Joseph Normand Laplante

Joseph Normand Laplante
Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire
In office 2011 – October 31, 2018
Preceded by	Steven J. McAuliffe
Succeeded by	Landya B. McCafferty
Judge of the United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire
Incumbent
Assumed office December 28, 2007
Appointed by	George W. Bush
Preceded by	Joseph A. Diclerico Jr.
Personal details
Born	Joseph Normand Laplante 1965 (age 58–59) Nashua, New Hampshire
Education	Georgetown University (A.B.) Georgetown University Law Center (J.D.)

Joseph Normand Laplante (born 1965) is a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire.

Education and career

Laplante was born in Nashua, New Hampshire. He received an Artium Baccalaureus degree from Georgetown University in 1987. He received a Juris Doctor from the Georgetown University Law School in 1990. He was in private practice in New Hampshire, from 1990 to 1993. He was a senior assistant attorney general in the Office of the Attorney General of the State of New Hampshire, from 1993 to 1998. He was a trial attorney in the Criminal Division of the United States Department of Justice, from 1998 to 1999. He was an Assistant United States Attorney in the United States Attorney's Office for the District of Massachusetts, from 2000 to 2002. He was the First Assistant United States Attorney in the United States Attorney's Office for the District of New Hampshire, from 2002 to 2007.

Federal judicial service

Laplante was nominated by President George W. Bush on June 13, 2007, to a seat vacated by Joseph A. Diclerico Jr. and subsequently confirmed by the Senate on December 14, 2007, receiving his commission on December 28, 2007. He served as Chief Judge from 2011–2018.

Other activities

Laplante is a member of the Webster-Batchelder American Inn of Court, and has served on two New Hampshire Bar Association committees: the New Lawyer’s Committee (past chairman), and the Professionalism Committee (past chairman). He is also an advisory board member of the St. Paul’s School Advanced Studies Program, a program that he attended as a student in 1982.

Judge Laplante has served on the Nashua Region Board of the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation (chairman 2006–08), the Nashua Police Athletic League and Youth Safe Haven (chairman 2003–08), and the St. Christopher School Advisory Board. He coordinates the youth wrestling program (K-8th grade) for the Boys & Girls Club of Greater Nashua, and volunteers at the Corpus Christi Food Pantry.

He is a boxing referee, licensed to officiate both professional and amateur bouts.

External links

• Joseph Normand Laplante at the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges, a publication of the Federal Judicial Center.
• Laplante Profile on Judgepedia
• District of New Hampshire
• The Robing Room- Rate Judge Laplante