CONCORD — Attorney General Gordon MacDonald is the new chief justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court.
On a 4-1 vote along partisan lines, MacDonald was confirmed by the Executive Council, with the lone Democrat, Cinde Warmington of Concord, casting the dissenting vote.
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