Charles Gywnne "Chuck" Douglas III (born December 2,
1942) is a trial lawyer and a former United States Representative from
New Hampshire and a New Hampshire Supreme Court Associate Justice.
Born in Abington Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, Douglas
attended schools in Fort Washington, Pennsylvania. He graduated from
William Penn Charter School, Philadelphia, 1960, and attended Wesleyan
University from 1960 to 1962, He received a B.A. from University of New
Hampshire in 1965 and a J.D. from Boston University School of Law in
1968.
Douglas was admitted to the bar in 1968 and commenced
practice in Manchester, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, from 1970 to
1972. He was legal counsel and legislative counsel to Governor Meldrim
Thomson Jr. from 1973 to 1974. He served as associate justice, New
Hampshire superior court, from 1974 to 1976, as associate justice, New
Hampshire Supreme Court, from 1977 to 1983, and senior justice from 1983
to 1985.
Elected as a Republican to the 101st Congress, Douglas
served as United States Representative for the state of New Hampshire
from (January 3, 1989–January 3, 1991). He served as a member of the
Committee on the Judiciary from January 3, 1989 to October 28, 1990.[1]
He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1990 to the 102nd
Congress.
Douglas has served as an Adjunct Faculty member at
University of New Hampshire School of Law and at the American Bar
Association’s Appellate Judge’s Seminars. He has served as Chairman of
the New Hampshire Constitution Bicentennial Education Commission and a
member of the Constitutional Convention Study Commission.
In
addition to publishing over forty articles, Douglas is the author of two
books. One, New Hampshire Practice and Procedure: Family Law is the
definitive source for New Hampshire Divorce and family law, and is used
by New Hampshire divorce and family law attorneys, and is frequently
referred to in New Hampshire Supreme Court decisions. He also authored
the New Hampshire Evidence Manual. This evidence book is relied upon by
New Hampshire lawyers and courts during litigation, and is cited to by
the New Hampshire Supreme Court.
A retired Colonel with the New
Hampshire Army National Guard (1968 to 1991), Douglas practices law as
the President of Douglas Leonard & Garvey P.C., a seven-attorney,
plaintiff's and employment law firm in Concord.
Because of his
experience as a New Hampshire Judge and New Hampshire Supreme Court
Justice as well as his record of success as a trial lawyer, Douglas is
frequently requested to lecture on personal injury and employment law
matters.
He is a resident of Bow, Merrimack County, New Hampshire, and
is married to Debra M. Douglas. |
