Donald Alexander
Donald G. Alexander was a justice on the Maine Supreme Judicial Court. He was appointed by Governor Angus King and joined the court September 2, 1998.[1][2][3] He retired in January 2020.[4]
Education
Alexander received his undergraduate degree from Bowdoin College and his J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School.[5]
Career
Before his appointment to the Maine Supreme Judicial Court in 1998, Alexander served on the Maine Superior Court, the Maine District Court, and as a deputy attorney general. He also served as an assistant to U.S. Senator Edmund S. Muskie in Washington D.C., and as a legislative counsel for the National League of Cities.[3][5]
Alexander is the author of The Maine Jury Instruction Manual (4th ed. 2005), and The Maine Appellate Practice (2nd ed. 2004), and the editor of The Maine Rules of Civil Procedure with Advisory Committee Notes and Commentary (2005 ed.). He has authored and edited legal publications and served as an adjunct faculty member for the University of Maine School of Law and the Harvard Law School Trial Advocacy Workshop. Alexander also serves as the court's liaison to the Advisory Committee on the Maine Rules of Probate Procedure, the State Court Library Committee, and the Maine State Bar Association Continuing Legal Education Committee.[5]
Political outlook
In October 2012, political science professors Adam Bonica and Michael Woodruff of Stanford University attempted to determine the partisan ideology of state supreme court justices. They created a scoring system in which a score above 0 indicated a more conservative-leaning ideology, while scores below 0 were more liberal.
Alexander received a campaign finance score of -1, indicating a liberal ideological leaning. This was less liberal than the average score of -1.01 that justices received in Maine.
The study was based on data from campaign contributions by the judges themselves, the partisan leaning of those who contributed to the judges' campaigns, or, in the absence of elections, the ideology of the appointing body (governor or legislature). This study was not a definitive label of a justice, but an academic summary of various relevant factors.[6]
Recent news
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See also
External links
- Search Google News for this topic
- Cleaves Law Library, "Donald G. Alexander"
- State of Maine Judicial Branch, "Donald G. Alexander"
- Project Vote Smart, "Justice Donald G. Alexander (ME)"
- The Heartland Institute, "Miane Supreme Court Denies Public Funding for Sectarian Schools," June 2006
Footnotes
- ↑ Maine.gov, "Maine Supreme Court Judges Since 1820," accessed July 29, 2014
- ↑ American Judicature Society, "Methods of Judicial Selection: Maine Members of the Highest Court," accessed July 29, 2014
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Cleaves Law Library, "Donald G. Alexander," accessed July 29, 2014
- ↑ Maine.gov, "Governor Mills Nominates Candidates to the Maine Supreme Judicial Court & Superior Court," January 6, 2020
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 State of Maine Judicial Branch, "Donald G. Alexander," accessed July 29, 2014
- ↑ Stanford University, "State Supreme Court Ideology and 'New Style' Judicial Campaigns," October 31, 2012
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