Name Jeffrey Hjelm | ||
Jeffrey L. Hjelm (born 1956) is an Associate Justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court. His current term expires in 2021.
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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 May 7, 2014 Hjelm was nominated by Paul LePage to be an Associate Justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court. On August 1, 2014, Hjelm was sworn in by Governor LePage as an Associate Justice.