NEW HIRES
The following people joined Diversified Communications:
Anthony Sciarra was hired as a junior help desk technician. Sciarra previously worked for Hannaford Supermarket.
Jessica Woods joined as an accounts receivable team lead. Woods was previously employed with RKO CPA in South Portland.
Parker Swenson was hired as an operations coordinator. Swenson previously worked for 360 Media Ventures in Portland.
Chris Carrier joined as a junior web designer.
Carrier was previously employed with Midcoast Federal Credit Union in Bath.

Stephen D. Krasinski joined MDI Biological Laboratory as vice president of administration.
Krasinski succeeds Patricia Hand, who retired last month after 15 years at the institution. He comes to MDI from Boston Children’s Hospital, where he worked as principal investigator.

Brittnae DeRoche joined the Mid-Maine Chamber to help grow its regional marketing efforts.
DeRoche will focus on updating social media pages, all chamber websites and help member businesses network through the chamber’s events and activities.

Jeremy Cluchey joined Maine Audubon as director of communications and marketing.
Cluchey most recently served as director of creative design at Bates College.

St. Germain Collins announced two new hires:
Kris Plante was hired as an environmental scientist. Before joining the firm, he worked as an environmental scientist at a firm in Massachusetts.
Ty Hughes was hired as an environmental, health and safety specialist. He previously worked as a senior environmental specialist.

Karlene Burrell-McRae has been named dean at Colby College. Burrell-McRae was previously associate dean of students and executive director of the Center for Identity and Inclusion at the University of Chicago.
Burrell-McRae, who graduated from Colby in 1994, has served as a Colby trustee since 2014.

Theresa Mitchell has joined L.S. Robinson Co. in Southwest Harbor as a receptionist and office assistant.
Mitchell, of Bernard, is new to the insurance industry. She passed the Maine exam for a property and casualty insurance license in mid-May.

Sarah Moore has joined Portland magazine as assistant editor and publisher.
Moore, of Portland, recently moved from her hometown of London, where she worked for The Telegraph Newspaper in the editorial and marketing departments.

Elizabeth Murphy of South Portland joined Portland magazine as an advertising executive.
For the past 13 years, Murphy has owned and run her own business, Elizabeth Murphy Art. She has worked with FOX News, NASSAU Broadcasting and The New York Times.

Jennifer Hutchins joined the Maine Association of Nonprofits as executive director.
Hutchins brings more than 20 years of experience serving the nonprofit community both in Maine and Washington, D.C., most recently heading Creative Portland. Hutchins is replacing Scott Schnapp, who is stepping down after 14 years of service. Hutchins will join the organization on July 18.

Brian Townsend was named executive director of Amistad Inc.
He succeeds Peter Driscoll, who has served as executive director since 1996.
Townsend previously worked at Preble Street in Portland as its director of social work and as a member of its clinical intervention program, working to address issues of homelessness, poverty and mental illness.

PROMOTIONS
Preservation Management Inc. announces two promotions:

Christine Jenkinson was named president and CEO.
Jenkinson, of Portland, joined PMI in 2009, managing special assets for the president. In 2010, she was promoted to chief operating officer and was named senior vice president in 2013. She has over 17 years of experience in the affordable housing industry.

Kris Landry was named regional vice president of operations.
Landry, of Gorham, joined PMI in 2009 as a property manager. Most recently, she was regional director. She currently oversees a portfolio of 51 properties representing almost 4,000 apartments in Maine, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Michigan, Wisconsin and Colorado.

E. Whitney Soule was named dean of admissions and financial aid at Bowdoin College.
She succeeds Scott Meiklejohn, who will become senior vice president for development and alumni relations at the college.
Soule joined the admissions staff at Bowdoin in the summer of 2008 as senior associate dean. A year later, she was named director of admissions.

