Vincent L. McKusick
| Vincent Lee McKusick | |
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| Chief Justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court |
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In office September 16, 1977 – February 28, 1992 |
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| Appointed by | James B. Longley |
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| Born |
October 21, 1921 Parkman, Maine, U.S. |
| Died | December 3, 2014 (aged 93) Falmouth, Maine, U.S. |
| Spouse(s) | Nancy Elizabeth Green (m. 1951) |
| Relations | Victor A. McKusick (brother) |
| Children | Four |
| Alma mater |
Bates College Massachusetts Institute of Technology Harvard Law School |
| Profession | Lawyer, judge |
Vincent Lee McKusick (October 21, 1921 – December 3, 2014) was an American attorney and Chief Justice of Maine. At the time of his death McKusick worked at the firm Pierce Atwood in Portland, Maine in the role of Of Counsel.
His most prominent rulings included Connecticut v. New Hampshire, Kansas v. Nebraska and Colorado and Louisiana v. Mississippi.
McKusick began practicing law with Pierce Atwood in 1952. For twenty-five years—until he was appointed by Governor James B. Longley as Maine’s Chief Justice—McKusick engaged in general practice with the firm.
Prior to joining Pierce Atwood in 1952, McKusick served successively as law clerk to Chief Judge Learned Hand of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and to Justice Felix Frankfurter of the United States Supreme Court. From 1943 to 1946, he served in the U.S. Army, in part in Los Alamos, New Mexico, participating in the Manhattan Project.
McKusick received his A.B. degree from Bates College (1943), his S.B. and S.M. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1947), and his LL.B. from Harvard Law School (1950), where he served as President of the Harvard Law Review.
In 1977, Governor Longley appointed McKusick Chief Justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court, the first such appointment directly from the bar since the appointment of Chief Justice Prentiss Mellen in 1820. Chief Justice McKusick had responsibility for managing Maine’s entire court system as well as for presiding over its highest appellate court. Over the years, he had been deeply involved in modernizing the rules of procedure for the Maine courts, serving on rules committees appointed by the Supreme Judicial Court and co-authoring two editions of the classic work on Maine Civil Practice.
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