Joined by members of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court, legislators, and others at the Blaine House, Governor Janet Mills ceremonially swore in Valerie Stanfill as Chief Justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court.

Governor Mills nominated Stanfill to serve as Chief Justice on May 10, 2021. The Legislature’s Judiciary Committee and the Maine State Senate voted unanimously to confirm Stanfill on June 1, 2021 and June 3, 2021, respectively. Governor Mills swore in Stanfill as Chief Justice during a private ceremony in the Cabinet Room on Tuesday, June 8, 2021.

Prior to serving as Chief Justice, Stanfill served on the Maine Superior Court presiding over Androscoggin, Oxford and Franklin Counties, a position to which Governor Mills nominated her. Prior to that appointment, she served on the Maine District Court from January of 2007 to February of 2020. Justice Stanfill was first nominated to the District Court by Governor John Baldacci and renominated by Governor Paul LePage.

Prior to serving the State of Maine in the Judicial Branch, Chief Justice Stanfill worked as Acting Director of the Cumberland Legal Aid Clinic and as Visiting Clinical Professor of Law at the University of Maine School of Law, following a lengthy and successful career in private practice.

She has served as the Chair of the Judicial Branch Advisory Committee on Domestic Violence and Protection Orders and as a member of the Maine Commission on Domestic and Sexual Abuse, the Judicial Branch Advisory Committee on Judicial Ethics, and the Maine Domestic Homicide Review Panel. She has also served as a volunteer mock trial coach for Lewiston High School.

Chief Justice Stanfill, 63, graduated Magna cum Laude from the University of Maine School of Law and received her Bachelor of Arts degree from Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania. She lives in Wayne.

Chief Justice Stanfill is Governor Mills’ third appointment to the Maine Supreme Judicial Court. Associate Justices Catherine Connors and Andrew Horton were nominated by the Governor in 2020 and confirmed unanimously by the Legislature.

She is the second woman to serve as Chief Justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court in Maine’s history.


Megan Diver

Megan has worked in Maine politics for more than ten years and all of her professional career, having served in many roles for elected officials (including former Secretary of State Charlie Summers), in-house with the Maine Association of REALTORS®, legislative specialist at Pierce Atwood LLP providing lobbying services and support to Pierce Atwood’s government relations clients and most recently senior government relations specialist at the Maine State Chamber of Commerce. Megan currently is the Vice President at the Maine Energy Marketers Association, utilizing her vast knowledge and legislative experience at the State House to represent MEMA on policies relating to the Association and its members.