Donald G. Alexander (born March 1942) is an

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and former justice on the

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Donald G. Alexander was appointed to the Maine Supreme Judicial Court in 1998 by Governor

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. He previously served on the Maine Superior Court and the

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and as a Deputy Attorney General for the State of Maine. He served in Washington, D.C. as an assistant to Maine Senator

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and as Legislative Counsel for the National League of Cities. Justice Alexander is a graduate of Bowdoin College and the University of Chicago Law School. He is the author of The Maine Jury Instruction Manual (4th. ed. 2008); and Maine Appellate Practice (3rd. ed. 2008), and a principal editor of The Maine Rules of Civil Procedure with Advisory Committee Notes and Practice Commentary (2008). He has been an adjunct faculty member at the University of Maine School of Law and has been on the faculty of the

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Trial Advocacy Workshop since 1980. He is the Court's liaison to the Advisory Committees on the Maine Rules of Civil Procedure and Probate Procedure, the State Court Library Committee, and the Maine State Bar Association Continuing Legal Education Committee. He retired from active service on January 31, 2020.

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