Competitive Energy Services announced three promotions:
Michelle Tham was promoted to director of analytics.
Tham joined CES in 2007 as an analyst and has grown her expertise in commodity markets, regulatory issues, renewable energy, tariff and contract negotiations and facility operations.
Greg Smith was named senior energy analyst.
Smith joined CES in 2012 after receiving his undergraduate degree in finance from the University of Maine.
Matt Gamache was promoted to energy and renewables analyst. Gamache joined CES as an energy analyst in 2014.

Dan Taylor was promoted to a senior structural engineer at Stantec.
Taylor joined the Scarborough company’s transportation group in 2011 and has more than 10 years of experience in design and construction of transportation projects.

Market Decisions Research has promoted Brian Robertson to vice president of research.
Robertson has served as director of research at MDR since 2000.

NEW HIRES
Susan Pope joined Bangor Savings Bank as vice president and commercial relationship manager at its Ogunquit branch.
Pope has 15 years of banking experience. She previously served as a commercial lender for Key Bank and Kennebunk Savings Bank.

Mary Polito joined Albin, Randall & Bennett in Portland as an operations director.
Polito, of Portland, was previously a practice administrator at Maine Medical Partners – Maine Health Cardiology.

PROMOTIONS
Gary Bergeron, of the Breakwater Group at Morgan Stanley, was promoted to vice president, senior portfolio manager, financial adviser in the firm’s wealth management office in Portland.
Bergeron, of Yarmouth, has been with Morgan Stanley Wealth Management since 2009.

Betsy Sibley was promoted to vice president of marketing and business development at Community Credit Union.
Sibley, of Turner, was previously the marketing/business development director at Community Credit Union. She has been with the credit union for four years.

Albin, Randall & Bennett in Portland promoted four accountants:
Samantha Anderson was promoted to a senior accountant. She joined the firm as an assistant senior accountant in 2014. She lives in Saco.
Karla Brannen was promoted to a tax manager. Brannen joined the firm as a senior accountant in 2014. Prior to joining the firm, she was a senior staff accountant at Dawson, Smith, Purvis & Bassett, P.A. She lives in Portland.
Ian Dumond was promoted to a senior accountant. Dumond, of Portland was a tax intern in 2012.
Amy Kronenthal was promoted to a senior accountant after recently achieving her licensing as a CPA. Prior to joining ARB, Kronenthal served as director of finance and human resources for the Migis Hotel Group in Portland. She lives in Portland.

GENERAL
Midcoast Federal Credit Union opened its fifth branch and new corporate headquarters at 186 Lower Main St. in Freeport.
A grand opening celebration will be held from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. on July 23.

NEW HIRES
Clark Insurance hired four people to work in its Portland office.
Nicholas Jobin joined as an associate account manager in the business insurance services department. Jobin, of Westbrook, graduated from St. Joseph’s College of Maine.

Dana Hayward joined as an account analyst. She lives in North Yarmouth and is a recent graduate of the University of Southern Maine.

Tammy Spaulding, of South Portland, was hired as an account manager in the personal insurance department. She has more than five years of experience in the industry.

Heather Clark, of Windham and Westbrook, was also hired as an account analyst in the personal insurance department. She brings 13 years of insurance experience to the agency.

Meghan Flynn was hired as sales assistant at Norton Insurance Agency.
Flynn, of Portland, was previously a group/corporate sales representative for Fairfield Inn Marriott in Scarborough and an insurance sales producer for State Farm Insurance.

Jeremy Pickford joined Allen Insurance and Financial.
Pickford, of Camden, recently returned to Maine after a global career in marketing and retail. He obtained his license to sell property and casualty insurance in the state of Maine in December 2015.

Cameron Gartley joined the personal insurance division at Allen Insurance and Financial.
Gartley, of Rockport, previously worked for Camden National Bank.

Timothy Forte has joined the USI South Portland office as vice president of the Maine Operating Co.’s commercial insurance practice.
Forte began his insurance career in business development for Liberty Mutual prior to joining USI.

PROMOTIONS
Karen Libby was promoted to director of claims at Patriot Insurance Co.
Libby has been with Patriot since 2014 and has more than 25 years of insurance claims experience.

