HOPE — Camden Law’s Sarah Gilbert, Esq., has been appointed by Governor Janet Mills to be a judge for the Maine District Court.  She will be leaving the firm in the next month or so, per a news release. 

Gilbert has served on the Board of Governors to the Maine Trial Lawyers Association, as Treasurer to the Knox County Bar Association, serves on the Transitioning Lawyer’s Council (seeking to encourage new lawyers to open practice in rural Maine), the Maine State Bar Association CLE Committee, the Town of Union Board of Appeals, and speaks at numerous state Bar events such as Bridging the Gap and Women in the Law panel discussions.

Raised in Machias, Gilbert studied at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York, followed by the University of Maine School of Law, where she received scholarships, graduated magna cum laude, and as a professor’s assistant, taught substantive classes in constitutional law, torts, and legal writing. At some point, she was able to fit in a semester at the University of St. Andrews – Scotland’s oldest university, founded in 1413.

After excelling in law school, she was tapped by the Maine Supreme Court (the “Law court”) to serve as law clerk for the Honorable Donald G. Alexander. A decade later, she has been named a Super Lawyers Rising Star for eight consecutive years in recognition of obtaining millions of dollars for her personal-injury clients in the form of jury verdicts and settlements. 

Notably, Gilbert was proud and honored to work with her mother, the Hon. Rebecca A. Irving, of Machias (winner of the 2017 Caroline Duby Glassman Award, Chief Tribal Court Judge, Passamaquoddy Tribal Court), to obtain a $2.3 million dollar judgment for a sexual assault survivor in Washington County.

Sarah and her husband Christopher (a software engineer/architect) have two little daughters, Ivy and Eliza, and are enjoying life to the fullest out in the countryside.