United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire

The United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire (in case citation

Case citation

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s, D.N.H.) is the Federal district court

United States district court

The United States district courts are the general trial courts of the United States federal court system. Both civil and criminal cases are filed in the district court, which is a court of law, equity, and admiralty. There is a United States bankruptcy court associated with each United States...

whose jurisdiction comprises the state of New Hampshire

New Hampshire

New Hampshire is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America. The state was named after the southern English county of Hampshire. It is bordered by Massachusetts to the south, Vermont to the west, Maine and the Atlantic Ocean to the east, and the Canadian...

. The Warren B. Rudman U.S. Courthouse for the New Hampshire district is located in Concord

Concord, New Hampshire

The city of Concord is the capital of the state of New Hampshire in the United States. It is also the county seat of Merrimack County. As of the 2010 census, its population was 42,695....

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Appeals from the District of New Hampshire are taken to the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit

United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit

The United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit is a federal court with appellate jurisdiction over the district courts in the following districts:* District of Maine* District of Massachusetts...

(except for patent

Patent

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claims and claims against the U.S. government under the Tucker Act

Tucker Act

Through the Tucker Act , the United States government has waived its sovereign immunity with respect to certain lawsuits....

, which are appealed to the Federal Circuit

United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

-Vacancies and pending nominations:-List of former judges:-Chief judges:Notwithstanding the foregoing, when the court was initially created, Congress had to resolve which chief judge of the predecessor courts would become the first chief judge...

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The United States Attorney's Office for the District of New Hampshire represents the United States in civil and criminal litigation in the court. The United States Attorney from 2001-2009 was Thomas P. Colantuono. John Kacavas has been nominated to replace interim U.S. Attorney Michael J. Gunnison. http://www.seacoastonline.com/articles/20090515-NEWS-90515039

Current judges

Judge	Appointed by	Began active service	Ended active service	Ended senior status	End reason
Paul J. Barbadoro Paul J. Barbadoro Paul J. Barbadoro is a United States District Judge for the District of New Hampshire.Born in Providence, Rhode Island, Paul grew up in Acton, Massachusetts. Barbadoro graduated from Gettysburg College in 1977 and earned a J.D. from Boston College Law School in 1980...	George H. W. Bush George H. W. Bush George Herbert Walker Bush is an American politician who served as the 41st President of the United States . He had previously served as the 43rd Vice President of the United States , a congressman, an ambassador, and Director of Central Intelligence.Bush was born in Milton, Massachusetts, to...		Incumbent	–	–
Steven J. McAuliffe Steven J. McAuliffe Steven James McAuliffe is an American attorney and judge, currently Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire. He was the husband of Christa McAuliffe, one of the victims of the 1986 Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.Steven McAuliffe graduated from Virginia...	George H. W. Bush George H. W. Bush George Herbert Walker Bush is an American politician who served as the 41st President of the United States . He had previously served as the 43rd Vice President of the United States , a congressman, an ambassador, and Director of Central Intelligence.Bush was born in Milton, Massachusetts, to...		Incumbent	–	–
Joseph Normand Laplante Joseph Normand Laplante Joseph Normand Laplante is a federal judge for the United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire.He was nominated by on , to a seat vacated by ; and subsequently confirmed by the Senate on December 14, 2007, receiving his commission on .-Education:* Georgetown University, A.B.,...	George W. Bush George W. Bush George Walker Bush is an American politician who served as the 43rd President of the United States, from 2001 to 2009. Before that, he was the 46th Governor of Texas, having served from 1995 to 2000....		Incumbent	–	–
Joseph A. Diclerico Jr. Joseph A. Diclerico Jr. Joseph A. Diclerico Jr. is a United States federal judge.Born in Lynn, Massachusetts, Diclerico received a B.A. from Williams College in 1963 and an LL.B. from Yale Law School in 1966. He was a law clerk, Hon. Aloysius J. Connor, U.S. District Court, District of New Hampshire from 1966 to 1967. He...	George H. W. Bush George H. W. Bush George Herbert Walker Bush is an American politician who served as the 41st President of the United States . He had previously served as the 43rd Vice President of the United States , a congressman, an ambassador, and Director of Central Intelligence.Bush was born in Milton, Massachusetts, to...			Incumbent	–

