2011 Coalition Hall of Fame Inductees

Scott Hampton, Psy.D.

Dr. Hampton has been working with batterers, sex offenders, victims, and child witnesses for over 20 years. Currently, he is the Director of Ending The Violence, a Dover-based organization that provides educational classes to perpetrators of domestic and sexual violence. He eagerly seeks out opportunities to consult with other community leaders as he serves on several committees including the Governor’s Commission on Domestic and Sexual Violence. Dr. Hampton has assisted the Coalition with ongoing efforts to ensure that New Hampshire’s family law statutes maintain the "best interests of the child" standard. He has worked for over a decade to ensure that this state’s domestic violence and sexual assault laws are some of the strongest in the nation. Scott is often requested to appear before legislative committees to share his unique perspective as a treatment provider. 

(Ret.) Chief Tim Russell

Chief Russell spent 37 years in law enforcement before retiring in 2009 as the Chief of Police in Henniker. He remains extremely active in the community, conducting trainings for law enforcement at the New Hampshire Police Academy and in coordination with the Attorney General’s Office. He is the Coordinator of the New Hampshire Domestic Violence Lethality Assessment Program and also serves as an Instructor for the New Hampshire Bar Association’s Domestic Violence Emergency Project (DOVE). Chief Russell has been a longtime supporter of the Coalition’s public policy work. He was one of the key players who crafted and revised New Hampshire’s current domestic violence. He has also been instrumental in working with the New Hampshire Legislature to ensure that all attempts to weaken this statute are defeated.

Sgt. Jill Rockey

Sgt. Rockey has been with the New Hampshire State Police since 1994. She is a Sergeant with the Major Crimes Unit, and is in charge ofthe Family Services and Missing Person Units. Sergeant Rockey has extensive experience in the investigation of domestic and sexual assault cases, child abuse and neglect and homicide. She is on the Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (SANE) Advisory Board, and serves on several committees of the Governor’s Commission on Domestic and Sexual Violence including the Research Committee, the Sexual Assault and the Media Committee, and the Domestic Violence Fatality Review Committee. Sergeant Rockey was the lead author of New Hampshire's Child Protection and Safety Act - an omnibus bill that revised our sexual offender registry laws and strengthened our sexual assault and child protection statutes. Sgt Rockey is seen as the legislature's "go to" law enforcement officer on all issues related to sexual offender and child protection legislation.

2010 Coalition Hall of Fame Inductees

Former State Representative Dan Eaton has distinguished himself as a leader on all issues relative to domestic violence, sexual assault and stalking. As a former law enforcement official, Dan has seen firsthand the positive impact that Coalition member programs have had on the lives of victims of abuse, and the benefit of collaborations between law enforcement and crisis centers. As a result, Eaton has become a strong advocate on policy issues that positively influence the lives of victims of crime, and has helped to deter all recent attempts to weaken New Hampshire’s domestic violence, sexual assault and stalking laws by working to educate his peers on these issues. During his time in the state legislature Eaton worked to protect state funding for crisis centers.

John King

John King is a retired business professional who has privately supported the movement to end violence against women for years. He approached the Coalition several years ago about becoming a donor and has since made contributions that have greatly impacted this organization. In addition, he has become involved on the Board of Directors for Bridges: Domestic and Sexual Violence located in Nashua, a member program of the Coalition. Prior to his retirement in 2005, John volunteered for Transition House in Cambridge, Massachusetts. John was personally affected by domestic violence in his family as a child, and knows firsthand how difficult this can be. He has made a major personal commitment to helping battered women in this region. In his own quiet way he has made an impact everywhere that he goes.

Sandra Matheson

Since the beginning of the movement, Sandra Matheson has been at the forefront of the work to end violence against women. She began her career in 1973 as a police officer in Massachusetts. In 1984, she became the Program Director for Rape and Assault Support Services in Nashua, now known as Bridges. In 1987, she became the first Director of the State Office of Victim/Witness Assistance where she remains today. Her contributions to the movement have been invaluable. She founded the NH Domestic Violence, Child Fatality and Elder and Incapacitated Adult Fatality Review Committees, and is currently Co-Chair of the Domestic Violence Fatality Review Committee.  She serves as Chair of the Attorney General’s Task Force on Child Abuse and Neglect, the NH Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (SANE) Advisory Board, the Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence Protocol Projects, the Sexual Assault Domestic Violence Conference Committee, and is a partner of the New Hampshire AmeriCorps Victim Assistance Program.  She has been recognized nationally for her work on Victim’s Rights Legislation. Her office also oversees the Attorney General’s Annual Conference on Child Abuse and Neglect and the Attorney General’s Conference on Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault, which have trained thousands of professionals in NH over the years.

The Honorable David Nixon

A longtime advocate for victims of domestic violence, Nixon has served as a DOVE attorney, representing pro bono, abused women and children for nearly 15 years.  He has accepted scores of referrals, serving hundreds of survivors and their loved ones.  Since 2000 alone, Attorney Nixon has worked on 72 DOVE cases in NH.  In the late 1990’s he helped fund and develop a marketing concept for DOVE recruitment, which was known as the “DOVE wants You!” ad campaign.  This campaign featured prominent attorneys posing in an "Uncle Sam" costume asking fellow members of the NH Bar to volunteer their time to the DOVE Project.  Most recently he was involved in a Supreme Court Case (Hemenway vs. Hemenway), which turned out to be a significant victory for domestic violence law in New Hampshire. Nixon has been in state politics since 1969, serving in both the House and the Senate. During that time he has been involved with legislation that has greatly improved the lives of victims.

The Honorable Stephen Shurtleff

Since being elected to the House of Representatives, Representative Shurtleff has become a champion for victims of crime. Shurtleff has taken the lead on a number of Coalition priority bills, including an omnibus bill that worked to bring New Hampshire into compliance with the Federal Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act. This bill marked an important step forward in New Hampshire's efforts to protect victims of sexual abuse by strengthening state laws pertaining to our sex offender registry and our sexual assault and child pornography laws, enabling law enforcement officers and prosecutors to hold offenders who prey on children accountable. In addition, Shurtleff took the lead on bills to designate the act of non-lethal strangulation as a felony level offense and to allow NH to take DNA samples from all convicted felons, including all sexual offenders against children. He has also advocated for the passage of NH’s human trafficking law, and recent laws to strengthen NH’s domestic violence statute.

Terry Sturke

Terry Sturke has been involved in promoting community solutions to domestic and sexual violence for 30 years. She has been a volunteer with the New Hampshire Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Violence for almost our entire history. Though she has never been a paid staff member, as a volunteer she has played a vital role in shaping the foundation of this organization. Terry has selflessly devoted her time and energy to Coalition projects and to promoting a vision of community accountability for ending domestic and sexual violence and stalking. Terry has been with the Coalition through every major transition, as a Board member, a volunteer and a supporter.  While serving on the Board of Directors, Terry routinely challenged other Board members to contribute financially to the organization.  As a volunteer, Terry has contributed to numerous programs and projects.  Terry has also helped the Coalition plan strategically, engaging in multiple planning efforts, and then helping to implement the plans.