Leigh Ingalls Saufley
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Leigh Ingalls Saufley is the Chief Justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court. She was sworn in as Chief Justice on December 6, 2001 and again on February 27, 2009. She first became a member of the state's highest court on October 20, 1997[1] when she was appointed by then-governor Angus S. King, a political independent.[2]
Saufley is the first woman and the youngest member of the Court to be appointed Chief Justice. She is the court's 26th chief justice and one of over twenty female chief justices of state supreme courts.
Her current term expires in 2011. [3]
Biography
Photo credit: Jack Montgomery
Saufley graduated from the University of Maine at Orono, Phi Beta Kappa, in 1976. In 1980, she graduated from the University of Maine School of Law.[2]
Legal career
After law school, Saufley worked for the state's Attorney General Office for approximately ten years. During her tenure, she would become on of Maine's first female deputy attorney generals.
Saufley was appointed to Maine District Court in 1990 and appointed to the Maine Superior Court in 1993. She was appointed an Associate Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court in 1997.[2][4]
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