Francis Flaherty (jurist)

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Francis X. Flaherty (January 8, 1947) is a justice on the Rhode Island Supreme Court.

Flaherty is a graduate of Suffolk University Law School and Providence College. He served in the United States Army from 1968 to 1970. Flaherty was elected mayor of Warwick, serving from 1985 to 1990 and previously as a Warwick City Councilman from 1979 to 1985. He also was Assistant City Solicitor of Warwick from 1975 to 1978 and on Board of Governors for Higher Education from 1998 to 2003 before being appointed to the Supreme Court by Governor Donald Carcieri in 2003.

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