JUDGE KERMIT V. LIPEZ Judicial Experience 1998 (sworn Judge, U. S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit in July 1 - present) 1994-98 Justice, Maine Supreme Judicial Court 1985-94 Justice, Maine Superior Court Professional Experience 1975-85 Partner, Curtis, Thaxter, Lipez, Stevens, Broder & Micoleau (founding partner) Portland, Maine 1973-75 Sole Practitioner Portland, Maine 1971-72 Legislative Aide, U.S. Senator Edmund S. Muskie Washington, DC 1968-71 Special Assistant and Legal Counsel, Governor Kenneth M. Curtis Augusta, Maine 1967-68 Staff Attorney, U.S. Department of Justice Honors Program (Civil Rights Division) Washington, DC Education 1988-90 LL.M., Judicial Process, University of Virginia School of Law 1964-67 LL.B., Yale Law School Finalist, Thurman Arnold Moot Court Competition Director, Moot Court Board Member, Yale Moot Court Team (1966 Sutherland Cup winners) 1959-63 B.A., English, Haverford College Phi Beta Kappa Magna Cum Laude English Prize (awarded at graduation) Corporation Scholar Judge Kermit V. Lipez Page 2 Bar Admissions: Pennsylvania, 1967 Maine, 1973 Teaching 2014 (fall) Adjunct Professor, Seminar on Judicial Decision-Making, Boston College School of Law 2013 (spring) Adjunct Professor, Seminar on Judicial Decision-Making, University of Maine School of Law 1984-85 Lecturer, Professional Responsibility, University of Maine School of Law Honors Access to Justice Award, presented by the Maine Bar Foundation, 2009 Advocate for Justice Award presented by the State of Maine Judicial Branch, 2006 The Vincent L. McKusick Award presented by the Maine Trial Judges Association, 1998 (for substantial contributions to the administration of justice in the State of Maine) Bar Associations Maine State Bar Association (1973-present) Cumberland County Bar Association (1973-present) Published Writings Judicial $ "Rediscovering Senator Edmund Muskie," Maine Law Review, Vol. 67, No. 2 (2015) $ "Is There a Place for Religion in Judicial Decision-Making?", Touro Law Review, Vol. 31, No. 1 (2014) $ "Remarks of Kermit V. Lipez, U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, For His Portrait Ceremony," before the Maine Supreme Judicial Court, Maine Bar Journal, Vol. 29, No. 1 (Winter 2014) $ "Doing Justice: The Judaism of Louis Brandeis," Maine Bar Journal, Vol. 28, No. 1 (Winter 2013) Judge Kermit V. Lipez Page 3 $ "To Lobby or Not to Lobby," Journal of Appellate Practice & Process, Vol. 14, No. 1 (Spring 2013) $ "Portrait Presentation" Remarks, 687 F.3d xxxi (1st Cir. 2012) $ "We Should All Be Judges," Maine Bar Journal, Vol. 25, No. 4 (Fall 2010) $ "Reflections of an Access to Justice Chair," Maine Law Review, Vol. 62, No. 2 (2010) $ "Judge Coffin: The Ways of a Judge and On Appeal," Journal of Appellate Practice & Process, Vol. 10, No. 2 (2009); reprinted in Maine Law Review, Vol. 63, No. 2 (2011) $ "Judges and Their Law Clerks: Some Reflections," Maine Bar Journal, Vol. 22, No. 2 (Spring 2007) $ "Some Reflections on Dissenting," Maine Law Review, Vol. 57, No. 2 (2005) $ "The Constitutionalization of Education," Maine Bar Journal, Vol. 18, No. 4 (fall 2003) $ "An Ethical Dilemma in the Workplace: Truth or Consequences," Maine Bar Journal, Vol. 15, No. 3 (July 2000) $ "Investiture Speech of Kermit V. Lipez," Maine Bar Journal, Vol. 13, No. 5 (Sept. 1998) $ "The Clinician in Court: A Survival Guide - A View from the Bench," chapter, The Mental Health Practitioner and the Law: An Essential Handbook (Harvard University Press, 1998) $ "A Vision of X: Remarks to New Members of the Bar," Bar Admission Ceremonies (October 1994), Maine Bar Journal, Vol. 10, No. 1 (January 1995) $ "One Case, One Judge: The Single Justice Assignment Project in the Superior Court," Maine Bar Journal, Vol. 9, No. 2 (March 1994) $ "Disrobing Gender Bias in the Courts," Legal Times, June 28, 1993; reprinted in Maine Bar Journal, Vol. 8, No. 6 (November 1993) $ "Sentencing Without Resources: A Challenge to Intellectual Honesty," Maine Bar Journal, Vol. 8, No. 3 (May 1993) $ "Sanctions for Prevailing Defendants in the Superior Court," Maine Bar Journal, Vol. 7, No. 2 (March 1992) Judge Kermit V. Lipez Page 4 $ "The Child Witness in Sexual Abuse Cases in Maine," 42 Maine Law Review 283 (1990) $ "Superior Court to Implement Changes in the Scheduling of Civil Trials," Maine Bar Journal, Vol. 4, No. 4 (July 1989) $ "How a Judge Can Survive Discovery," Maine Bar Journal, Vol. 4, No. 3 (May 1989) $ "Adventures and Reflections of a New Judge," Maine Bar Journal, Vol. 2, No. 6 (November 1987) $ "The Guilty Plea and the Reluctant Defendant," Maine Criminal Law Journal, Vol. 1, No. 2 (June 1986) Lawyer $ "The Negotiation Process in Public/Private Development Projects: Four Presumptuous Rules from the Lawyer for the Developer," Maine Bar Bulletin, Vol. 19, No. 1 (May 1985) $ "A Report from the Consortium on a Study of the Future of the Maine Legal Profession: A Proposed Agenda," (Distributed at the winter meeting of the Maine State Bar Association, January 1985) $ "A Study of the Future of the Maine Legal Profession," Maine Bar Bulletin, Vol. 18, No. 2 (March 1984) $ "President's Column," Maine Civil Liberties: --"Abortion and the Politicians," Vol. 12, No. 1 (February 1982) --"Address of Former MCLU President Kermit Lipez to the 1981 Annual Dinner of the Board of Editors of the Maine Law Review," Vol. 11, No. 3 August 1981) (delivered as a speech in May 1981) --Untitled, Vol. 11, No. 2 (April 1981) --Untitled, Vol. 11, No. 1 (February 1981) --Untitled, Vol. 10, No. 4 (October 1980) $ "The Board of Environmental Protection: The Need for Reform," Maine Bar Bulletin, Vol. 15, No. 2 (March 1981) Judge Kermit V. Lipez Page 5 Law Student $ "The Law of Demonstrations: The Demonstrators, The Police, The Courts," 44 Denver Law Journal 499 (1967) $ "Moot Court--Exercises in Legal Realism," Yale Law Report, Vol. 12, No. 3 (July 1966) Biography $ Kenneth Curtis of Maine: Profile of a Governor (Harpswell Press, 1974) .