Guy H. Sturgis

Guy Hayden Sturgis^[1] (March 3, 1877 – January 18, 1951) of Portland, Maine, was a long-serving Justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court from August 13, 1923, to March 8, 1949, serving as Chief Justice after August 8, 1940.^[2]

Born in New Gloucester, Maine, Sturgis was educated in the town's common schools, and graduated from Bowdoin College in 1898. He received a law degree from Columbia University Law School in 1899, and studied law at the office of Thomas Brackett Reed.^[3] Sturgis served as Maine Attorney General from 1917 to 1920 and was succeeded by Ransford W. Shaw.