of criminal defense and civil litigation. Jaye has served as the chairperson of the New Lawyers’ Committee of the New Hampshire Bar Association for three years. She has also served on the Professionalism Committee and the Law Related Education Committee. Jaye is the District Representative for New Hampshire and Massachusetts to the American Bar Association-Young Lawyers Division and also serves on the Affiliate Assistance Team for the ABA-YLD.
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 Alexander J. Walker, Jr. (2011)
Devine, Millimet & Branch, PA
111 Amherst Street
PO Box 719
Manchester, NH 03105
603-669-1000
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Alexander J. Walker, Jr. is a shareholder at Devine, Millimet & Branch in Manchester where he is presently serving as the firm’s President. He received his JD in 1992 from Northeastern University School of Law and joined the NH Bar that same year. He also holds a B.A. in English and Political Science, with honors, from the University of Massachusetts. Walker served for three years in the United States Marine Corps. He is on the board of directors for the Greater Manchester Chamber of Commerce and on the board of trustees for the Palace Theatre. He lives in Manchester with his wife Lisa and his two children, Rose and Alexander.
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| County Governors
(2-year term)
|  Dorcas Jessica Gordon (2010)
Wescott, Millham & Dyer, LLP
28 Bowman Street
PO Box 1700
Laconia, NH 03247
603-524-2166
dgordon@wmdlawyers.com |
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Belknap County
Dorcas J. Gordon is a partner of the Laconia based law firm of Wescott, Millham & Dyer, LLP. She graduated with a BA in English from Boston College in 1998, and earned her JD degree at the University of Connecticut School of Law in 2003. She was admitted to the New Hampshire Bar and the U.S. District Court for the District of New Hampshire in 2003. Attorney Gordon has served as the Belknap County Governor for the New Hampshire Bar Association since assuming a mid-term vacancy of the position in 2005. She lives in Bristol, NH where she is active in community affairs, including serving as vice chairman of the Town of Bristol’s Budget Committee and as a member of the Town’s Historic District Commission. Attorney Gordon maintains a general practice, serving clients in civil litigation, probate, estate planning and real estate matters.
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 Christopher T. Meier (2010)
Cooper Cargill Chant PA
2935 White Mountain Highway
North Conway,NH 03860-5210
603-356-5439
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Carroll County
Christopher T. Meier is an associate at Cooper Cargill Chant in North Conway. He is a 1998 graduate of the Boston University School of Law where he was a Paul J. Liacos Distinguished Scholar and served as Administrative Editor to the BU International Law Journal. He joined the Mass. Bar in 1998 and became a member of the NH Bar in 2005. Meier clerked for the justices of the Mass. Superior Court. His practice concentrates on the litigation of business and commercial disputes, with an emphasis on real estate, corporate compliance and commercial fraud. He represents clients in both state and federal courts throughout New England. Meier is a member of the Carroll County Bar Association and lives in North Conway with his wife Jenny and his daughter Jordan and enjoys skiing, cycling and hiking.
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Cheshire County
Attorney Maria Gavin, although born in Massachusetts, grew up in Mason, New Hampshire. Her education includes an M.B.A. from the University of Massachusetts-Boston and a J.D. from the University of Maine School of Law. In 2005, immediately after law school, she joined the Keene law firm of Bradley, Burnett, Kinyon, Fernald & Green, which has now merged with another Keene firm to become Bradley & Faulkner, P.C.
As Cheshire County governor, she hopes to bring the concerns and comments of the Cheshire County Bar to the Board and to work on issues that face all lawyers in New Hampshire.
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Coos County
David Carlson graduated from the University of Maine in 1980 and from Franklin Pierce Law Center (J.D.) in 1983. He began in private practice in the Law Office of Thomas J. Cote, and then joined the firm of Bergeron, Hanson & Bornstein in 1991. He became a partner in 1996 and remained there until his appointment in 2001 as Clerk of the Coos County Superior Court.
A member of the NH Bar since 1983, Carlson also is a member of the Coos County Bar Association, and president and treasurer since 2001.
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Grafton County
A member of the NH Bar for 20 years, Attorney Quentin Blaine began his law career in the law office of Peter Marsh in Concord in 1986. He moved to Plymouth in 1989 where he became a partner with William Hopkins, prior to starting a solo practice there in 1995. In 2001, he accepted an appointment as Clerk of Concord District Court. On leaving the court system, he practiced a short while with Hebert & Uchida in Concord before deciding to end his commute and re-open a solo practice in Plymouth, where he lives.
As Grafton County governor, this is Blaine's first opportunity to participate in the governance of the Bar Association and he brings the perspective of having worked in the court system and of having practiced law in small firms and as a solo practitioner.
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 Victor W. Dahar, Jr. (2010)
Dahar Professional Association 20 Merrimack Street
Manchester,NH 03101
603-622-6595
vdaharpa@worldnet.att.net |
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Hillsborough County North
Victor W. Dahar, Jr. is an attorney with Victor W. Dahar, P.A. in Manchester and practices in the areas of bankruptcy law, commercial litigation, personal injury, real estate law, family law and estate planning. He is a graduate of Fordham University and Franklin Pierce Law Center (JD degree, 1992). He joined the NH Bar in 1992 and was also admitted to practice in Massachusetts in 1993. In addition, he practices in the US District Court in both states. Dahar has been president of the Manchester Bar Association (2003-04), of which he is now a board member. He is also a member of the American Bar Association, the Association of Trial Lawyers of America and the NH Estate Planning Council. In his community, he has been a member of the Manchester Rotary Club and a board member of New Horizons. He is also an active supporter of state and local charities.
