Andrew MacDonald Mead[1] (born 1952) is a justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court since 2007. His current term expires in 2021.

Andrew Mead
Chief Justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court
Acting
In office
April 14, 2020 – June 8, 2021
Preceded byLeigh Saufley
Succeeded byValerie Stanfill
Associate Justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court
Assumed office
March 22, 2007
Appointed byJohn Baldacci
Preceded byHoward H. Dana Jr.
Personal details
Born
Andrew MacDonald Mead

1952 (age 71–72)
EducationUniversity of Maine, Orono (BA)
New York Law School (JD)

Mead attended the University of Maine and New York Law School.[2]

He has been a member of the Bangor law firms of Paine, Lynch & Weatherbee and Mitchell & Stearns. He is a past President of the Maine State Bar Association. He was appointed to the Maine District Court in 1990 and the Maine Superior Court in 1992. He served as chief justice of the Maine Superior Court from 1999 to 2001. He was appointed to the Maine Supreme Judicial Court in 2007. He has served as judicial liaison to the Maine Rules of Evidence Advisory Committee and chaired the Task Force on Electronic Court Records. He has been active in a number of court technology and jury reform initiatives. He is a member of the University of Maine adjunct faculty.

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  1. ^ Eighty-fourth Commencement Exercises. New York Law School. June 13, 1976. Retrieved November 2, 2021.
  2. ^ "The Supreme Judicial Court of the State of Maine, 1820 to 2009". Retrieved December 22, 2019.
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Political offices
Preceded by Associate Justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court
2007–present
Incumbent
Preceded by Chief Justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court
Acting

2020–2021
Succeeded by