Jeffrey L. Hjelm

Associate Justice Jeffrey L. Hjelm is a graduate of Hampden Academy, Hamilton College and Case Western Reserve University School of Law. After serving as a law clerk for the Maine Superior Court and for then-Maine Supreme Judicial Court Associate Justice Gene Carter, he worked as a trial lawyer with Vafiades, Brountas & Kominsky, and with the Criminal Division of the Maine Department of the Attorney General. Justice 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.

Maine

Maine Board of Overseers of the Bar

ID Number: 002323

Since 1980

Justice

Maine Supreme Court

2014 - Current

Judge

Maine Superior Court

1998 - 2014

Judge

Maine District Court

1992 - 1998

Various

Various

1980 - 1992

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

Hamilton College

Undergraduate degree

Case Western Reserve University School of Law

J.D. (1980) | Law

1980

Maine State Bar  # 002323

Member

Current