Norman, Hanson & DeTroy is pleased to announce that Cecilia J. Shields-Auble has joined the firm as an associate in the firm’s litigation group.  Her practice includes criminal and civil litigation in both state and federal courts. Recently, Cecilia served as a law clerk for Judge Karen Frink Wolf of the U.S. District Court for the District of Maine as well as for Justices John O’Neil Jr., Daniel Billings, and Thomas Warren of the Maine Superior Court.

Cecilia graduated cum laude from the University of Maine School of Law where she received the Justice Sidney W. Wernick prize for legal writing, served as the head case note and comment editor of the Maine Law Review, mentored first-year law students as a legal writing teaching assistant, and competed on the criminal law moot court team.  During law school, Cecilia completed judicial externships with Judge Wolf as well as Justice Catherine R. Connors of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court, interned in the criminal division of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Maine, and assisted low-income Mainers as a student attorney in the Cumberland Legal Aid Clinic.

Prior to law school, Cecilia graduated from Berry College in Rome, Georgia, where she studied public relations and was a four-year member of the equestrian team.  She moved to Maine after graduation and worked in the greater Portland area’s marketing industry for several years. In her free time, Cecilia enjoys fly fishing, gardening, and cooking.