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NH Bar Association Officers & Board of Governors | |
| President |  Jennifer L. Parent
McLane Graf Raulerson & Middleton PA
900 Elm Street
PO Box 326
Manchester, NH 03105-0326
603-625-6464
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Jennifer L. Parent is a director in the litigation department in the McLane, Graf, Raulerson & Middleton law firm in Manchester, with particular focus on business and employment litigation. She served on the NHBA Board of Governors from 2004 to 2008, representing Hillsborough County North. Parent also has been active in the New Lawyers Division of the American Bar Association, and served as President of the NH Women’s Bar Association. She currently is a member of the NH Supreme Court Rules Advisory Committee. She has also participated in a number of task forces and committees of the NH Bar Association. Parent received her law degree from Suffolk University Law School and was admitted to the NH Bar in 1995. She received the Robert E. Kirby award, honoring excellence in advocacy, civility and professionalism of a lawyer under 40 years of age, from the NH Bar Foundation in 2003.
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| | President-Elect |  Lawrence A. Vogelman
Nixon, Raiche, Vogelman
77 Central Street
Manchester, NH 03101-2423
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 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 Federal Court Advisory Committee. He is VP Civil Rights Section of AAJ and the only NH Fellow of American Board of Criminal Defense Lawyers. He is on the PCC, the Board of Governors of the New Hampshire Bar Association and is past president of the Federal Practice Section. 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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| | Vice President |  Jaye L. Rancourt
Brennan Caron Lenehan & Iacopino PA
85 Brook Street
Manchester,NH 03104-3605
603-668-8300
jrancourt@bclilaw.com
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Jaye L. 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 where she was named a Shareholder in 2009. She practices in the area of criminal defense and civil litigation. Jaye has served on the New Hampshire Bar Association's Board of Governors as a Governor-at-Large for the past three years. Prior to that time, Jaye 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 currently serves on the Steering Committee of the New Hampshire Bar Association's first Leadership Academy. Jaye served as the District Representative for New Hampshire and Massachusetts to the American Bar Association-Young Lawyers Division for two years. She then served as the Affiliates Director and the Administrative Director of the American Bar Association Young Lawyers Division. She currently serves on the ABA–YLD Leadership Advisory Board.
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| | Secretary |  Peter E. Hutchins (2012)
Law Offices of Peter E. Hutchins, PLLC
The Beacon Building
814 Elm St., Suite 200
Manchester, NH 03101
603-625-5555
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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. 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 (2012)
Howard & Urbaitis
168 Maple Street
PO Box 900
Henniker, NH 03242-0900
603-428-3232
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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 | A long-time family law lawyer, Marilyn Billings McNamara recently joined the law firm of Upton & Hatfield, after serving as Executive Director of the Legal Advice & Referral Center for eight years. A graduate of Franklin Pierce Law Center, 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 join the Legal Advice and Referral Center (LARC) as executive director. 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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| Governors-at-Large
(3-year term)
|  Susan Hassan (2012)
Hassan Law Firm
17 South State Street, Unit 1
Concord, NH 03301
603-228-1022
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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 Law Firm 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 (2012)
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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 Jonathan M. Eck (2012)
Devine Millimet & Branch PA
111 Amherst Street
Manchester, NH 03101
603-669-1000
jeck@devinemillimet.com
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Jonathan M. Eck is an associate in the litigation department at Devine, Millimet & Branch in Manchester, where he practices in the areas of commercial litigation and insurance defense. His practice focuses on representing businesses, individuals, and government entities in litigation over a broad range of matters including contract disputes, premises liability, probate matters, legal malpractice lawsuits, and intellectual property litigation.For the past four years, Eck has been a member of the New Hampshire Bar Association’s New Lawyers Committee. Previously, he served a two year term as the District Representative for New Hampshire and Massachusetts for the American Bar Association Young Lawyers Division.Eck has also been active with the Manchester Bar Association, and is currently a member of the Executive Committee.Eck, who was admitted to the New Hampshire Bar in 2006, received his law degree from Vermont Law School and is a graduate of Colby College in Waterville, Maine.
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Eric D. Cook is a lifelong resident of NH who grew up in Durham and is currently living in Portsmouth. His practice is as an in-house attorney and he has worked for several international companies with NH locations. Eric has participated on several Bar Association committees and panels and is also a member of the PCC Hearings Committee. Eric’s wife is also a NH attorney and they have three children, all currently in college.
