Linda Stewart Dalianis
New Hampshire Supreme Court
Linda Stewart Dalianis was sworn in as the 35th Chief Justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court on December 15, 2010 by Gov. John Lynch. She was the first woman to hold a seat on the New Hampshire Supreme Court, and she is the first woman to be Chief Justice. Prior to her appointment to the Supreme Court by Gov. Jeanne Shaheen in the year 2000, Justice Dalianis had served for almost 20 years on the Superior Court bench, both as an associate justice and as Chief Justice.
During her long career in the Judicial Branch, Chief Justice Dalianis has been a member of numerous influential committees that shape the day-to-day work of the courts, including the Supreme Court rules and legislation committees, and the Superior Court committees on guardians, marital masters and alternative dispute resolution. She was a longtime member of the New Hampshire Bar Association Committee on Cooperation with the Courts. She chaired both the "Family Division Implementation Committee" which studied the delivery of court services in family law cases, and the "Judicial Branch Dispute Resolution Committee," which worked on system-wide development of alternative dispute resolution services.
Chief Justice Dalianis was raised in Peterborough, New Hampshire. She is a graduate of the Villa Augustina school in Goffstown, Northeastern University and Suffolk University Law School.
- Justice
- New Hampshire Supreme Court
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- Chief Justice 2010-present
- Justice
- New Hampshire Superior Court
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- Chief Justice 2000
- Marital Master
- New Hampshire Superior Court
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- Associate Attorney
- Hamblett & Kerrigan PA, Nashua, NH
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- Law Clerk
- Sullivan & Worcester, Boston, MA
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- Suffolk University Law School
- J.D. (1974) | Law
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- Northeastern University
- B.A. (1970)
- Honors: cum laude
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- Juris Doctor, Honorius Causa
- Suffolk University
- President’s Award for Community Service
- N.H. Community Technical College
- “Most Powerful Woman in New Hampshire”
- Network Publications
- Centennial Public Affairs Award
- General Federation of Women’s Clubs of New Hampshire
- “New Hampshire’s Most Brilliant Legal Minds”
- Network Publications
- N.H. Supreme Court Dispute Resolution Committee
- Chair
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- American Bar Foundation
- Fellow
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- The American Law Institute
- Member
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- UNH School of Law, Daniel Webster Scholar Program, Program Development and Advisory Committee
- Chair
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- N.H. Supreme Court Advisory Committee on Rules
- Chair
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- N.H. Bar Association Committee on Cooperation with the Courts
- Member
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- American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar, Committee on Bar Admissions
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- National Conference on Bar Examiners, Chair, Task Force on Multijurisdictional Practice
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- N.H. Supreme Court Judicial Education Services Committee
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- N.H. Supreme Court Family Division Implementation Committee
- Chair of the Association's amicus committee
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- Northern New England Judicial Education Committee
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- N.H. Interbranch Criminal and Juvenile Justice Council
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- Activities: Chair, 1999-2000
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- N.H. Supreme Court Legislation Committee
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- N.H. Superior Court Education Committee
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- “New Hampshire’s Performance-Based Variant of the Bar Examination: The Daniel Webster Scholar Program”
- The Bar Examiner
- “Three States Add or Revise Motion Admission Rules: New Hampshire and Vermont Establish Reciprocity and Georgia resurrects ‘Comity’ Admission”
- The Bar Examiner
- “Judges’ Writing Journals”
- The Judges’ Journal
- “Admission to the Bar in Northern New England; An Unprecedented But Modest Proposal”
- The Bar Examiner
- “Reflections Upon Blowing Rock, North Carolina: The Education of a Trial Judge,” Chapter 5, JERRITT Monograph Six, Education for Development: The Voices of Practitioners in the Judiciary
- Commencement Address, Franklin Pierce Law Center
- http://www.courts.state.nh.us/supreme/docs/FPLCCom.Add.2008.pdf
- Remarks on the November 3, 2009 Bar Admission Ceremony
- http://www.courts.state.nh.us/supreme/docs/BarAdmission11-2009.pdf
- Statement by the Honorable Linda S. Dalianis on nomination as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, Executive Council Hearings
- http://www.courts.state.nh.us/press/2010/LSD-statement-nomination.pdf
- Remarks after taking the oath as Chief Justice
- New Hampshire Supreme Court
- http://www.courts.state.nh.us/press/2010/Remarks-by-CJ-Dalianis-121510.pdf audio http://www.courts.nh.gov/SpecialSessions/Swearing-in-of-Chief-Justice-Dalianis.mp3
- Address to The Missouri Bar, NEW HAMPSHIRE BAR MID?WINTER MEETING
- http://www.courts.state.nh.us/supreme/docs/CJLSDNHBAR020411.pdf
