---
type: Person
title: "Russell Black"
description: "ME Senate District 5 — ME State Senate District 5"
role: "ME Senate District 5"
party: "R"
level: "state"
branch: "legislative"
state: "ME"
district: "ME State Senate District 5"
represents: "us/states/me/districts/senate/5"
tenure:
  start: "2022-12-07"
  current: true
election:
  term_length: 2
  term_limit: "varies"
ids:
  person: "86a0e256-e884-44c6-8fdc-94c5e6443b2a"
  office: "3800cab2-3396-4ac0-999b-5b2084edbd61"
  tenure: "3973c2a3-a092-43d5-95f1-3577ba31e541"
  jurisdiction: "46580cf8-914a-47ca-98a6-22a1fb59e2f5"
sources:
  - field: tenure
    source: "OpenStates YAML via GitHub 2026-06-20"
  - field: jurisdiction
    source: "SLDU (Census 2025)"
confidence: official
tags: [officeholder, state, legislative, me]
timestamp: "2026-07-04"
---

# Russell Black

Current ME Senate District 5 (ME State Senate District 5).

Represents [ME State Senate District 5](/us/states/me/districts/senate/5.md).

## Sources

- tenure: OpenStates YAML via GitHub 2026-06-20
- jurisdiction: SLDU (Census 2025)

Generated from the Atlas officeholders v3 export (2026-07-04).