Marilla M. Ricker Achievement Award

Since 2000, the Marilla M. Ricker Achievement Award has been presented annually at NHWBA's Fall Reception. Its recipients are women lawyers who have achieved professional excellence, and paved the way to success for other women lawyers, or advanced opportunities for women in the legal profession, and/or performed exemplary public service on behalf of women.

You can learn more about Marilla M. Ricker, a woman of many New Hampshire legal firsts, here.

Past Ricker Award Winners

L to R: Ellen Musinsky, Justice Carol Ann Conboy, Emily Rice, Deborah Rein, Connie Rakowsky, Lucy C. Hodder, Mary Susan Leahy, Jennifer Parent, Hon. Susan Carbon

Back (L to R): Carol Hess, Linda Johnson, Cathy Green, Representative Ann McLane Kuster, Deborah Rein, Connie Rakowsky, Emily Rice

Front (L to R): Ellen Musinsky, Hon. Jean K. Burling, Hon. Tina Nadeau, Justice Linda Dalianis, Justice Carol Ann Conboy, Hon. Susan Carbon, Jennifer Parent

Award Recipients

2019	Maureen Raiche Manning
2018	Catherine E. Shanelaris
2017	Hon. Linda Stewart Dalianis
2016	Jennifer L. Parent
2015	Jane E. Young
2014	Carol L. Hess
2013	Hon. Tina L. Nadeau
2012	Connie Rakowsky
2011	Lucy C. Hodder
2010	Marital Master Deborah Kane Rein
2009	Ellen J. Musinsky
2008	Hon. Carol Ann Conboy
2007	Sherilyn Burnett Young
2006	Barbara Keshen
2005	Mary Pilkington-Casey
2004	Ann McLane Kuster
2003	Hon. Jean K. Burling Emily G. Rice
2002	Linda S. Johnson Deborah J. Cooper
2001	Cathy J. Green Mary Susan Leahy
2000	Hon. Susan B. Carbon Martha Van Oot

Nomination Process

The nomination process for 2019 is now closed. Please stay tuned for details about how to nominate someone for the 2020 award.

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