Donald G. Alexander

Donald Gilbert Alexander (born March 28, 1942)

Biography Alexander was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, the son of Donald C. and Ruth Bachelor Alexander, and grew up in Nahant, Massachusetts. He graduated from Bowdoin College and the University of Chicago Law School, serving in Washington, D.C. as an assistant to Maine Senator Edmund Muskie and as Legislative Counsel for the National League of Cities. 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 Harvard Law School 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.

Justice Alexander has dissented more than any current or former member of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court.

He retired from active service on January 31, 2020.