Patricia O'Brien Cotter
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Patricia O'Brian Cotter is an associate justice of the Montana Supreme Court. She won a non-partisan election to this post on November 7, 2000, assuming the position previously held by retiring justice William Hunt. She is currently serving an eight-year term on the Court and is the chair of the Supreme Court Commission.[1][2] She ran unopposed in 2008[3] to retain her seat for a new eight-year term. Her new term expires in 2016.
Biography
Justice Cotter received a B.S. in political science from Western Michigan University in 1972 and a law degree from Notre Dame Law School in 1977.[1]
Legal career
Justice Cotter worked as a lawyer in South Bend, Indiana for 6 years before joining John Hoyt in Great Falls, Montana in 1984. Cotter and her husband started the firm Cotter & Cotter one year later. She joined the Supreme Court in 2000.[1]
Associations and activities
- Chair of the Montana's Trial Lawyers Association's amicus committee
- Chair of Montana's lawyer representatives to the Ninth Circuit Judicial Conference
- Executive Committee for the Ninth Circuit Judicial Conference
- Montana Trial Lawyers Association's Public Service Award
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