Wednesday October 15th: Rockefeller 003, 4:30pm...
"Public Service is not for the Faint of Heart"
A lecture by John Broderick
John Broderick will discuss his early interest in public service, the forces that shaped that interest as it matured, and the realities and hard lessons he learned in his 15 years of public service and in the public service of others he knew and admired.
He will also speak publicly for the first time about the NH Supreme Court Impeachment that consumed the Court, and his personal reflections on his personal and professional life and the state of New Hampshire in 2000
Followed by a free dinner with John Broderick! RSVP here:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/student-dinner-with-john-broderick-tickets-13631581427
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John T. Broderick, Jr., was named the first Warren B. Rudman chairman at UNH Law and executive director of its Rudman Center for Justice, Leadership, and Public Policy, starting on July 1, 2014. Broderick became the fifth dean of the University of New Hampshire School of Law on January 28, 2011, and stepped down on June 30, 2014. Prior to the UNH School of Law appointment, Broderick served on the New Hampshire Supreme Court for 15 years, retiring in the fall of 2010 to join UNH School of Law. During his tenure as Chief Justice over the past six years, he was the administrative head of all the state’s courts, in addition to his judicial duties, and became nationally known for reexamining the way the court system works and redesigning it to meet the challenges of the 21st century.
Under Broderick’s leadership, New Hampshire established an “Access to Justice Commission” to help enhance programs that provide low-cost legal services to poor and low-income citizens. Broderick wrote, along with Ronald George, Chief Justice of the California Supreme Court, a 2010New York Times op-ed lamenting the rise of unrepresented litigants and calling for an expansion of limited-scope representation. A frequent speaker around the nation on the need to improve and modernize our judicial system, Broderick was appointed by President Bill Clinton to the Board of the Legal Services Corporation (LSC), on which he served for 10 years.
Prior to serving on the Supreme Court, Broderick was a litigation attorney in the Manchester, NH, law firm of Devine, Millimet, Stahl & Branch, and was a founding shareholder of Broderick & Dean, Professional Association (formerly Merrill & Broderick). He has also taught as an adjunct professor at the Amos Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth for more than 10 years. He is a graduate of the University of Virginia School of Law and, magna cum laude, of the College of the Holy Cross.
Broderick is the recipient of several honorary degrees, is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, and recently became the only jurist ever to receive a Lifetime Achievement Award from the New Hampshire Business & Industry Association in recognition
of his efforts to ensure that justice remains accessible, affordable, and understandable. He was President of the New Hampshire Bar Association from 1990 to 1991. Last year, he was presented with the Justice Williams A. Grimes Award for Judicial Professionalism
and in 2007, he received the L. Jonathan Ross Award for Outstanding Commitment to Legal Services for the Poor. He was also recently inducted into the Warren E. Burger Society by the National Center for State Courts.