Local men tapped for judicial posts
AUGUSTA, Maine — Governor Paul R. LePage has announced judicial nominations of three lawyers to serve as judges in Maine Superior and District Courts and three active retired judges for the Maine Superior and District Courts.
Presque Isle attorney Harold Stewart II has been nominated to serve as a Maine Superior Court justice. The Hon. Allen Hunter of Caribou is nominated to serve as an active retired justice in Maine Superior Court.
Stewart is an attorney at Stewart Law Office, a division of Marden, Dubord, Bernier & Stevens, PA, LLC. He specializes in insurance defense litigation, real estate and mediation services. He graduated from the University of Maine in Orono with a degree in chemical engineering with an emphasis in pulp and paper. He is a graduate of Capital University Law School in Columbus, Ohio.
Hunter served as a justice in the Maine Superior Court from 2001-15. Prior to that, he was an attorney at Solman and Hunter, P.A. in Caribou from 1976-2001. He also served as a Superior Court bailiff in Spokane County Superior Court in Spokane, Wash. Hunter is a graduate of the University of Maine in Orono and Gonzaga University School of Law.
In addition, LePage nominated attorneys Deborah Cashman of West Bath and Patrick Larson of Bangor to serve as judges in Maine District Court, as well as Hon. E. Paul Eggert of Portland and Hon. Keith Powers of Cape Elizabeth to serve as active retired judges in District Court.
The Judiciary Committee of the 127th Legislature will hear all gubernatorial judicial nominations, and the committee will schedule public hearings.
