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Bar News - March 4, 2005 MYM 2005: Maureen Raiche Manning Receives Hollman Award At the Gender Equality Breakfast, the Gender Equality Committee presented its Judge Philip Hollman Gender Equality Award to Maureen Raiche Manning, of the Manchester law firm of Nixon, Raiche, Manning, Vogelman & Leach. Manning is deeply involved in the life of her state and has also devoted a great deal of time to educating the legal and legislative communities on issues of gender equality. Manning was the first president of the Women's Bar Association and is completing a three-year term as an at-large member of the NHBA Board of Governors. She also is a director of the NH Bar Foundation and a member of the Gender Equality Committee, the Legislative Committee and is an appointee on the NH Commission for Human Rights. Manning said she was pleased and humbled by the award. "We don't have a conventional family," she said. "We have a home where the mom goes out to work every day-and the dad stays home with the three sons-and they love it!" She also spoke about the importance of the Women's Bar and its mentoring program; she believes it is the most important aspect of their work. In closing her remarks, she quoted Mahatma Gandhi: "Be the change you want to see in the world." The featured speaker for the event was Kelly Ayotte, the first woman to become NH Attorney General. "When I worked at the attorney general's office as an assistant attorney general, I used to walk down that long hall with all the pictures of New Hampshire's attorneys general-and I would ask myself when we would finally see a woman's picture there - I never dreamed that it would be my picture!" Ayotte, seven months pregnant at the time of her appointment, now has a four-month-old daughter. "One advantage," she laughed, "is that now when I get a homicide call in the middle of the night, I'm already up!" Ayotte is not only the chief legal officer of the state, but also the chief law enforcement officer. She said that she has had a lot of support from law enforcement, even though it is a field that is very male dominated. She knows that in many ways she is "breaking the mold" of what people expect-especially when she walks into a meeting in which she might be the only woman. But she is also encouraged by the fact that there are many other women in state government and she truly appreciates how far New Hampshire has come. "I hope some day when my daughter is grown and she walks down that long hall of attorneys general, she will see many portraits of women along with her mother's-and she will not even be surprised; she'll just take it for granted." |
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