Judge Sandra L. Cabrera: Professional Background and Legal Expertise

The Hon. Sandra L. Cabrera is a judge on the New Hampshire Circuit Court. She was appointed to the bench by Governor Chris Sununu in 2022.

Cabrera earned a bachelor’s degree in environmental policy, institutions, and behavior from Rutgers University in 2007. She then completed a J.D. at Vermont Law and Graduate School in 2010. As a law student, she interned for the Hon. William R. DeLorenzo of the Bergen County Superior Court in New Jersey (2008), and she clerked at Meyer, Glitzenstein & Crystal in Washington, D.C. (2009 to 2010).

After graduating from law school, Cabrera began her legal career as a judicial law clerk for the New Hampshire Superior Court in Strafford County. She served in that capacity until 2012, at which time she entered into private practice at Waystack Frizzell.

Her memberships have included the New Hampshire Bar Association and the New Hampshire Women’s Bar Association. She has also been involved with Colebrook Community Child Care, the Coos County Child Care Task Force, and the Connecticut River Collaborative Planning Committee, and she has lectured on the topic of solo and small firm practices for New Hampshire Continuing Legal Education.

She is a recipient of the Robert E. Kirby Award from the New Hampshire Bar Foundation (2019).

Born in Teaneck, New Jersey, Cabrera was raised in Hillsdale, New Jersey, where she attended Pascack Valley High School. She currently resides in Columbia, New Hampshire, alongside her husband, Mike, and their two children.