Melissa Beth Countway (born 1970 or 1971)[1] is an American lawyer who is serving as an associate justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court.
Countway earned a Bachelor of Science in 1993 and a Master of Education in 1994, both from the University of New Hampshire,[2] and a Juris Doctor from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Law in 2002, while serving on the North Carolina Law Review.
From August 2017 to January 2024 she served as a judge on the New Hampshire Circuit Court.
[3] On November 8, 2023, Governor Chris Sununu nominated Countway to serve as an associate justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court to the seat left vacant by the retirement of Justice Gary Hicks on November 30, 2023.
During her hearing, she assured the council she was not a judicial activist and declined to answer questions about reproductive rights.