Jeffrey Hjelm

Jeffrey L. Hjelm (born 1956) is an Associate Justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court.

Education

Hjelm is a graduate of Hampden Academy, Hamilton College and Case Western Reserve University School of Law.

Legal career

He worked as a law clerk for law clerk for the Maine Superior Court and for then-Maine Supreme Judicial Court Associate Justice Gene Carter. He later worked as a trial lawyer for Vafiades, Brountas & Kominsky, and with the Criminal Division of the Maine Department of the Attorney General.

Judicial career

Hjelm was appointed to the Maine District Court in 1992 and to the Maine Superior Court in 1998. He was reappointed to the Superior Court in 2005 and 2012. On August 1, 2014, Justice Hjelm was sworn in by Governor LePage to become an Associate Justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court.^[1]

References

↑ State of Maine Judicial Branch, Supreme Court Justice Biographies, Jeffrey L. Hjelm

Current statewide political officials of Maine

U.S. Senators	Susan Collins Angus King

State government	Paul LePage, Governor Michael Thibodeau, President of the Senate (Lt. Gov. equivalent) Matthew Dunlap, Secretary of State (elected by state legislature) Janet T. Mills, Attorney General (elected by state legislature) Terry Hayes, Treasurer (elected by state legislature)

Senate	Michael Thibodeau, President of the Senate Garrett Mason, Majority Leader Justin Alfond, Minority Leader

House	Mark Eves, Speaker Jeff McCabe, Majority Leader Kenneth Fredette, Minority Leader

Supreme Court	Leigh Ingalls Saufley, Chief Justice Joseph Jabar Donald G. Alexander Ellen A. Gorman Andrew M. Mead Jeffrey Hjelm Thomas E. Humphrey

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