LEWISTON – Robert D. Beauchesne will be closing his law practice on October 31, 2003 to accept a position with the Maine Human Rights Commission. He has been a practicing lawyer in Lewiston since 1989 and has been the sole proprietor of his own general law practice since 1997.

In November he will begin working as a field investigator for the Maine Human Rights Commission, which is responsible for investigating and preventing discrimination in employment, housing or access to public accommodations on account of race, color, sex, physical or mental disability, religion, ancestry or national origin.

He graduated from Lewiston High School in 1980 and obtained his degree in political science from the University of Maine in Orono in 1984. He received his law degree from Southern Methodist University School of law in 1989 with a concentration in employment law and discrimination.

He is married to Sandra A. Beauchesne and has two children, Loren Lepage, 16, and Kirsty Beauchesne, 8.