Hon. Gary Hicks (retired)
Justice Hicks was sworn in as the 104th Justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court on January 31, 2006, after serving four years on the Superior Court. Before becoming a judge, Justice Hicks was a commercial litigator with Wiggin & Nourie, then one of New Hampshire’s largest law firms, for 23 years. He retired from the Supreme Court as its Senior Associate Justice on November 30, 2023.
A native of Colebrook, New Hampshire in the state’s rural North Country, Justice Hicks graduated from Bucknell University with a degree in mathematics and from Boston University School of Law, where he was the managing editor of the Law Review. A former chief of the American Inns of Court Leadership Council, he is the recipient of many awards, including the New Hampshire Access to Justice Commission’s Civil Justice in 2021 and the New Hampshire Bar Foundation’s Frank Rowe Kennison Award in 2023. Justice Hicks is a member of the Advisory Board of the St. Paul’s School of Advance Studies. He is actively engaged in recruiting private and public school students from diverse, multicultural backgrounds to pursue careers in the law.