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 Quentin J. Blaine (2014)
Blaine Law Office PLLC
68 Main Street
PO Box 946
Plymouth, NH 03264-0946
603-536-2910
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A member of the NH Bar for 25 years, Quentin Blaine began his law career at the Law Office of Peter Marsh in Concord in 1986. He later moved to Plymouth and ran an office with William Hopkins prior to starting a solo practice 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. He served two terms as Grafton County Governor, acting as liaison to the Bar Journal Advisory Committee and the Children’s Law Section. He also served as a member of the LRE Public Information Task Force as well as the Board Committee on Administration.
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| Public Sector Governor
(3-year term)
|  Jacki A. Smith (2012)
NH Public Defender
10 Ferry Street
Suite 202
Concord, NH 03301
603-224-1236
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Jacki Smith earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in English cum laude from the University of New Hampshire at Manchester in 1994 and her Juris Doctor degree cum laude from the New England School of Law in Boston in 2000. While awaiting her admission to the New Hampshire Bar Association in 2000, Jacki began serving as law clerk to the New Hampshire Superior Court in Nashua where she remained through 2002. Jacki then attained a position as Staff Attorney in the Nashua office of the New Hampshire Public Defender. In April 2007, Jacki assumed her current role as Managing Attorney of the Public Defender’s Stratham office. Other than a brief romance with the desert southwest, Jacki is a life-long resident of New Hampshire.
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| County Governors
(2-year term)
|  Catherine Broderick (2012) Wescott Dyer Fitzgerald & Nichols PA
28 Bowman Street
Laconia, NH 03247
603-524-2166
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Belknap County
Catherine Broderick is an Associate of the Laconia based firm Wescott, Dyer, Fitzgerald & Nichols, PA. She is a 2006 graduate of Suffolk University Law School and earned her BA in English from Northeastern University in 1994. Catherine is admitted to practice in the Courts of the State of New Hampshire and the United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire.
Catherine lives in Center Sandwich and currently serves her town as the Chairman of the Sandwich Zoning Board of Adjustment. Prior to practicing law, Catherine had a variety of professional experiences including grant writing for non profits, producing promotional films for the City of Boston, owning and operating a bed and breakfast, and over a decade of service with Great American Dining helping to grow the Common Man Family of Restaurants. She is a member of the Belknap County and New Hampshire Bar Associations, The New Hampshire Association for Justice and the NHBA Real Property Section. Catherine was the recipient of the 2009 Distinguished Pro Bono Service Award for Belknap County.
Catherine maintains a general civil practice which includes land use and zoning matters, civil litigation, advising small businesses and condominium associations and assisting clients with wills, trusts, and probate estates.
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 Christopher T. Meier (2012)
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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 Sheila J. Burnham (2013)
Law Offices of Heather M. Sekella PLLC
547 Maple Street
Manchester, NH 03104-4951
603-623-1003
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Cheshire County
Sheila J. Burnham of Rindge, NH, is an associate with Tower & Crocker, P.A. in Jaffrey, NH. She is a graduate of Franklin Pierce Law Center, Juris Doctor, June 2007. She also holds an MS in Criminal Justice (2004) and a BS in Communication Media (1994) from Fitchburg State College, Fitchburg, Mass. In her community, Burnham is a board member of Shelter from the Storm in Jaffrey and a board member of the Contoocook Housing Trust. She is also a member of the Rotary Club, Jaffrey-Rindge chapter. She is also a New Hampshire Pro Bono Program Panelist.
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 John G. McCormick (2013)
Coos County Attorney's Office
1 Middle Street, Third Floor
Lancaster, NH 03584
603-788-5559
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Coos County
John G. McCormick received his J.D. from Penn State University’s Dickinson School of Law, and his A.B. in English from the University of Georgia. Attorney McCormick was admitted to the NH Bar, and the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland in 2004; he was admitted to the Maryland Bar in 2003. Working primarily in the public sector, he served for two years as a contract attorney within the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division, Disability Rights Section. Prior to relocating to New Hampshire to serve as the Assistant Coös County Attorney, he worked for almost two years as a Staff Attorney at a domestic violence legal clinic in suburban Maryland, representing largely low-income and Spanish-speaking clients in protective order and family law cases.
