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LEARNING THE SIGNS - HON. HON. JOHN BRODERICK In 2010, after fifteen years on the Court, Judge Broderick left to become Dean of the University of New Hampshire School of Law, and in 2017 he became the Director of External Affairs at Dartmouth Hitchcock Hospital. That same year, having lived through an extremely serious mental illness situation in his own family, he accepted a po- sition as co-chairman of a national committee to raise the awareness of mental health issues throughout the country. Since that time, he has worked tirelessly to support that cause. He has given lectures at over 350 middle schools and high schools in New Hampshire and all around New England and has made a total of over 700 appearances at different organizations during that time. Judge Broderick shared his personal story – his very per- sonal story – in the abridged remarks that follow: I have been on a mission the last seven years of my life, traveling and speaking wherever I’m invited, to change the culture and the conversation around mental illness. In the world I’m from, in the world I grew up in, no one talked about mental illness. No one talked about it. It was just a conversation that was too awkward to have. When I was a kid, the Danvers Mental Hospital in Massa- chusetts was referred to as the nuthouse. Every adult who said that, every kid – myself included – didn’t feel embar- rassed to say that, didn’t feel ashamed. All these years later, looking back, we all should have been embarrassed, we all should have been ashamed, but we weren’t. 39 JOURNAL JOHN BRODERICK WAS INDUCTED AS A FELLOW OF THE COLLEGE IN 1989. IN 1995, HE WAS APPOINTED TO THE NEW HAMPSHIRE SUPREME COURT. IN 2004, HE WAS APPOINTED CHIEF JUSTICE, WHERE HE SERVED WITH DISTINCTION FOR ANOTHER SIX YEARS.