Patricia O'Brien Cotter

Patricia O'Brien Cotter
Justice of the Montana Supreme Court
In office
2000–2016
Preceded by William E. Hunt
Succeeded by Dirk Sandefur

Patricia O'Brien Cotter is a Montana Supreme Court Associate Justice first elected on November 7, 2000, filling the seat of the retired Justice William E. Hunt.[1] Originally from South Bend, Indiana, she graduated with honors in 1972 from Western Michigan University with a B.S. in Political Science and History. Justice Cotter's law degree is from the Notre Dame Law School in 1977.[2]

Justice Cotter practiced law for six years in South Bend, after which she and her husband Michael Cotter moved to Montana. She practiced law in Great Falls, Montana with John Hoyt beginning in 1984. She and her husband established the firm of Cotter and Cotter in 1985.[2] She is admitted to practice before the Fort Peck Tribal Court of Appeals, the Eighth and Ninth Circuit Courts of Appeals, the United States Court of Claims, and the United States Supreme Court.[3]

Cotter was reelected to a second term in 2008,[1] and retired in 2016.

References

  1. 1 2 "Supreme Court of Montana Biographies". Retrieved August 23, 2013.
  2. 1 2 "Justice Patricia O'Brien Cotter". Montana Supreme Court. 2012. Retrieved 31 August 2015.
  3. ↑ 25 Mont. Law. 8
Legal offices
Preceded by
William E. Hunt		 Associate Justice of the Montana Supreme Court
2000-2016		 Succeeded by
Dirk Sandefur



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