Gene Carter

Gene Carter (November 1, 1935 – November 17, 2021) was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Maine. Education and career Born in Milbridge, Maine, Carter received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Maine in 1958 and a Bachelor of Laws from New York University School of Law in 1961. He was a law clerk to Judge J. Spencer Bell of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit from 1961 to 1962, and was then in the United States Army Reserve, JAG Corps, from 1962 to 1968, achieving the rank of captain. Carter entered private practice in Bangor, Maine in 1965, remaining in practice until 1980, when he became an associate justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court from 1980 to 1983. Carter died on November 17, 2021.