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Asquith
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Governor Chafee Friday named Family Court Magistrate Patricia Asquith to take a $149,207-a-year lifetime seat as a judge in the court she has worked in for more than a decade.
Asquith, of East Providence, was named a Family Court magistrate in 2002. Previously she was a lawyer with Asquith, Mahoney & Robinson, focusing on family law. She attended Suffolk University School of Law.
She fills the vacancy created by Judge Haiganush R. Bedrosian's ascension to Family Court chief in 2010.
The nomination comes days after the Rhode Island Bar Association faulted Chafee for failing to name judges for four vacancies. The association charged that the delay was hampering the judicial system, particularly in Family Court where it said the time to get a uncontested divorce had doubled and stretched to more than a year for divorces in dispute.