Joseph A. DiClerico, Jr., a federal judge who served on the U.S. District Court in New Hampshire for three decades, has died, the court said in a statement Sunday. DiClerico died Saturday. He was 81. The cause of death was not disclosed.

“He was the consummate trial judge: patient, wise, fair, kind, and humble," current Chief Judge Landya McCafferty said in a statement. “He was also a judge’s judge, possessing attributes that many of his state and federal judicial colleagues sought to emulate over the past four decades."