Elizabeth Woodcock

Elizabeth Woodcock

Adjunct Professor
Appellate Advocacy

Elizabeth C. Woodcock is an assistant attorney general in the Criminal Justice Bureau.  She is a retired federal prosecutor, having served as an assistant United States attorney in the District of Maine, the District of Columbia, and the District of Vermont.  She is admitted to practice in New Hampshire, Maine, and Vermont, the District Courts of those three jurisdictions, the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, and the United States Supreme Court.  In 1996-97, Ms. Woodcock was a United States Supreme Court Fellow assigned to the United States Sentencing Commission.  Upon graduation from law school, she clerked for the Maine Supreme Judicial Court.  After clerking, Ms. Woodcock worked for the United States Senate as a legislative assistant. 

Ms. Woodcock is a trustee emerita of Bowdoin College.  She is the secretary of the Supreme Court Fellows Alumni Association and the treasurer of the New Hampshire Chapter of the Federal Bar Association. 

Educational Background

  • J.D., University of Maine School of Law
  • M.A., Stanford University
  • B.A., Bowdoin College

Courses Taught

  • Appellate Advocacy

General Areas of Interest, Scholarship, Research, & Practice Area

Appeals in criminal cases before the New Hampshire Supreme Court and the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit; federal habeas corpus litigation involving state prisoners in the United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire;  Attorney General’s Legislative Committee (assigned to the House of Representatives Judiciary and Criminal Law Committees; Senate Judiciary Committee).