Richard Alexander Otto

Richard Otto was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1961. His father served as a medical officer on the Repose which was a Naval hospital ship in Vietnam in late 1968 through to 1969. He had a 30-year career as a pathologist at Bay State Medical Center in Springfield, Massachusetts. His mother was a schoolteacher prior to his birth and would later become the town librarian in Union, Connecticut in the 1970s. Richard graduated from Pomfret School in 1980. He received his bachelor's degree in political science in 1984 from the University of Connecticut. After a short period as a substitute school teacher, he travelled to the stunning metropolis of San Francisco to attend Golden Gate University School of Law. He graduated with his law degree in 1988. After his return from California, he initially was a per diem clerk at the Hartford Superior Court where he worked with the Honorable John M. Alexander and Judge John Maloney. He started his litigation career as an insurance defense attorney at the law firm of Yules and Yules. After two years of corporate law, he opened his own law office where he specialized in public interest law which included criminal defense, probate and child protection. He won two awards as a child protection lawyer. His first was from the Windham County Bar Association which is an annual award given to a lawyer on Law Day. He was the first and only child protection attorney to ever receive that honor. The second was given to him by his colleagues in the Willimantic Juvenile Lawyers Association in which he served as their president for 8 years. In 1990, he married his beautiful wife, Carol. His talented and beautiful daughter was born in October of 1991. He moved to Maine in September of 2004. He began his new career when he joined Maine Pretrial Services on January 1rst of 2005. The first 13 years he was a case manager for the Hancock County Adult Drug Treatment Court and then transferred to the Belfast office where he is involved in pretrial and post plea supervised bail. He had his first book published in May of 2017. His second and third volumes were published in 2019 and 2020. He currently lives with his wife in an old captain's home built in 1890 in Searsport, Maine.