Richard Uchida, of Orr & Reno in Concord, was recently elected vice chair of the Board of Trustees of Colby College in Waterville, Maine. He is currently chair of the school’s Educational Policy Committee, and will soon join the Executive Budget and Finance Committees.

Katherine Brown, an attorney with Hoefle Phoenix Gormley & Roberts in Portsmouth, was recently appointed by the US Commission on Civil Rights to the NH Civil Rights Panel, a bipartisan federal agency that conducts research and advises the President and Congress on civil rights issues.

Carol Stamatakis, an attorney at the NH Council on Developmental Disabilities in Concord, was recently appointed by the US Commission on Civil Rights to the NH Civil Rights Panel, a bipartisan federal agency that conducts research and advises the President and Congress on civil rights issues.

Ovid Lamontagne, an attorney at Devine Millimet in Manchester, was recently presented with the Citizen of the Year Award by the Daniel Webster Council, Boy Scouts of America, which recognizes an individual, business or organization for contributing to the quality of life in New Hampshire.

Susan Duprey, a shareholder with Devine Millimet in Manchester was recently elected as a member of the Board of Directors of Harvard Pilgrim Healthcare, a non-profit health plan which provides a full variety of insurance plan options and self-funding arrangements for more than one million members.

Leslie Leonard, an attorney with Boynton Waldron Doleac in Portsmouth, was recently elected to the Board of Directors for New Generation, a homeless shelter for pregnant and parenting women of infants. Leonard has been a NH Bar member since 2006.