16 Facts About Andru Volinsky

Andru H Volinsky was born on March 13,1956 and is an American politician, attorney, and social justice advocate.

Andru Volinsky was born in New York City and grew up in Levittown, Pennsylvania, graduating from Woodrow Wilson High School in 1973.

Andru Volinsky's father worked as a mechanic and maintenance man and his mother was a homemaker who raised four children.

Andru Volinsky then earned a Juris Doctor from the George Washington University Law School in 1980.

Andru Volinsky taught courses in criminal law and procedure and began defending death penalty cases as a faculty member.

Andru Volinsky represented the Dover School District in 2016 and won a return of more than $1.5 million in unconstitutionally withheld school aid.

Andru Volinsky has defended against the death penalty throughout the entirety of his career.

Andru Volinsky was part of the 2019 effort to repeal the death penalty in New Hampshire.

Andru Volinsky argued that by compelling the Manchester police department to release the pictures they had taken, it could help identify race or gender-based discrimination in the police department's work.

In New Hampshire's Northern Pass case, Andru Volinsky represented impacted people from Stewartstown and Deerfield.

In 2014, Andru Volinsky represented four large public unions who sought to challenge the State's effort to shift increased pension costs to existing employees.

Andru Volinsky was elected to the Executive Council in the 2016 election.

Andru Volinsky won re-election to a second term on the Executive Council in 2018 in an election that gave control of the Council to the Democrats.

Andru Volinsky narrowly lost to Dan Feltes for the Democratic nomination in the 2020 New Hampshire gubernatorial election.

Andru Volinsky endorsed Bernie Sanders' campaign in the 2020 Democratic presidential primary.

Amy and Andru Volinsky have climbed all 48 of New Hampshire's 4,000 footers.