Allen Insurance and Financial announced that four people have earned their licenses to sell life insurance in Maine. Meesha Luce, Leann McMusic, Chris Wilson and Diane Zollo are now licensed to sell life insurance. All are personal insurance account managers in Allen’s Rockland office.

Meesha Luce

Leann McMusic,

Chris Wilson

Diane Zollo

Another three employees at Allen also received their state insurance licenses. Amanda Heal, Courtney Leonard and Samantha Runius have obtained a license to sell property and casualty insurance in Maine.
Heal, a receptionist in the company’s Rockland office, joined Allen in 2015.

Leonard is a scanning associate in the company’s Camden office. She joined Allen Insurance and Financial in 2015.

Runius, a business insurance processor in the Camden office, joined the company in 2008.

AWARDS and RECOGNITIONS
Joshua Ellis, an account executive in the business insurance department of Clark Insurance, has earned the industry designation Certified Insurance Counselor.
Ellis, of Falmouth, is a graduate of Ithaca College and joined Clark Insurance in 2009.

The Maine Chapter of the Chartered Property Casualty Underwriters Society recently recognized Rachel Banister as the recipient of the 2016 Lee G. Allen President’s award of excellence.
Bannister is currently working at Patrons Oxford Insurance Co. in Auburn as a marketing supervisor.

Insurance Professionals of Greater Portland, the local chapter of International Association of Insurance Professionals, was awarded winner of Margaret M. Horvath Education Award and runner-up of the Karolyn E. Frost Public Relations Award at the Region 1 conference.

Allen Insurance and Financial of Camden announced that Jo-Ann Neal and Jennifer Wadsworth completed the National Association of Health Insurance Underwriter’s Benefits Account Manager Certification Course.
Neal joined the company in 2013 and works with clients on group benefits. She also assists individuals enrolling in Medicare and individual health insurance.

Wadsworth joined the company in 2014 and works with clients on group benefits with a focus on group health insurance.

The firm also announced that Brandy Schofield completed the National Association of Health Insurance Underwriter’s Consumer Directed Health Care Certification Course.
She is an account manager in the company’s insured benefits division.

BOARD APPOINTMENTS
Insurance Professionals of Greater Portland, the local chapter of International Association of Insurance Professionals, elected officers:
Adele Nichols was elected president; Amee Rice, as president-elect; Nicole Glover, as secretary; and Heather Caston-Talbot, as treasurer.

NEW HIRES
Andrew Slattery joined Dawson, Smith, Purvis & Bassett after completing an internship during the 2016 tax season.
Slattery recently graduated from the University of Southern Maine with a degree in accounting. He lives in Auburn.

People’s United Bank has hired Donna Temple as senior vice president, senior wealth management officer.
Temple brings more than 18 years of experience at Bangor Savings Bank, Fleet Bank and the law firm Pierce Atwood.

People’s United also hired Barbara Raths as senior vice president, senior relationship manager for government banking.
Raths, of Portland, was previously the team leader for treasury at WEX Inc. in South Portland. She also served as deputy treasurer for the state of Maine from 2005 to 2013.

Kennebunk Savings has hired Thomas Zuke as senior vice president and chief financial officer.
Zuke, of Saco, was previously with another Maine mutual savings institution, where he had been chief financial officer since 2009.

Jessica Schneckloth was recently hired at Trademark Federal Credit Union as the member services manager.
Schneckloth brings 14 years of experience in finance.

Macpage LLC has hired Elena Kuvshinova and Ashleigh Gagne as audit associates.
Kuvshinova, of Wells, began her accounting practice this year after completing an internship with Macpage during the tax season.
Gagne, of Skowhegan, has practiced in public accounting since the 2104 tax season. She also completed her first internship with Macpage. Prior to joining the firm, she worked as a financial analyst.

Northeast Bank has hired Zach Farrington as senior mortgage loan officer.
Farrington, of Lewiston, has spent the past six years in the financial services industry. Prior to joining Northeast Bank, he worked in the mortgage divisions of RMS Mortgage, TD Bank and Bank of America.

