Marilla M. Ricker Achievement Award |
Congratulations to the 2024 Marilla M. Ricker Achievement Award Winner
The Honorable Landya B. McCafferty will be accepting her award at the NHWBA Fall Reception on Wednesday, October 9th, 2024 at 5:30pm. Please join us as we congratulate her! You can get more details and register to attend here. Can't attend but want to help celebrate? Consider being a sponsor of our 2024 Fall Reception and/or placing an ad in the event program. You can learn more about our sponsorship opportunities here. 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. Nomination ProcessThe Award(s) will be presented at NHWBA’s Annual Fall Reception. NHWBA Board of Director members currently serving on the Board and/or who served on the Board during the most recent 2-year term are not eligible for the Award. To nominate a woman lawyer: (1) Complete the Nomination Form; (2) Attach a copy of the nominee’s resume or biography; and (3) Describe in your own words how the nominee has:
The narrative should not exceed two typed pages and should contain concrete examples for at least one of the listed criteria. You may attach articles written by the nominee or other letters of support from individuals or organizations. All nominations shall remain active for a period of three years. Materials may be submitted to update and/or supplement a nomination during that same time period. Send the following nomination materials:
to: -or- NHWBA, Marilla M. Ricker Achievement Award 497 Hooksett Road Box 179 Manchester, NH 03104 Past Ricker Award Winners
Back (L to R): Marital Master Deborah Kane Rein, Jennifer Parent, Ellen Musinsky Front (L to R): Hon. Jean K. Burling, Maureen Raiche Manning, Justice Carol Ann Conboy, Lucy C. Hodder
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
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Hon. Landya Boyer McCafferty currently serves as Chief District Judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of New Hampshire. In 2013, President Obama nominated and the Senate confirmed her to the federal bench. Prior to that, she served for 3 ½ years as Magistrate Judge in the same court. She is the first woman to serve as a federal judge in N.H. Before joining the bench, Judge McCafferty served as Disciplinary Counsel for the N.H. Attorney Discipline Office (2004-2010). Most of her career was spent as a staff attorney for the N.H. Public Defenders Office (1995-2003), including two years as an appellate defender arguing appeals on behalf of indigent defendants before the N.H. Supreme Court. Judge McCafferty also worked briefly in private practice for the McLane Law Firm. Immediately out of law school, she clerked for the Hon. Norman H. Stahl at both the federal district and First Circuit Court of Appeals. Judge McCafferty graduated from Harvard University in 1984 and Northeastern University School of Law in 1991. Between college and law school, Judge McCafferty worked at St. Paul’s School in Concord, N.H., where she taught history, coached basketball and started a softball team. Most importantly, that is where she met and married her husband of 38 years, Patrick J. McCafferty. He is the person who encouraged her to pursue her dream of going to law school.
