Gordon MacDonald, the chief justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court, resigned on Tuesday after a panel found he violated the state’s ethics code. He has been on unexplained medical leave since July.
MacDonald exercised favoritism and bypassed merit-based hiring practices, according to a Supreme Court order, by giving a longtime ally, Dianne Martin, a new role in an unconventional way.
Martin, who in recent years held the top administrative job at …