Skowhegan Savings Bank has hired Steve Thomas as senior vice president of commercial lending.
Thomas, of Hermon, brings more than 22 years of banking and management experience with a primary focus on the commercial market. Most recently, he worked for Camden National as the senior vice president and director of commercial banking for northern Maine.

SIS Bank has hired Karyn Scharf Morin as the new vice president, senior retail banker.
Most recently, Morin was a CRA officer at Kennebunk Savings Bank.

PROMOTIONS
Katahdin Trust promoted David Cambridge and Kevin Plourde, who together have nearly 40 years of service at Katahdin Trust.
Cambridge, of Chapman, was promoted to senior vice president, commercial services officer. He joined the bank in 1999. He was promoted to vice president in 2001 and to regional vice president in 2014.

Plourde, of Caribou, was promoted to senior vice president, credit administrator. He joined the bank in 1995. In 1999, he was promoted to vice president, credit administrator.

PeoplesChoice Credit Union recently promoted Daniel Dallaire to mortgage administration manager at its Saco branch.
Dallaire was previously a mortgage loan originator with PeoplesChoice serving the Sanford/Wells area.

BOARD APPOINTMENTS
The Maine Estate Planning Council announced that the following board members were elected as officers for the 2016-2017 fiscal year.
Joseph Powers, of UBS Financial Services, was elected president. Robin Cyr, of Albin Randall & Bennett, was named vice president. Kerry Peabody, who works for Clark Insurance, was named treasurer. Timothy Woodhouse, of Acadia Trust, N.A., was elected secretary; and Jennifer Kruszewski, of Epstein & O’Donovan, LLP, is immediate past president.

AWARDS and RECOGNITIONS
Atlantic Federal Credit Union was named one of the “Healthiest Credit Unions” in the country by Deposit Accounts, a leading bank account comparison website.
Atlantic placed in the top 3 percent of more than 6,000 federally insured credit unions.
Atlantic is a financial cooperative owned and operated by its members. It has a growing membership of more than 20,000 Mainers, $300 million in assets and locations in Brunswick, Cumberland, Freeport and Topsham.

GENERAL
University Credit Union opened a drive-up lane at its Farmington branch.
The drive-up ITM allows credit union members to perform a variety of transactions traditionally done in branch. Transactions available include withdrawals, deposits, transfers, check cashing, balance inquiries and loan payments.

NEW HIRES
Brianna Boutin, a family nurse practitioner, has joined Central Maine Pediatrics in Lewiston.
Most recently, Boutin underwent clinical experience at Augusta Family Medicine. Previously, she received clinical experience at Westbrook Family Practice, Intermed, P.A., and at Maine Medical Center in Portland.
Boutin previously worked as a registered nurse at Maine Medical Center in Portland.

PDT Architects expanded its staff with four new hires.
Keegan Carmichael, of Portland, joined as an architect. Most recently, he worked for Jeff Demers Design in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. He is licensed to practice architecture in Maine and Massachusetts.

Alyssa Phanitdasack and Nick Conner were hired as architectural designers.
Phanitdasack, an architectural designer, has been working on the new Mount Ararat High School in MSAD 75. She lives in Portland.
Conner, an architectural designer, worked most recently at Arnold Jacobson Architects in North Attleboro, Massachusetts. He lives in Portland.

Kirsten Stolte, of Portland, returns to PDT as a part-time administrative assistant. She has a degree in studio art from the University of Maine and a degree in administrative office management from Southern Maine Community College.

L/A Arts has hired Louise Rosen as the agency’s new consulting director.
Rosen brings more than 25 years of experience in independent media and arts, and has extensive experience in business affairs, fundraising, programming, marketing and operations. She previously served as executive and artistic director of the Maine Jewish Film Festival for four seasons.

Rachael Powers joined the staff at Hobbs Funeral Homes as a full-time apprentice.
Powers completed her associate of applied sciences in the funeral service program at Mount Ida College in Massachusetts and graduated in 2015.
At Hobbs, Powers will work to complete her apprenticeship and prepare for state and federal certification board examinations. She lives in South Portland.

