Sarah L. Glynn
Sarah Glynn is a retired United States Navy Commander and has been practicing law for more than ten years. She concentrates her practice on family law, criminal law, and civil litigation in courts throughout Maine, but focuses her practice in Oxford, Androscoggin, Cumberland, and Franklin counties.
Born in Newport, Rhode Island, Sarah was the child of two educators who established the family homestead in the town of Foxborough, Massachusetts. Following in her parents’ footsteps, Sarah completed her Bachelor of Science in Education degree, with a dual major in Special Education and Elementary Education, from Westfield State College in Westfield Massachusetts in 1978. Faced with the prospect of settling into a calm life at the foothills of the Berkshire Mountains, Sarah chose instead to join the Navy as an unrestricted line officer, a career choice that she immediately embraced for its demands, its challenges, and its tremendous professional and personal rewards.
In the military, Sarah served as one of the first fifty women officers to qualify as a Surface Warfare Officer on Navy ships. Eventually finding herself in the amphibious community as a Company Commander in an amphibious Seabee unit, Sarah whet her whistle for the legal profession through training as a Military Justice Officer in 1985 at the Naval Justice School in Newport, Rhode Island, a collateral assignment that remained throughout the rest of her Navy career.
Upon retirement, Sarah selected the University of Maine School of Law in Portland to pursue her JD degree. As a “flat-lander transplant” raised in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Sarah was impressed with the high quality of life reputation of the law school and the State of Maine, and is delighted to have been welcomed into the community. She remains active with several volunteer opportunities through Kiwanis, veterans service groups, and community bands.
Education:
* J.D., University of Maine Law School (1999)
* Westfield State College (1978), BS in Education,
cum laude
Bar Admissions:
*Maine
*Massachusetts
*United States District Court for the District of Maine
*United States Courts of Appeals for the First Circuit
Associations, Avocations, and other Vocations:
*Maine Bar Association
*Oxford County Bar Association
*Oxford County Trial Lawyers Association (former President)
*Disabled American Veterans
*The Military Officers Association
*New England District of Kiwanis (current Lieutenant Governor for Division 5)
*Norway-Paris Kiwanis Club (former President)
*American Legion Foster Carroll Post #72
*Volunteer Legal Services at Maine Veterans Home
*Volunteer Lawyers Project
*Fanfare Concert Band
Linda C. Russell
Linda Russell has been practicing law for almost 20 years. Her current practice focuses on estate planning, probate and real estate, but over her career she has handled many different types of legal matters, representing individuals, businesses and governmental entities. No matter what the legal issue, she welcomes the opportunity to meet with clients, discuss ways to prevent trouble and find the right solutions for problems that have already occurred.
Linda was born in Camden, New Jersey. After college she moved to Maine. She worked as a first mate on a fishing boat and a nursing home administrator before going to law school. After receiving her J.D., Linda clerked for the Honorable Daniel E. Wathen and Samuel W. Collins, Jr., Justices of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court. She was a partner at Petruccelli, Martin & Haddow in Portland, Maine and, just prior to joining Sarah Glynn in the Oxford Hills, she taught sixth grade at Gilbert School in Augusta, and paralegal students at Andover College. Linda has one son, Sean Logan Russell, who is getting his Master’s Degree in Library Science at the University of Buffalo.
Education:
* J.D., University of Maine School of Law (1990),
graduating in the top 10.
* Albright College, Reading, PA. (1980), BS in Psychobiology, magna cum laude
*Extended Teacher Education Program (ETEP), University of Southern Maine (2005)
Bar Admissions:
* Maine (1990)
* United States District Court for the District of Maine (1991)
*United States Supreme Court (2000)
Associations, Avocations and other Vocations:
* Maine State Bar Association
* Small Woodlot Owners Association
* Maple Syrup Producer
* Concert Coordinator for the Bowdoin College Department of Music