Former judges

Judge	Appointed by	Began active service	Ended active service	Ended senior status	End reason
Edgar Aldrich Edgar Aldrich Edgar Aldrich was a United States federal judge.Aldrich was born in Pittsburg, New Hampshire. He read law in 1866 and received an LL.B. from University of Michigan in 1868. He was in private practice of law in Colebrook, New Hampshire from 1868 to 1881, also serving as a county solicitor for Coos...	Benjamin Harrison Benjamin Harrison Benjamin Harrison was the 23rd President of the United States . Harrison, a grandson of President William Henry Harrison, was born in North Bend, Ohio, and moved to Indianapolis, Indiana at age 21, eventually becoming a prominent politician there...			–	death
Hugh H. Bownes Hugh H. Bownes Hugh Henry Bownes was a long-serving federal judge in the United States. A native of New York City, Bownes graduated from Columbia College in 1941, and after serving in the United States Marine Corps during World War II, graduated from Columbia Law School in 1948.Bownes then moved to New...	Lyndon B. Johnson Lyndon B. Johnson Lyndon Baines Johnson , often referred to as LBJ, was the 36th President of the United States after his service as the 37th Vice President of the United States...			–	reappointment
Daniel Clark Daniel Clark (New Hampshire) Daniel Clark was an American politician who served in the New Hampshire legislature and the United States Senate....	Andrew Johnson Andrew Johnson Andrew Johnson was the 17th President of the United States . As Vice-President of the United States in 1865, he succeeded Abraham Lincoln following the latter's assassination. Johnson then presided over the initial and contentious Reconstruction era of the United States following the American...

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| Aloysius Joseph Connor

Aloysius Joseph Connor

Aloysius Joseph Connor was a United States federal judge.Born in Manchester, New Hampshire, Connor received an LL.B. from Catholic University of America School of Law in 1918...

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Franklin D. Roosevelt

Franklin Delano Roosevelt , also known by his initials, FDR, was the 32nd President of the United States and a central figure in world events during the mid-20th century, leading the United States during a time of worldwide economic crisis and world war...

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| Shane Devine

Shane Devine

Shane Devine was a United States federal judge.Born in Manchester, New Hampshire, Devine was in the United States Army during World War II, from 1944 to 1945. He received a B.A. from the University of New Hampshire in 1949 and a J.D. from Boston College Law School in 1952...

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Jimmy Carter

James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr. is an American politician who served as the 39th President of the United States and was the recipient of the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize, the only U.S. President to have received the Prize after leaving office...

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| Matthew Harvey

Matthew Harvey

Matthew Harvey was a was a lawyer, politician, and long-serving United States federal judge from Hopkinton, New Hampshire....

||Andrew Jackson

Andrew Jackson

Andrew Jackson was the seventh President of the United States . Based in frontier Tennessee, Jackson was a politician and army general who defeated the Creek Indians at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend , and the British at the Battle of New Orleans...

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| Martin F. Loughlin

Martin F. Loughlin

Martin Francis Loughlin was a judge in the United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire from 1979 to 1995....

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Jimmy Carter

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| George Franklin Morris

George Franklin Morris

George Franklin Morris is a former United States federal judge.Born in Vershire, Vermont, Morris read law to enter the bar in 1891. He was in private practice in Lisbon, New Hampshire from 1891 to 1906, and in Lancaster, New Hampshire from 1906 to 1921...

||Warren G. Harding

Warren G. Harding

Warren Gamaliel Harding was the 29th President of the United States . A Republican from Ohio, Harding was an influential self-made newspaper publisher. He served in the Ohio Senate , as the 28th Lieutenant Governor of Ohio and as a U.S. Senator...

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| John Pickering

John Pickering (judge)

John Pickering served as Chief Justice of the New Hampshire Superior Court of Judicature and as Judge for the United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire...

||George Washington

George Washington

George Washington was the dominant military and political leader of the new United States of America from 1775 to 1799. He led the American victory over Great Britain in the American Revolutionary War as commander-in-chief of the Continental Army from 1775 to 1783, and presided over the writing of...

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| John Samuel Sherburne

John Samuel Sherburne

John Samuel Sherburne was a lawyer, politician, and United States federal judge from Portsmouth, New Hampshire.Born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Sherburne graduated from Dartmouth College in 1776 and attended the law department of Harvard University. He read law to be admitted to the bar and...

||Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson was the principal author of the United States Declaration of Independence and the Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom , the third President of the United States and founder of the University of Virginia...

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| Norman H. Stahl

Norman H. Stahl

Norman H. Stahl is a judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.A graduate of Tufts College and Harvard Law School, Stahl was in private practice in New Hampshire for 34 years before President George H. W. Bush nominated him to the United States District Court for the...

||George H. W. Bush

George H. W. Bush

George Herbert Walker Bush is an American politician who served as the 41st President of the United States . He had previously served as the 43rd Vice President of the United States , a congressman, an ambassador, and Director of Central Intelligence.Bush was born in Milton, Massachusetts, to...

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| John Sullivan

John Sullivan

John Sullivan was the third son of Irish immigrants, a United States general in the Revolutionary War, a delegate in the Continental Congress and a United States federal judge....

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George Washington

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