Valerie Stanfill (born 1957 or 1958)[2] is an American judge who serves as the chief justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court.
[3] She received her Bachelor of Arts from Bryn Mawr College in 1979 and her Juris Doctor from the University of Maine School of Law in 1985.
[8] She served as a judge of the Maine District Court from January 2007 to February 2020.
On May 10, 2021, Governor Mills nominated Stanfill to be the chief justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court to fill the vacancy left by the retirement of Chief Justice Leigh Saufley.
[11] On June 3, 2021, the committee endorsement was upheld by the full Senate,[12] thereby confirming Stanfill, by a vote of 0–34.