John David Kennedy

John David Kennedy was appointed as a Judge of the Maine District Court in 2002, and sat in the District Courts in mid-coast Maine until 2013. He received an A.B. degree from the College of the Holy Cross in 1973, and a J.D. degree from Boston University Law School in 1976. He later completed post-graduate training in negotiation theory and mediation at the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School in 1995-96. He has also served as an adjunct faculty member at the University of Maine School of Law.

After retiring from the bench in 2013 he was Senior Counsel with Eaton Peabody, in Brunswick, Maine, where his practice centered on mediation and arbitration. He currently is President of the Kennedy Group, LLC, which consults on public policy and transportation issues. In 2019 he was appointed as a member of the State Claims Commission.

Judge Kennedy lives on a civil war era farm with his wife and pets and is working on a new book; an authoritative history about the Kennedy family, from 920 AD to the present. He also enjoys driving and tinkering with old cars and older boats.