Prior to joining Rudman Winchell, he served for more than eight years as Assistant City Solicitor for the City of Bangor.  He is the author of “Municipal Regulation of Nude Dancing”, published in the Maine Bar Journal, Vol. 22, No. 1, Winter 2007, and “Handicap Discrimination, Zoning, & the Federal Fair Housing Act”, published in the Maine Bar Journal, Vol. 13, No. 4, July 1998.

John is a past President of the Downtown Bangor Partnership, a non-profit organization whose mission is to promote and market activities that enhance the distinctive identity of downtown Bangor and which encourage retention and growth of commercial, residential, and cultural life within the downtown district. He also is a Member of the Bangor Target Area Development Corporation.

John K. Hamer was born in Germany and grew up in Amherst, New Hampshire.  He received his B.A. from McGill University, and earned his J.D. and a Master of Studies in Environmental Law from Vermont Law School.

Bar Admissions

Maine, 1995
New Hampshire, 1994*
U.S. District Court, District of Maine, 1999
U.S. District Court, District of New Hampshire, 1994*
U.S. Supreme Court, 1999

Education

Vermont Law School
South Royalton, Vermont , 1994
Juris Doctor
Honors: cum laude

Vermont Law School
South Royalton, Vermont , 1994
M.S., Master of Studies in Environmental Law
Honors: magna cum laude

McGill University
Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 1990
B.A., Bachelor of Arts
Major:  Political Science