He served as Acting Attorney General for New Hampshire from December 2002 to March 2003 and was responsible for the enforcement of all criminal laws and the civil representation of the Governor, the Executive Council and all state agencies. During his 19 years in the Attorney General’s Office, he was Chief of the Civil Bureau, Director of Civil Litigation, Associate Attorney General responsible for supervising the Division of Legal Counsel and, in 2001, he was appointed Deputy Attorney General by the Governor and Executive Council.

He has served as a member of the Judicial Council, the N.H. Supreme Court Standing Committee on Character and Fitness, the Fire Standards and Training Commission and the Police Standards and Training Council.

Mr. Judge successfully defended medical malpractice and federal civil rights actions in jury trials in state and federal courts. He has handled over twenty appellate cases in the New Hampshire Supreme Court, the First Circuit, and the United States Supreme Court including Sirrell v. State, an expedited appeal to the New Hampshire Supreme Court that reversed a trial court order that the state repay $850 million in taxes. He has taught trial practice courses in New Hampshire and for the National Association of Attorneys General.

From 1997 through 2000, he was chief counsel to the state team that restructured the electric industry in New Hampshire, forging favorable settlements with Public Service Company of New Hampshire, the New Hampshire Electric Cooperative and Granite State Electric.

He represented the Attorney General before the legislature, testifying in front of numerous house and senate committees. In addition, he attended meetings of the Governor and Executive Council and provided advice about legal issues relating to the administration of the state.

Prior to joining the Attorney General’s Office in 1984, the New Hampshire Superior Court selected him to be a law clerk in 1982 and he was selected to be the senior law clerk in 1983.

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Mr. Judge was appointed by Governor Benson and the Executive Council in 2003 to a commission tasked by the New Hampshire Legislature with recommending changes to the state's right-to-know law, in light of advances in computer technology. The duties of the Right to Know Study Commission, by the terms of its enabling legislation, ended in October 2004 when it filed its final report. The Commission was renewed in 2005 by an act of the New Hampshire Legislature (House Bill 41) as a five-year oversight  commission. Mr. Judge was appointed to the new commission by Governor John Lynch and the Executive Council, effective July 13, 2005.