Alec N. Youngblood-Avery

Alec N. Youngblood-Avery is a practicing attorney with experience in the areas of criminal law, child protective law, and family law including divorce, parental rights and responsibilities, and protection for abuse and harassment.  

Alec graduated magna cum laude from the University of Maine School of Law in May of 2018.  While in law school, Alec served as a chair in the Women’s Law Association and a teaching assistant for Evidence.  Alec was the inaugural recipient of the James M. Roux Fund in support of her work as a summer intern at the Cumberland Legal Aid Clinic.  She went on to serve as a student attorney at the Clinic for the remainder of her time in law school. While there she handled divorces, parental rights and responsibilities matters, over a dozen protection from abuse hearings, and an appeal to the Maine Supreme Judicial Court, which she won, thereby establishing the “prisoner mailbox rule” in the state of Maine.  Upon graduation, Alec was presented the award for scholastic achievement in the area of criminal law.  

Originally from Texas, Alec earned her BA from the University of North Texas in history and secondary education.  She now resides in Portland with her husband and their two dogs.