Join us for our 18th Annual Fall Reception on Thursday, October 8, 2015. At the reception, we will present the 2015 Marilla M. Ricker Achievement Award to Jane E. Young, Esquire.  Ann Rice of the NH Attorney General's Office will provide the introduction.  

The Ricker Award is presented annually to a woman lawyer who has achieved professional excellence, and paved the way to success for other women lawyers, advanced opportunities for women in the profession and/or performed exemplary service on behalf of women.  Attorney Young meets and exceeds all of these requirements.

Join us for a night of recognition of the achievements of Attorney Young, and for an opportunity to network with fellow attorneys and judges from across the state.  The reception is open to the public.  Hors d'oeuvres will be provided and a cash bar will be available.  At the reception, we will also present the 2015 Winnie McLaughlin Scholarship to Lyndsay Robinson, a very deserving second year student at UNH School of Law.  Additionally, a 50/50 raffle will be held to support the Winnie McLaughlin Scholarship Fund.

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Katherine Brown (r) with NCWBA Executive Director Diane Rynerson (l).

Some of our members have reached impressive milestones in their careers:

Lauren Simon Irwin has been with Upton & Hatfield for 19 years.

Jennifer Parent has been with McLane Middleton for 20 years.

Congratulations to both!  If you have job news to share, please let us know.

We take many things for granted in our busy lives.  Most of us do not give a second thought about having had the opportunity to go to law school and to practice law.  But once it was not so.  In 1890, women were not allowed to practice law in New Hampshire even if they were licensed in another state.  Attorney Marilla Ricker changed all that.  She filed a highly controversial lawsuit in the NH Supreme Court challenging the exclusionary practice of admitting only men to the practice of law...and won!  Petition of Ricker, 66 N.H. 207 (1890).
 
There are only seven portraits of women hanging in the NH State House.  In 2013, legislation was passed requisitioning a portrait of Marilla Ricker, albeit without state funding.  The NHWBA and the League of Women Voters NH have collaborated to raise funds to complete the Ricker portrait.  We are off to a great start, but we still have a long way to go!
 
As you think about what your career means to you, please consider donating to the Marilla Ricker Portrait Fund.  To review a brochure about the fundraising efforts, click here.  To donate to this worthwhile project, click here.

What if you were poor and you were wrongfully denied medical care? Or you were a victim of domestic violence and had no place to go? Or you were illegally evicted from your apartment and facing homelessness?

New Hampshire Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Violence Hall of Fame Luncheon will be held at LaBelle Winery in Amherst, NH on Tuesday, October 13, 2015.  To register and learn more, click here.