Maine Audubon has hired L.L. Bean executive Andrew Beahm as deputy director.
Most recently, Beahm has served as L.L. Bean’s vice president of business transformation. He has served in various executive roles at L.L. Bean for the past three decades.
Beahm, of Falmouth, is a former Maine Audubon board member and chair.

NEW HIRES
Donna Ewert joined Bar Harbor Bank & Trust as vice president and trust officer.
Ewert, of Brunswick, spent the past eight years as a wealth adviser at Robinson Smith Wealth Advisors in Portland.

David Coffman, D.O., has joined Mount Desert Island Hospital.
He has more than 20 years of experience in trauma surgery/traumatology, general surgery and surgical critical care medicine.

David Brackett has joined Keller Williams Realty, The Don L’Heureux Team.
Brackett brings experience in southern Maine’s waterfront communities, including the Lakes Region and Peaks Island. He also has knowledge in new construction.

Community Credit Union has hired Tristina Baril as a member representative.
Baril will assist members with daily transactions, primarily from the Lewiston branch.

Norton Financial Services has hired Jamie Dumond as an executive assistant.
Previously, Dumond worked for Eastdil Secured in California as executive assistant to the managing director. She lives in Westbrook.

BH2M in Gorham has hired Austin Fagan as a staff engineer.
Fagan is a 2015 graduate of the University of Maine, with a degree in civil engineering.

Flyte New Media in Portland has hired three new staff members.
Amanda O’Brien has joined as director of business development. She brings a decade of web marketing experience to the firm.
John Paglio joined as a digital marketing specialist.
Chris McClay joined as a business manager. She brings two decades of business management experience.

On Target Utility Services recently hired nine graduates of Kennebec Valley Community College’s Electrical Lineworker Technology Program.
Josiah Audet, Samuel Benson, Joshua Craig, Kaleb Forsman, Shawn Gray, Edwin Greenlaw III, Jeffrey Merrill III and Dalton Skidgel were hired as line worker apprentices. Dustin Fisher was hired as a locate technician.

Randall B. Hobbs has joined Hobbs Funeral Home as a licensed funeral director.
Hobbs, of South Portland, is the grandson of funeral home founders, Frank Hobbs Sr. and Elizabeth Hobbs. He recently passed his Maine state boards and the national certification examinations required to become a funeral director. He also served as an apprentice at the funeral home.

Brad Robinson has joined HDR as cross sector director for the firm’s project controls practice.
Robinson brings 34 years of experience in project management and project controls, including global projects. He spent the past 24 years working with Parsons Brinckerhoff.

BCE has hired Paulette Witherall to handle all administrative duties.
Witherall was previously with Cole Haan, where she served as a receptionist and coordinator providing administrative support.
She brings over 25 years of experience in office and business management, human resources.

CIEE, the Council on International Educational Exchange, has hired Brent Bruggeman as chief information officer.
Bruggeman spent most of his career consulting for Fortune 100 and 500 organizations, most recently serving as a director with Deloitte Consulting LLP in Cincinnati.

NEW HIRES
Portland Trails hired Jennifer Goldman as its new advancement manager.
She brings more than 20 years of development and nonprofit experience to Portland Trails, previously serving as director of development and external relations for the Restorative Justice Institute of Maine.

Brad Bosse was named director of sales for Embassy Suites Portland.
He directs areas of the hotel, including guest services, sales and marketing efforts and hotel administration.

Tyler Kidder joined Efficiency Maine as a communications manager.
Kidder most recently served as the assistant director for sustainable programs at the University of Southern Maine.

Cathy Liston was appointed vice president claims, group and voluntary insurance at Sun Life Financial.
Most recently, she was vice president of group disability and life claims at Prudential Financial.

CBRE | The Boulos Co. has hired Cole Smith as an associate.
Smith, of Scarborough, assists in the brokerage duties for the company in greater Portland.
He currently serves in the Army Reserves as a military police officer.