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 Jason R. Crance (2013)
Attorney At Law
35 South Main St
Hanover, NH 03755-2047
603-643-8801
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Grafton County
Jason Crance has been a solo practitioner since opening his law office in downtown Hanover in July of 2009. Crance has particular interest in focusing on matters of land use, education law, and business litigation. Crance graduated from Vermont Law School in 2001 with a Juris Doctor and Master of Studies in Environmental Law, and served as Managing Editor of the Vermont Law Review. Crance obtained his Bachelor’s degree in English at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
Since obtaining his law degree, Crance has practiced law for the respected Lebanon law firm of Baker & Hayes, has taught Criminal Law and Procedure at Norwich University, and performed contract appellate work for the Maine Attorney General’s office. Before his return to New Hampshire in 2009, Crance spent two years in Fargo, North Dakota where he worked for the Nilles Law Firm, a prominent regional law firm, concentrating his attention on commercial litigation.
Crance has served two terms as President of the Grafton County Bar Association (04-05 and 10-11), and is a Past President of the Frank Rowe Kenison Inn of Court (06-07). He is the current Vice President of the Grafton County Bar Association and a member of the Hanover Rotary Club. He grew up in Sturbridge, Massachusetts and is the proud father of triplet daughters.
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 Victor W. Dahar, Jr. (2012)
Dahar Professional Association 20 Merrimack Street
Manchester, NH 03101
603-622-6595
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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 (2012)
Smith-Weiss & Shepard PC
47 Factory Street
PO Box 388
Nashua, NH 03061-0388
603-883-1571
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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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 Derek D. Lick (2013)
Sulloway & Hollis PLLC
9 Capitol Street
PO Box 1256
Concord, NH 03302-1256
603-224-2341
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Merrimack County
Derek D. Lick is a member of Sulloway & Hollis, PLLC of Concord, where he concentrates his practice in litigation, including providing legal defense to insured parties sued in state and federal courts and representing clients in personal injury matters, commercial disputes and disputes involving construction, development and real estate projects. He is currently leader of his firm’s insurance practice group.
Derek is a member of the Defense Research Institute and the Tri-State Defense Lawyers Association. He also serves on the Bar Association’s Committee Cooperation with the Courts.
He graduated from Boston University and from the Vanderbilt School of Law. Prior to entering law practice, Mr. Lick served as the Press Secretary for U.S. Congressman Martin O. Sabo, the then-Chairman of the House Budget Committee and a senior member of the House Appropriations Committee.
Derek resides in Sutton with his wife, Debbie, and their four children. He is active in his community, assisting in coaching his children’s baseball, and T-ball teams, and serving as the leader for the recently-rechartered local Cub Scout pack. He also serves as Sutton’s assistant moderator and on the Sutton Zoning Board of Adjustment, as well as on the board of the Kearsarge Area Council on Aging, the non-profit organization that operates a senior center serving nine towns in the Mt. Kearsarge area.
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 Philip L. Pettis (2013)
Boynton Waldron Doleac
82 Court Street
PO Box 418
Portsmouth, NH 03801-0418
603-436-4010
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Rockingham County
A partner at Boynton, Waldron, Doleac, Woodman & Scott in Portsmouth, since 2002, Philip L. Pettis focuses his practice on employment law, business law, civil litigation, construction law and personal injury law. He has been a NH Bar member since 1998 and is admitted to practice in both the United State District Court – New Hampshire and the First Circuit Court. He holds a JD degree from Franklin Pierce Law Center and BA in Political Science from Bates College in Lewiston, Maine. He has taught many seminars, ranging in subject from building civil trial skills to workplace issues in the electronic age. He is also an active member in the Portsmouth community, as a member of the Chamber of Commerce and as a member on several other charitable organization boards.
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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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 Tanner Z. Nolin (2012)
Dunn Law Office
221 Broad Street
PO Box 676
Claremont, NH 03743-0676
603-543-0111
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Sullivan County
Tanner Z. Nolin is a graduated from Lawrence University’s Conservatory of Music with a Bachelor’s degree in Piano Performance (B.M.) and received his Juris Doctor from Franklin Pierce Law Center in 2008. Since his graduation and subsequent passing of the New Hampshire Bar Examination, he has worked for the Law Offices of Wm. Howard Dunn, a 3-person law firm in Claremont, for nearly two years as a general practitioner. Tanner is an active board member to the Communities United for Substance Abuse Prevention (CUFSAP) and also actively engages in local Chamber of Commerce events.
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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 Governors, 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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Marilyn Billings McNamara
Eric D. Cook (2013)
Christopher T. Regan (2012)
Russell F. Hilliard (2012)
