Linda S. Dalianis at a glance
- Current role
- Former Judge
- Current assignment
- Supreme Court of New Hampshire
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- New Hampshire · State
- Judicial service
- Former
Linda S. Dalianis
Former Judge · Supreme Court of New Hampshire
Biography
Professional career
- Judge, Supreme Court of New Hampshire, 2000-present
- Her judicial career included service as a marital master, Superior Court judge and chief justice, and eighteen years on the Supreme Court before retiring in 2018.
- Linda Stewart Dalianis was the first woman to serve on the New Hampshire Supreme Court and the first woman to hold the position of Chief Justice there, from 2010 until her retirement in 2018
- In December 2010, Governor John Lynch nominated her as Chief Justice, a role she held until April 1, 2018, when she retired at the mandatory age of 70 under the New Hampshire Constitution
- Appointed by Governor Jeanne Shaheen in 2000, Dalianis joined the New Hampshire Supreme Court as its first woman justice
- Retired New Hampshire Supreme Court chief justice and the first woman to hold that position
Education
- Dalianis was raised in Peterborough, New Hampshire, and attended Villa Augustina School before earning her B.A. from Northeastern University in 1970 and her J.D. from Suffolk University Law School in 1974
Additional information
- Attorney, Private practice, Nashua, New Hampshire; 1974-1979
- English degree at Northeastern in 1970 and a Suffolk law degree in 1974.
- Born October 1, 1948.
- Private practice before becoming a marital master and then judge.
- She received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Nashua Bar Association and the Marilla Ricker Award from the New Hampshire Women’s Bar Association
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Supreme Court of New Hampshire current judicial profile
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