Background
Lancaster, Ralph Ivan was born on May 9, 1930 in Bangor, Maine, United States. Son of Ralph I. and Mary Brigid (Kelleher) Lancaster.
Lancaster, Ralph Ivan was born on May 9, 1930 in Bangor, Maine, United States. Son of Ralph I. and Mary Brigid (Kelleher) Lancaster.
College of the Holy Cross (Bachelor of Arts, 1952). Harvard Law School (Bachelor of Laws 1955). Law Clerk, United States.
District Court Judge Edward T. Gignoux.
1957-1959.
Law clerk, United States District Court District Maine, 1957-1959;
partner firm, Pierce Atwood, Portland, Maine., since 1961;
managing partner, Pierce Atwood, 1993-1996;
independent counsel In Re Herman appointed by special division, District of Columbia Court Appeals, since 1998. Conductor trial advocacy seminar Harvard University. Lecturer U. Maine; chairman merit selection panel United States Magistrate for District of Maine, 1982, 88.
Board visitors U. Maine School Law, 1991-1996, chair, 1991-1993. Special master by appointment Supreme Court of the United States Court in State of New Jersey versus State of Nevada et al, 1987-1988. Member 1st Center Advisory Committee on Rules, 1991-1996, legal advisory board Martindale Hubbell, since 1990.
Represented United States in Gulf of Maine in World Court at The Hague, 1984.
Maine Judicial Council, 1961-1969. Maine Supreme Judicial Court Committee on Rules of Evidence, 19731978. Criminal Law Revision Committee, 1976-1978.
Committee on Court Administration, 1978-1986.
Chairman, Merit Selection Panel for United States Magistrate for the District of Maine, 1982, 1988. Counsel for United States before the International Court of Justice in case concerning delimitation of Maritime boundary in the Gulf of Maine area (Gulf of Maine Case), Special Master by Appointment of the United States Supreme Court in State of New Jersey v.
State of Nevada, et als, 1987-1988. State Chairman, Supreme Court Historical Society, 1985-1990.
Member, MartindaleHubbell Legal Advisory Board, since 1990.
Member: Cumberland County, Maine State (President, 1982. Bar Association Delegate to American Bar Association, 1982-1987) and American (State Delegate, since 1987. Member, Standing Committee on Federal Judiciary, 1984-1989.
Chairperson, ) Bar Associations.
Maine Bar Foundation (Director, 1984-1985). American Counsel Association.
Maine Trial Lawyers Association. The Association of Trial Lawyers of America.
American Judicature Society (Maine Director, 1980-1983).
National Association of Railroad Trial Counsel. American Society of Hospital Attorneys (Charter Member). International Society of Barristers: Federation of Insurance Counsel.
American Law Institute.
Institute of Judicial Administration.
Married Mary Lou Pooler, August 21, 1954. Children: Mary Lancaster Miller, Anne, Elizabeth, Christopher Peoples, John, Martin.
