House District 26
Email: James.Dill@legislature.maine.gov
Representing: Bradley, Old Town and Penobscot Indian Island
Committee(s): Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry; Inland Fisheries and Wildlife
Legislative Service:
House: 132nd, 131st, 126th, 125th;
Senate: 130th, 129th, 128th, 127th
Rep. Jim Dill is serving his fourth non-consecutive term in the Maine House of Representatives, having previously served from 2010 to 2014 and rejoining the House in 2022 after serving four terms in the Maine Senate.
A Maine native, Dill lives in Old Town and works for the University of Maine Cooperative Extension as the pest management specialist and cooperating professor in the School of Biological Sciences and the director of the Diagnostic and Research Lab.
He is an active member of his community, serving as the chairman of the Old Town/RSU 34 School Board for the past 26 years. He has also served on the board of the United Technologies Center, the CTE high school in Bangor, for the past 27 years, including as its chairman for the past 14 years. Additionally, he is a member of the Orono-Old Town Kiwanis.
Dill is a graduate of the University of Maine and holds a Ph.D. in entomology from Purdue University.