George J. Mitchell

Business, Mediation
One City Center, P.O. Box 9546
Portland, Maine 041129546


Business

Admitted

1960, Maine and District of Columbia

Law School

Georgetown University Law Center, LL.B., 1960

Law School Graduation Year

1960

College

Bowdoin College, B.A., 1954

Memberships

Biographical

Trial Attorney, U.S. Department of Justice, 1960-1962. Executive Assistant to Senator Muskie, 1962-1965. Assistant County Attorney, Cumberland County, Maine, 1971. U.S. Attorney, Maine, 1977-1979. U.S. District Judge, 1979-1980. U.S. Senator, Maine, 1980-1995. Majority Leader, U.S. Senate, 1988-1995. Chairman, International Crisis Group. Chairman, Northern Ireland Peace Talks. Author: World on Fire , 1990; Not for America Alone: The Triumph of Democracy and the Fall of Communism , 1997; Making Peace , 1999. Winner, Philadelphia Liberty Medal, 1998; Presidential Medal of Freedom, 1999; The Truman Institute Peace Prize, 1999; German Peace Prize, 1999. (Also Special Counsel, Verner, Liipfert, Bernhard, McPherson and Hand, Chartered, Washington, D.C.)

Military

With U.S. Army, 1954-1956