The candidates at a glance

John Brautigam is in his second term representing Falmouth in the House of Representatives. As an assistant attorney general, he argued the case upholding the Maine Rx program before the U.S. Supreme Court.

Before serving as an assistant attorney general, he was the executive director of the Maine Citizen Leadership Fund. He has also worked as a high school history teacher and coach.

A native of Wisconsin, Brautigam graduated from Wesleyan University in 1982 and earned his law degree at Stanford Law School in 1991. He also earned a master’s degree in history from Trinity College in 1986.

Sean Faircloth is serving his third consecutive term in the House of Representatives and also serves as the assistant majority leader.

A former assistant attorney general, Faircloth was a senator representing Bangor for four years and was executive director of the Maine Discovery Museum in Bangor for five years.

He returned to the Legislature as a House member in 2002 and has been an assistant professor of justice studies at University College of Bangor.

Faircloth, born in California, graduated from Notre Dame University and received his law degree from the University of California Hastings College of the Law.

Janet Mills has been a lawyer throughout her adult life and has served in both public and private practice.

She has been an assistant attorney general, and in 1980 was the first woman in the Northeast to be elected as a district attorney. She was district attorney for Androscoggin, Franklin and Oxford counties. She has been in private practice since 1995 in Skowhegan.

She is in her third term as a state representative and was re-elected to the House last month.

Born in Farmington, she graduated from the University of Massachusetts and received her law degree from the University of Maine Law School.