Judge Carol Conboy JD '78 Nominated to NH Supreme Court

The Honorable Carol Ann Conboy, JD '78 and Pierce Law Trustee, was nominated June 1 to New Hampshire's Supreme Court. Governor John Lynch nominated Judge Conboy to replace Justice Richard Galway who retired. A hearing on her nomination will be held Tuesday, June 16, by the Executive Council.

Judge Conboy is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Connecticut who served as an officer in the United States Air Force during the Vietnam War. She received her law degree in 1978 from Franklin Pierce Law Center, after which she clerked for Judge Shane Devine, the former Chief Judge of the New Hampshire Federal District Court. She was a partner in the New Hampshire law firm of McLane, Graf, Raulerson and Middleton and practiced as a trial lawyer with a concentration in employment law. She was appointed to the bench in 1992 and currently serves as Supervisory Justice of the Merrimack County Superior Court.  She has served as Chair of the New Hampshire Supreme Court Advisory Committee on Judicial Ethics, and  Chair of the New Hampshire Superior Court Sentence Review Board.

In addition to her judicial duties, Judge Conboy serves as a member of the Franklin Pierce Law Center Board of Trustees.