Gideon v. Wainwright,372 U.S. 335 (1963),was a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision in which the Court ruled that the Sixth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution requires U.S. states to provide attorneys to criminal defendants who are unable to afford their own. The case extended the right to counsel,which had been found under the Fifth and Sixth Amendments to impose requirements on the federal government,by imposing those requirements upon the states as well.
Robert Houghwout Jackson was an American lawyer,jurist,and politician who served as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1941 until his death in 1954. He had previously served as United States Solicitor General and United States Attorney General,and is the only person to have held all three of those offices. Jackson was also notable for his work as Chief United States Prosecutor at the Nuremberg trials of Nazi war criminals following World War II.
The New Hampshire Supreme Court is the supreme court of the U.S. state of New Hampshire and sole appellate court of the state. The Supreme Court is seated in the state capital,Concord. The Court is composed of a Chief Justice and four Associate Justices appointed by the Governor and Executive Council to serve during "good behavior" until retirement or the age of seventy. The senior member of the Court is able to specially assign lower-court judges,as well as retired justices,to fill vacancies on the Court.
George Washington Campbell was an American statesman who served as a U.S. Representative,Senator,Tennessee Supreme Court Justice,U.S. Ambassador to Russia and the 5th United States Secretary of the Treasury from February to October 1814.
James Thompson was a lawyer,politician and jurist from Pennsylvania. He served in the United States Congress and in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives,where he was Speaker in 1835. He also served as a federal judge and as a member of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.
Louis Crosby Wyman was an American politician and lawyer. He was a U.S. Representative and,for three days,a U.S. Senator from New Hampshire. This was one of the shortest tenures in Senate history. He was a member of the Republican Party.
Maurice James Murphy Jr. was an American politician and lawyer from New Hampshire. He was the Attorney General of New Hampshire and an appointed United States Senator.
Simeon Olcott was a New Hampshire attorney and politician. His career began before the American Revolution and continued afterwards,and among the positions in which he served were Chief Judge of the New Hampshire Supreme Court (1795-1801) and United States Senator from New Hampshire (1801-1805).
David S. Shrager (1935–2005) of Philadelphia,Pennsylvania was a United States trial lawyer,author,speaker,and philanthropist. A former president of the Association of Trial Lawyers of America,he specialized in major and complex civil litigation representing consumers,injured healthcare workers and individuals,and appeared before the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.
Samuel Der-Yeghiayan is a former United States District Court Judge of the Northern District of Illinois. He was appointed in 2003. Der-Yeghiayan is noteworthy as being the first Armenian immigrant U.S. District Court Judge in the United States and served over 40 years of distinguished government service.
Charles Terrance Canady is an American attorney and judge serving on the Supreme Court of Florida since 2008. He previously served as Chief Justice from 2010 to 2012 and from 2018 to 2022.
Benjamin J. Rabin was an American lawyer,jurist,World War I veteran,and politician who served one term as a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from New York from 1945 to 1947.
Jeremiah Smith was a United States representative for New Hampshire,United States Attorney for New Hampshire,a United States circuit judge of the United States Circuit Court for the First Circuit,the sixth governor of New Hampshire and chief justice of the New Hampshire Superior Court of Judicature and the New Hampshire Supreme Judicial Court. He was a member of the Federalist Party.
John T. Broderick Jr. is a former Chief Justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court. He served as Associate Justice of the court from 1995 to 2004 and as its Chief Justice from 2004 to 2010. Broderick holds a J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law and a B.A. from the College of the Holy Cross. Broderick also served as Dean and President of the University of New Hampshire School of Law until May 2015. Since 2015,Broderick has been on a journey to end the stigma surrounding mental health in New Hampshire.
Ernest D. Preate,Jr. is a former Republican Pennsylvania Attorney General. As Attorney General,he argued before the United States Supreme Court in the landmark case,Planned Parenthood of Southeast Pennsylvania v. Casey on behalf of Robert P. Casey,then governor of Pennsylvania. Preate also successfully argued another landmark case,Blystone v. Pennsylvania in the United States Supreme Court addressing the death penalty.
William S. Greenberg is an American lawyer who serves as a judge of the United States Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims. Previously he was a New Jersey attorney in private practice.
Gary Ellis Hicks is an American lawyer who served as an associate justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court from 2006 to 2023. He was sworn in January 31,2006.
Susan Gertrude Braden is a former judge of the United States Court of Federal Claims. Braden was appointed to that court in 2003 by President George W. Bush. She was appointed chief judge by President Donald Trump on March 13,2017 and assumed senior status on July 13,2018,and retired in 2019.
Patrick Eugene Donovan is an American lawyer who has served as an associate justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court since 2018.
Charles Carmine Antonio Baldi was an American merchant,banker,newspaper publisher,entrepreneur and philanthropist who lived in Philadelphia,Pennsylvania. He immigrated from Italy at age 14 and pursued a career that gained him recognition in the early 1900s as a prominent leader among the growing population of Americans citizens of Italian descent. Baldi further achieved strong relationships with the existing American political and business communities in the greater Philadelphia area that developed from his business enterprises,which included social and philanthropic organizations that centered around supporting the lifestyle of Italian immigrant people to attain improved economic status and preserve traditional cultural heritage while living in the United States.
