Steven J. McAuliffe

Steven J. McAuliffe (born 1948, Cambridge, Massachusetts) is an American attorney and judge, currently Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire. He was the husband of Christa McAuliffe, one of the victims of the 1986 Space Shuttle Challenger disaster. Steven McAuliffe was graduated from Virginia Military Institute a member of the clss of 1970. Christa had his VMI ring with her on the shuttle. His classmates replaced this important memento. [McAuliffe, SJ. Speech at the VMI class of 1994 ring ceremony]

He studied the law at the Georgetown University Law Center 1970 to 1973. He was a Captain in the U.S. Army JAG Corps from 1973-77. From 1977-80, he was an assistant attorney general in New Hampshire. He was in private practice in Concord, New Hampshire from 1980 until his appointment to the federal bench in 1992 by President George H. W. Bush. He became Chief Judge of the New Hampshire district in 2004 on the expiration of Paul J. Barbadoro's term as Chief Judge.

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