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{{Short description|American judge}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Robert W. Clifford
| image =
| caption =
| office = Associate Justice of the [[Maine Supreme Judicial Court]]
| termstart = August 1, 1986
| termend = August 31, 2009
| appointer = [[Joseph E. Brennan]]
| predecessor = [[Elmer H. Violette]]
| successor = [[Joseph Jabar]]
| office1 = Chief Justice of the [[Maine Superior Court]]
| term_start1 = 1984
| term_end1 = August 1, 1986
| predecessor1 =
| successor1 =
| office2 = Justice of the [[Maine Superior Court]]
| term_start2 = June 8, 1979
| term_end2 = 1984
| appointer2 = Joseph E. Brennan
| predecessor2 =
| successor2 =
| state_senate3 = Maine
| district3 = 13th
| term_start3 = January 3, 1973
| term_end3 = January 5, 1977
| predecessor3 = William H. Clifford Jr.
| successor3 = Thomas M. Mangan
| office4 = Mayor of [[Lewiston, Maine|Lewiston]]
| term_start4 = January 1971
| term_end4 = January 1973
| predecessor4 = John B. Beliveau<ref name="ML">[https://www.lewistonmaine.gov/DocumentCenter/View/1188/Historic-Lew-Its-Government-1982?bidId= Historic Lewiston - It's Government (1982)]</ref>
| successor4 = John C. Orestis<ref name="ML" />
| office5 = Member of the [[Lewiston, Maine|Lewiston Board of Aldermen]]
| term_start5 = January 1968
| term_end5 = January 1970<br>President: 1969
| predecessor5 =
| successor5 =
| birth_name = Robert William Clifford
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1937|05|02}}
| birth_place = [[Lewiston, Maine]], U.S.
| death_date =
| death_place =
| spouse = Clementina
| children = 2
| party = [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]]
| education = [[Bowdoin College]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|AB]])<br> [[Boston College]] ([[Juris Doctor|JD]])<br>[[University of Virginia]] ([[Master of Laws|LLM]])
| branch = [[United States Army]]
| rank = [[Captain (United States O-3)|Captain]]
| serviceyears = 1962-1964
| unit = [[U.S. Seventh Army]]
}}
'''Robert William Clifford'''<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=JYkMAQAAMAAJ&q=Mayor+of+Lewiston,+Maine+Robert+Clifford Mayors Hall of Fame, 1995-1996]</ref> (born May 2, 1937) is an American politician, lawyer and retired associate justice of the [[Maine Supreme Judicial Court]]. He was appointed to this position on August 1, 1986 by then-governor [[Joseph E. Brennan|Joseph Brennan]]. He was reappointed to seven-year terms in 1993, 2000, and 2007. He retired in 2009.<ref>{{cite web
| title = Justice leaving Maine supreme court
| url = http://www.
| publisher = Bangor Daily News
| author = Judy Harrison
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| accessdate = 2009-07-02
}}</ref>
==Education==
Clifford grew up in [[Lewiston, Maine]] and graduated from [[Lewiston High School (Maine)|Lewiston High School]] in 1955.<ref name="Interview" /><ref name="ML" /> He graduated from [[Bowdoin College]] in 1959, and earned a [[Juris Doctor|J.D.]] degree from [[Boston College Law School]] in 1962. He then served in the [[United States Army]] from 1962 to 1964 with the [[U.S. Seventh Army]] in [[Germany]],<ref name="Interview">[https://scarab.bates.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1087&context=muskie_oh Clifford, Robert oral history interview]</ref> attaining the rank of captain. In 1998, he earned an LLM in Judicial Process from the [[University of Virginia School of Law]].<ref name="Cleaves">{{cite web
| title = The Supreme Judicial Court of the State of Maine, 1820 to 2009
| url = http://www.cleaves.org/sjcbios1.htm#RWC
| publisher = Cleaves Law Library
| author = Howard H. Dana, Jr.
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}}</ref>
==Career==
Upon leaving the armed forces, Clifford practiced law in Lewiston-Auburn for fifteen years with the firm Clifford & Clifford. He was also an alderman and a two-time mayor in this city.
During his legislative tenure, he represented the senate on the Commission to Revise Maine's Probate Laws, which drafted Maine's current Probate Code. In 1978 and 1979 he was the Chairman of the Lewiston Charter Commission, which drafted Lewiston's current city charter.
On June 8, 1979, former Governor Joseph Brennan appointed Clifford to the state's [[Maine Superior Court|Superior Court]]. Another appointment by Chief Justice [[Vincent L. McKusick]] made Clifford the first chief justice of the Maine Superior Court in 1984, a position he would hold until his appointment to the Supreme Judicial Court on August 1, 1986 by Governor Brennan.
Justice Clifford served as the Court's liaison to the Advisory Committee on the Rules of Criminal Procedure, and to the Maine Assistance Program. He also served as an adviser to the Criminal Law Advisory Commission.<ref name="Cleaves" /><ref name="MEcourts">{{cite web
|title = Supreme Court Justice Biographies
|url = http://www.courts.maine.gov/maine_courts/supreme/justices_bios.html
|publisher = State of Maine Judicial Branch
|accessdate = 2017-02-08
|url-status = bot: unknown
|archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20090702092939/http://www.courts.maine.gov/maine_courts/supreme/justices_bios.html
|archivedate = 2009-07-02
}}</ref>
Prior to his judicial service, Clifford worked in the state's [[Maine Senate|senate]] during the 106th and 107th [[Maine Legislature|Legislatures]] as a Democrat.<ref name="MEcourts" /><ref name="Interview" />
==Personal life==
His wife is Clementina whom he married in 1964 and they have two children.<ref name="ML" />
==References==
{{Reflist}}
*[https://www.martindale.com/attorney/hon-robert-w-clifford-609709/ Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory Profile]
*[http://www.cleaves.org/sjcbios1.htm#RWC (95) Robert W. Clifford Associate Justice 1986-present (old webpage)]
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