Portsmouth attorney John E. Lyons, Jr. has been confirmed to the New Hampshire State Board of Education. Lyons will serve a five-year term, replacing Judith Reever, whose term will expire on Jan. 31, 2004.

Lyons, 48, was nominated by Gov. Craig Benson. Lyons was recently re-elected to the Portsmouth School Board, where he is serving his second term. He is a lifelong resident of Portsmouth and has served as a member of the city’s Business and Education Collaborative, Curriculum Council and the Greater Portsmouth Educational Council. He owns and operates the Lyons Law Offices in Portsmouth.

Joseph A. DiBrigida, an attorney with Sheehan Phinney Bass + Green, Manchester, has been re-elected to the Board of Child Health Services in Manchester, a health program for children from low-income families in the Greater Manchester area. DiBrigida previously served on the organization’s board for six years, including two as president and one as chair of its endowment campaign, which raised $1 million.

A number of New Hampshire attorneys were recently elected to the board of the New Hampshire Business Committee for the Arts (NHBCA). Susan V. Duprey, president of the law firm Devine, Millimet & Branch, was elected treasurer; and inactive NHBA member Charles C. Cornelio, executive vice president of Jefferson Pilot Financial; inactive NHBA member John F. Swope; Robert A. Wells, of McLane, Graf, Raulerson & Middleton, Manchester; and Kimon S. Zachos of Sheehan Phinney Bass + Green, Manchester, will continue to serve on the NHBCA board.

Sheehan Phinney Bass + Green attorney Michael C. Harvell was recently elected chair of the New Hampshire Preservation Alliance, the statewide organization dedicated to preserving historic buildings, communities and landscapes in NH through leadership, education and advocacy. In addition to serving in this new role, Harvell is also finishing his third term as one of two NH advisors to the National Trust for Historic Preservation.

Alice B. Chamberlin, an inactive member of the NH Bar, was recently elected chair of the board of trustees of the New Hampshire Chapter of The Nature Conservancy. Chamberlin was an environmental policy advisor for former NH Gov. Hugh Gallen and served as executive director of the Environmental Law Council at Franklin Pierce Law Center. She received her J.D. from FPLC in 1978.

Attorney David P. Eby of Devine, Millimet & Branch, Manchester, has been elected to serve a one-year term as president of the Greater Manchester Habitat for Humanity. Habitat for Humanity is a nonprofit Christian housing ministry that works in partnership with people in need to build and renovate decent, affordable housing.

Attorney Jerry Grossman of the Grossman Law Office, Rochester, was recently elected chair of the Greater Rochester Chamber of Commerce.

Peter McGrath, a Concord attorney, recently treated longtime friends and clients, the Brayshaw family of Warner, to a weekend getaway to the Super Bowl, including end-zone tickets to the game. The family was mourning the Dec. 1 death of Frances Brayshaw, who was killed in a traffic accident. "This trip isn’t about the money, the game or the 24-ounce steak at Taste of Texas," said McGrath. It’s about helping a special family do a little living again." McGrath’s generosity was the subject of an article in the New Hampshire Sunday News.

Portsmouth attorney Jennifer Lemire, a member of Trial Lawyers Care, an organization set up to help the families of the victims of 9/11, is representing the two daughters of Kathy and Mike Shearer, passengers on one of the planes that crashed into the World Trade Center. In a feature article in the Portsmouth Herald, Lemire, who is working on the case pro bono, said she has grown close to the Shearers during the course of the case. She said her clients are aware of the criticism voiced by many of those who pursue any kind of recovery for their losses—but Lemire expresses sympathy and understanding for the sisters. "I feel very fortunate to be in a position to assist," she says.

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