--- title: "Lance Edward Walker | KnowJudges" canonical: "https://knowjudges.com/kyj/judge/lance-e-walker" page_type: "judge_profile" updated: "2026-10-08" --- # Lance Edward Walker U.S. District Court for the District of Maine · Chief Judge ## Profile - Court: U.S. District Court for the District of Maine - State: Maine - Role: Chief Judge - Service status: active - Last verified: 2026-07-25 ## Summary Official statewide and applicable court procedural guidance applies to this judge. ## Biography ### Professional career - Judge, District Court, D. Maine, 2018-present - The Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Maine, a position he assumed on March 18, 2024 - March 18, 2024 – Became Chief Judge of the court - Justice, Maine Superior Court, 2015-2018 - Judge, Maine District Court, 2014-2015 - After law school, Walker held the role of a law clerk to three Maine Superior Court justices (Atwood, Marden, and Studstrup) from 2000 to 2001. ### Education - received his J.D. with honors from the University of Maine School of Law in 2000 - University of Maine — philosophy — B.A. (1996) - Foxcroft Academy ### Additional information - Private practice, Portland, ME, 2001-2014 - Born March 13, 1972, in Milo, Maine. - Date of birth: 1972-01-01 - handling personal injury and products liability cases for insurance companies, trying 20 cases to verdict - As Chief Judge, Walker presides over the court’s docket, oversees judicial administration, and represents the court in official capacities. - He then practiced law in Bangor and later in Portland - His office provides resources, including scripts for criminal proceedings, to litigants and attorneys - Walker grew up in Milo, Maine, and later in Dover-Foxcroft, where his parents owned a hardware store and travel agency. - Birth place: Milo, ME ## Before you appear - Read the judge-specific standing order first when one is listed. - Check the docket and case orders for requirements that supersede broader guidance. - Confirm current remote-access and courtroom technology arrangements before the proceeding. ## Courtroom Rules ### courtroom technology Scope: courtwide Courtwide presentation-related guidance applies to this judge. Evidence excerpt: . The EEP also allows attorneys to connect a laptop for presentation of evidence using PowerPoint or other presentation software. Attorneys MUST provide their own technical assistance in preparing the laptop evidence presentation. [Electronic Evidence Presenter | District of Maine | United States District Court](https://www.med.uscourts.gov/electronic-evidence-presenter) Source checked: 2026-07-24 ### civil remote testimony Scope: courtwide In federal district-court civil proceedings, testimony is ordinarily taken in open court; remote contemporaneous testimony requires good cause in compelling circumstances and appropriate safeguards. Evidence excerpt: For good cause in compelling circumstances and with appropriate safeguards, the court may permit testimony in open court by contemporaneous transmission from a different location. [Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 43(a), Testimony in Open Court](https://www.uscourts.gov/forms-rules/current-rules-practice-procedure/federal-rules-civil-procedure) Source checked: 2026-07-26 ### criminal recording and broadcasting Scope: courtwide Federal district courts may not permit courtroom photography or broadcasting during criminal judicial proceedings unless a statute or another federal rule provides an exception. Evidence excerpt: Except as otherwise provided by a statute or these rules, the court must not permit the taking of photographs in the courtroom during judicial proceedings or the broadcasting of judicial proceedings from the courtroom. [Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 53, Courtroom Photographing and Broadcasting Prohibited](https://www.uscourts.gov/court-records/access-court-proceedings/remote-public-access-proceedings/history-cameras-broadcasting-and-remote-public-access-courts) Source checked: 2026-07-26 ## Sources - [Official profile](https://www.fjc.gov/node/5375111) - [Official roster](https://www.fjc.gov/node/5375111) - [Federal Judicial Center biography](https://www.fjc.gov/node/5375111) - [CourtListener judicial biographical directory](https://www.courtlistener.com/person/8647/lance-edward-walker/) - [Electronic Evidence Presenter | District of Maine | United States District Court](https://www.med.uscourts.gov/electronic-evidence-presenter) - [Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 43(a), Testimony in Open Court](https://www.uscourts.gov/forms-rules/current-rules-practice-procedure/federal-rules-civil-procedure) - [Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 53, Courtroom Photographing and Broadcasting Prohibited](https://www.uscourts.gov/court-records/access-court-proceedings/remote-public-access-proceedings/history-cameras-broadcasting-and-remote-public-access-courts) - [CourtListener judicial biographical directory](https://www.courtlistener.com/person/8647/lance-edward-walker/) - [Wikidata: Lance E. Walker](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q51738539) - [Current District of Maine materials identify Lance E. Walker as Chief Judge.](https://www.med.uscourts.gov/sites/med/files/Handout_for_Self-Represented_Parties.pdf) - [CourtListener judicial biographical directory](https://www.courtlistener.com/person/8647/lance-edward-walker/) - [Wikidata: Lance E. Walker](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q51738539) ## JSON-LD ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "WebPage", "@id": "https://knowjudges.com/kyj/judge/lance-e-walker", "url": "https://knowjudges.com/kyj/judge/lance-e-walker", "name": "Lance Edward Walker | KnowJudges", "description": "Lance Edward Walker, U.S. District Court for the District of Maine. 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Section-specific exceptions, waivers, later amendments and case orders remain applicable. This is a source excerpt, not an exhaustive statement of the rule. [Official source](https://www.uscourts.gov/sites/default/files/document/federal-rules-of-civil-procedure.pdf). Collected 2026-10-27. - [Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, December 1, 2025](https://knowjudges.com/courtroom-rules/national-shared-set-8721a344fececced2257fe1d) — Criminal proceedings in United States District Courts; this conservative mapping does not distribute appellate-specific provisions to appellate judges. Section-specific exceptions, waivers, later amendments and case orders remain applicable. This is a source excerpt, not an exhaustive statement of the rule. [Official source](https://www.uscourts.gov/sites/default/files/document/federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure.pdf). Collected 2026-10-27.