PROMOTIONS
Emerald Hospitality Associates has promoted Josh Cushing to regional manager.
He has been the general manager of the Hilton Garden Inn in Freeport.
Cushing will oversee the operations of hotels in Maine, Massachusetts, Ohio and Michigan.

The Maine Development Foundation appointed Anne Ball as interim program director for its Maine Downtown Center.
She has served as a consultant for the center since 2012, and has been heavily involved in Healthy Maine Streets Program, Grants to Green, and Making Headway in Your Community.

Peter Eglinton has been promoted as deputy director of Efficiency Maine.
He joined the company in 2014 as the director of programs and operations after serving as the chief operations officer at Portland public schools.

Greg Leclair has been promoted to controller at Efficiency Maine.
He joined Efficiency Maine in 2010 as a senior accountant and served as business manager from 2012 to 2015. He previously worked in accounting and financial management at KempGoldberg.

Brian Cliffe was named president and general manager of WCSH-6 in Portland.
Cliffe, who was director of sales for WCSH-6, will also oversee WLBZ-2 in Bangor. He replaces Steve Carter, who recently was named president and general manager of KUSA in Denver, Colorado.
Cliffe had been director of sales at WCSH and WLBZ since 2009. He joined the station as an account executive in 1992. He became regional sales manager in 2007 and sales manager in 2008.

Community Credit Union appointed Jennifer Hogan to president and CEO.
She previously worked for Community Credit Union for four years as executive vice president and five years as marketing director.

NEW HIRES
Chalmers Financial Services, part of the Chalmers Insurance Group, has hired Dean DeMario as director of business development for group benefits.
DeMario has 30 years of insurance industry experience.

The MEMIC Group has hired Natalie Campaneria and Debra Willard Webb as safety management consultants.
Campaneria is currently enrolled in the masters of public health program at the University of New England.
Webb brings more than 20 years of health care experience with 10 years as a certified occupational health nurse-specialist with a focus on safety.

AWARDS and RECOGNITIONS
Amy Alward, an exclusive Allstate agency owner, was recognized as Allstate’s 2016 Best in Company for agencies her size.
The award recognizes her success in leading a local business and serving the needs of customers and the community.

Gillian Tuck, an account manager in the employee benefits group of Clark Insurance, has earned the designation Accredited Customer Service Representative for Life & Health.
Tuck, of Gorham, joined Clark Insurance in 2011.

Pamela Cantlin, of Portland, earned the designation Management Liability Insurance Specialist.
Cantlin is a senior account manager in the business insurance department of Clark Insurance. She joined the agency in 2014.

Matt Vaillancourt, of Old Port Insurance, joins the local business in South Portland’s Knightville neighborhood.

Vaillancourt has been a Maine independent insurance agent since 1998.

Holly Shields, a personal insurance account executive at L.S. Robinson Co. insurance, recently achieved the designation of Accredited Customer Service Representative in Personal Lines from the Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America.

NEW HIRES
Maine Medical Partners, a department of Maine Medical Center, announced that five physicians have joined its practice.
Jennifer Monti, M.D., joined MaineHealth Cardiology’s Scarborough office. She completed her internal medicine residency at Johns Hopkins University, followed by a cardiology fellowship at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.

The following physicians recently joined MMP’s – Hospital Medicine:

Emily Zarookian, M.D., completed her residency at Maine Medical Center, where she served as chief resident of internal medicine.

Timothy Botler, M.D., received his medical degree from Medical College of Wisconsin and completed his residency at Rush Medical Center.

Matthew Buttarazzi, M.D., completed his residency at MMC. He received his medical degree from Tufts University School of Medicine as part of the Maine Track Program.

John Walker, D.O., received his medical degree from the University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine. He completed his residency at MMC.

Day One in South Portland, a substance abuse treatment program, recently hired Sharon Martel as an accountant.
Martel brings more than 20 years of accounting experience in the nonprofit and legal services field.

Greater Portland Health hired Jennifer Rogers, a nurse practitioner, to provide care for patients living with HIV and other infectious diseases.
Rogers brings more than 16 years of clinical experience. For the last 11 years, she has worked at the virology treatment center at Maine Medical Center treating patients with HIV and chronic viral hepatitis.

