Legislative Presentation and Advocacy (3/03)Public Sector Law Section CLE

Hon. Robert J. Lynn, who retired from judicial service on August 23, 2019, served as chief justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court from April 2018 through August 2019, and was an associate justice of the Supreme Court from 2010 through 2018. He was the chief justice of the Superior Court from 2004 through 2010, and was an associate justice of the Superior Court from 1992 through 2004 after a career that took him across New England, New York and Pennsylvania. Justice Lynn earned his B.S. from the University of New Haven, CT in 1971 and his J.D. from the University of Connecticut School of Law in 1975. Prior to his judicial appointment, he was a special agent with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration; law clerk for the Hon. J. William Ditter, Jr. at the U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania; special attorney for the Organized Crime Strike Force in the Eastern District of NY; assistant U.S. attorney (and later first assistant) for the District of NH; associate and partner at Cleveland, Waters & Bass, PA; of counsel and director at McSwiney, Jones, Semple & Douglas; assistant U.S. attorney for the Special Prosecutions Unit in the District of CT; assistant U.S. attorney in the District of MA; and chief and New England Coordinator for the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force. Justice Lynn was an adjunct faculty member for the Massachusetts School of Law until 2004, and prior to that was an instructor at the Attorney General’s Advocacy Institute in Washington, DC. Since 2011 he has been the chair of the Supreme Court’s Advisory Committee on Rules. Justice Lynn is a past member of many bar committees, including the Continuing Legal Education Committee. He is the author of numerous published works and the recipient of many academic awards. 9/19