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 Robert M. Shepard (2010)
Smith-Weiss Shepard & Durmer PC 47 Factory Street
PO Box 388
Nashua,NH 03061-0388
603-883-1571
rmshepard@nhlaw-nashua.com |
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Hillsborough County South
Robert M. Shepard is a director and shareholder in the firm of Smith-Weiss, Shepard & Durmer, P.C. and vice-president of ABBA Title Company. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in history from St. Michael’s College in Winoski, VT in 1980 and a JD degree from Franklin Pierce Law Center in 1983. He was admitted to the New Hampshire Bar and to practice law before the U.S. District Court for the District of New Hampshire that same year.
Shepard serves his community in the following ways: as a volunteer coach in the Nashua AAU Basketball Program; as a participant in the Pro Bono Referral System for the New Hampshire Bar Association; as legal counsel for Habitat for Humanity-Nashua and for the Nashua Soup Kitchen and Shelter; he is a member of the board of directors for Big Brothers/Big Sisters of Nashua (two years) and is a member of the Greater Nashua YMCA Board of Directors.
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 Kenneth J. Barnes (2009)
Law Office of Kenneth J. Barnes PO Box 2339
Concord, NH 03302-2339
603-496-9605
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Merrimack County
Kenneth J. Barnes was awarded his JD degree from Yale Law School in 1976 and joined the New York Bar. In 1992 he became a member of the NH Bar. He holds an MA from the Yale Graduate School of Arts & Sciences and also a Master’s in Philosophy; in addition, he earned a diploma in economics from King’s College, Cambridge University.
Barnes is a civil litigator who enjoys appellate and trial work in both state and federal courts. He has handled complex litigation and class actions, with a caseload ranging from employment law to family law, from business disputes to town environmental matters, from right-to-know law to children’s rights to professional licensing disputes. He is also an active mediator, under the courts’ Rule 170 program and has served on the New Hampshire Child Protection Task Force; the Citizens Review Panel for the Division of Children Youth & Families (DCYF); and on the Board of Directors of the Disabilities Rights Center.
Before entering private practice, he served in the United States Department of Justice and clerked for judges on the First Circuit Court of Appeals and the New Hampshire Supreme Court. He has worked as an advocate for impoverished families, children and the elderly in positions at Bronx Legal Services, New Hampshire Legal Assistance, and the New York City Commission on Human Rights.
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 Robert T. Mittelholzer (2009)
Mittelholzer & Dibble, PLLC
74 Exeter Street
Newmarket, NH 03857
603-292-1455
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Rockingham County
Bob Mittelholzer of Mittelholzer & Dibble, PLLC is a fellow of the New Hampshire Bar Foundation. Bob has served on a number of committees for the New Hampshire Bar Association over the years, including the Fee Dispute Resolution Committee and the Lawyer to Lawyer Dispute Resolution Committee. He has also been a Strafford County representative to the Board of Governors. A graduate of Franklin Pierce Law Center in Concord, New Hampshire, Bob received his Bachelor of Arts degree in History from the College of the Holy Cross and a Master's Degree from New York University. He is admitted to the bars of Maine, New Hampshire and Massachusetts. .
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Strafford County
Christopher T. Regan is a graduate of Cornell University (A.B) and received his J.D. from Boston University in 1981. He came to New Hampshire to clerk for the Hon. William Batchelder at the New Hampshire Supreme Court. He worked for a 10-person law firm for four years, and now is toiling in the trenches as a solo or small firm practitioner, first in Dover and now in Durham. Regan was president of the Strafford County Bar Association in 2000-01 and is now Barrister in the Inns of Court. For the past 10 years, he has served as a lawyer/chair of the NH Compensation Appeals Board. Currently, he is moderator for the town of Durham.
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 David Foley (2010)
NH Division Children Youth & Families
17 Water Street
Claremont, NH 03743
603-542-9544
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Sullivan County
David N. Foley is a graduate of the University of New Hampshire with a BA in 1982 and an MAT in 1986. He received his JD degree from Franklin Pierce Law Center in 1991 and became a NH Bar member that same year. His experience includes: New Hampshire Public Defender, 1992-1996; solo practitioner, 1996-1997; Robert Howard Law Office, 1997-2002. Since 2002, he has been with State of NH, DHHS-DCYF, Claremont.
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| | ABA Association Delegate | Russell F. Hilliard is an attorney with Upton & Hatfield, LLP in Portsmouth, where he focuses his practice in litigation, commercial law and insurance law. Russ earned his B.S. from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1973, his J.D. from Cornell University Law School in 1976 and his LL.M. in taxation in 1985 from Boston University School of Law. He is an American College of Trial Lawyers Fellow and a member of the Merrimack County and American Bar Associations. He is a member and past-chair of the Committee on Professionalism and a member of the Outreach Task Force. Russ is a past President of the NHBA Board of Go vernors, and is the current NHBA CLE Committee Chair. As Association Delegate, Hilliard represents the New Hampshire Bar Association in the House of Delegates.
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James J. Tenn
Eleanor Wm. Dahar
Maria P. Gavin (2009)
David P. Carlson (2009)
Quentin J. Blaine (2009)
Christopher T. Regan (2010)
Russell F. Hilliard (2010)
