Marilyn Billings McNamara

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Marilyn is a domestic relations lawyer with over thirty years of experience in all aspects of the field. Following graduation from the University of New Hampshire School of Law in Concord, she co-founded the Family and Housing Law Clinic (now the Civil Clinic) at the Center and served as co-director and instructor for the clinic’s first year. She developed a statewide domestic relations practice based in Lebanon, NH, followed by eight years as the executive director of the Legal Advice and Referral Center, a Concord-based federally funded poverty law program providing family and housing law advice, counsel and referral services to low-income clients.

Marilyn is the President of the New Hampshire Bar Association, a member of the Board of Directors of the New Hampshire Bar Foundation and a member of the Board of Bar Governors of the New Hampshire Bar Association.  Her service to New Hampshire has included membership on the Judicial Council, Pro Se Task Force Study Group and Access to Justice Commission.

A recipient of the L. Jonathan Ross Award for outstanding commitment to legal services for the poor, Marilyn was also a member of the first Judicial Selection Commission established in New Hampshire and has written on legal issues pertaining to children, ethics, professionalism and domestic relations practice and recently authored a chapter on children and the law for “A Practical Guide to Divorce in New Hampshire.”

She is Secretary of the Board of Directors of Andy’s Summer Playhouse in Wilton Center, NH, a unique theater program producing original plays with and for children aged eight to eighteen.

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