Kermit Lipez

Kermit Victor Lipez (born 1941) is an American lawyer who serves as a senior United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.

Education and early career Lipez received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Haverford College in 1963 and his Bachelor of Laws from Yale Law School in 1967. Lipez also earned a Master of Laws from the University of Virginia School of Law in 1990.

Lipez formerly served as a staff attorney in the United States Department of Justice Honor Program, Civil Rights Division, from 1967 to 1968. He then served as a special assistant and legal counsel to Maine Governor Kenneth M. Curtis from 1968 to 1971 and as a legislative aide to United States Senator Edmund Muskie from 1971 to 1972, until entering private practice in Portland, Maine, where he stayed until joining the Maine trial court in 1985.

Lipez assumed senior status on December 31, 2011. He was succeeded by Judge William J. Kayatta Jr.