Born in Houlton, Maine, Kelley has been a practicing trial attorney since 1966, specializing in criminal defense, personal injury, family law litigation, and social security. Kelley is a member of the Maine Bar Association, American Trial Lawyers Association, Maine Trial Lawyers Association, and was past President of the Aroostook County Bar Association. Kelley attended Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter, New Hampshire where he starred on the Basketball team. Kelley graduated from Harvard College in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1963 where he was a member of the Varsity Basketball team for three years earning all Ivy Honors for two years. Kelley was inducted into the Maine Sports Hall of Fame in 1997. After college, he attended the Boston College Law School for two years after which he was selected as a Legislative and Press Assistant to Congressman William Hathaway at which time he transferred in 1965 to the American University Law School in Washington, D.C. from which he graduated in 1966. After graduation from Law School he returned to Maine to work in Congressman William Hathaway’s Re-election campaign and was a Political Advance man for Senator Muskie in his 1968 Vice-Presidential Campaign. Mr. Kelley was an officer in the Maine Army National Guard and started practicing law in late 1966 which he has done to the present. In 1974 he ran for the Democratic nomination for Governor of Maine. His opponents included George Mitchell and Joe Brennan and three others. Mitchell became the victor in this hard fought race. |