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Its first President was Ira Perley. In 1967, NHBA petitioned the Legislature to amend its acts of incorporation to change its name to "New Hampshire Bar Association". The next year, the New Hampshire Supreme Court unified the bar (making membership mandatory for practicing law in New Hampshire) for a three-year trial period.
Perley was elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society in 1866. [6] In 1873, Perley was president of the New Hampshire Bar Association. [7] Perley died on February 26, 1874, in Concord, New Hampshire. [4]
As a lawyer, he was president of the New Hampshire Bar Association for the 2006 to 2007 term, and chair of that Bar Association's Legislation Committee from 2007 to 2009. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] [ 12 ] [ 3 ] In 2006, he was also a member of the New Hampshire Supreme Court's Task Force on Public Access to Court Records, and served on the task force's ...
He was in private practice in Lisbon, New Hampshire from 1891 to 1906, and in Lancaster, New Hampshire from 1906 to 1921. He was also the County Solicitor for Grafton County, New Hampshire from 1897 to 1901, and a member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives in 1905. [2] In 1917, he was president of the New Hampshire Bar Association. [3]
Honorary Fellow, New Hampshire Bar Foundation, 2003; Recipient, 2002 Justice William A. Grimes Award for Judicial Professionalism, NH Bar Association, (June 2002 and 2010) Recipient, L. Jonathan Ross Award for Outstanding Commitment to Legal Services for the Poor, NH Bar Association, February 2007; Member, American Law Institute, 2007 – present
He was chairman of the New Hampshire Judicial Retirement Plan Board of Trustees from 2004 to 2008, and thereafter Executive Director of the Plan. He received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the New Hampshire Association for Justice in 2014 and a Distinguished Service to the Profession Award from the New Hampshire Bar Association in 2017.
He was a member of the Conference of Senior Circuit Judges (now the Judicial Conference of the United States) from 1922 to 1938. [1] In 1933, he also served as president of the New Hampshire Bar Association. [2] He assumed senior status on March 23, 1939. His service terminated on September 25, 1949, due to his death in Manchester. [1] [3]
He was a member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives in 1911 and was a delegate to the New Hampshire State Constitutional Conventions of 1918, 1930, 1938, and 1948, serving as president in 1948. In 1940, he also served as president of the New Hampshire Bar Association. [1]