WATERVILLE (AP) – Judge Frank M. Coffin has been given Colby College’s Morton A. Brody Distinguished Judicial Service Award.

Coffin, a Maine native who lives in South Portland, is a senior judge on the First Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals. He received the award and delivered a talk at a ceremony on the Colby campus on Saturday night.

Besides being a judge, Coffin, 86, served two terms from 1957 to 1961 as a U.S. congressman and has written four books.

The Brody Award was established to recognize a federal or state judge for judicial excellence. It is named for the late Morton Brody, a federal judge who died in 2000.

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