Angela Legassey, a nurse practitioner, has joined the care provider team at Central Maine Obstetrics and Gynecology in Lewiston.
Legassey most recently worked as a registered nurse in mother-baby care at Maine Medical Center in Portland, a position she held since 2007. Previously, Legassey worked as a registered nurse in the maternity unit at Hartford Hospital in Hartford, Connecticut.

Sacopee Valley Health Center hired Lynn Kearney as executive director.
Kearney has 12 years of experience in nonprofit health care, including her work as operations manager for Cape Cod Healthcare. For the past five years, she has worked for Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital as executive director of Jordan Physician Associates in Plymouth, Massachusetts.

Aysha Sheikh joined the Maine Cancer Foundation as its new program officer.
She will work closely with the MCF leadership to develop its strategic plan, as well as oversee grant funding requests and awards. She previously worked for MaineHealth.

PROMOTIONS
Waltz Long Term Care Pharmacy in Brunswick promoted two people on its staff.
Courtney Doherty Oland was named president. She joined the pharmacy over 10 years ago.

Amy Kelder Enos was named director of pharmacy operations. She joined the pharmacy in 2007 and became a certified geriatric pharmacist in 2012.

St. Mary’s Regional Medical Center announced the promotion of six nurses on the professional development pathway.
The nurses promoted to Level III include Kendra Bailey, case management; Sonja Theriault, clinical documentation improvement; Anita Rousseau, RN, A2; and Katie Bishop, RN, who works in the emergency department.
The nurses promoted to level IV are: Tammy Jutras, RN, clinical documentation improvement; and Barbara Chute, BSN, RN, perianethesia.

AWARDS and RECOGNITIONS
U.S. News & World Report again named Maine Medical Center a Best Regional Hospital.
MMC is one of only 63 out of more than 4,500 hospitals in the nation – and the only one in Maine – to be rated high performing across the board in nine procedures and conditions.

David Frum, president of Bridgton Hospital and Rumford Hospital, was named one of the nation’s “Top 50 Critical Access Hospital CEOs to Know.”
Frum has more than 25 years of experience, including six years in his current role as president of Bridgton Hospital and Rumford Hospital.

BOARD APPOINTMENTS
The American Red Cross of Maine named the following people to serve on its southern Maine chapter board of directors.
The newest members include David Hurst, M.D., a retired physician from Gorham; Peter Liberatore, a marketing executive from Kennebunk; and Jerome J. Gamache, an attorney from Cumberland Foreside.

Dr. David Hurst  

Peter Liberatore

Jerome Gamache

BOARD APPOINTMENTS
The Opportunity Alliance announced its board of directors for the fiscal year that began on July 1:
Thomas Saturley of Tranzon Auction Properties was named chair, Marc Doyon of UNUM was named secretary and Dan Hunter of Gorham Savings Bank was named treasurer.
Also named to the board are: Dr. Rebecca Bloch of Maine Medical Center; Abusana Micky Bondo, Colette Twigg-Rowse, Barbara Schneider and Anita Chandler, community volunteers; Sarah Coupe of the Grace House for Women; Jane Harmon of Key Bank National Association; Jeanne Hulit of Northeast Bank; Chris Jerome of UNUM; Angus S. King III of First Wind; Tom Smith of Summit Energy Solutions; Tim Soley of East Brown Cow Management; Cynthia Tayman-Veroneau of Portside Real Estate Group; Jim Vachon of WEX and Marie-Christine Simbizi and Ann Courtney. Laura Marceau will serve as policy council liaison.

Levey Day School in Portland welcomed five people to its board of trustees:
Kathryn Woodson Barr, head of Maine Girls Academy; Benjamin Bornstein, an attorney in Portland; Tom Addicks, a retired educator; Suzanne Rosenberg, former president of two independent school boards and Larissa Crockett, who has a master’s degree in public administration and economics.

Todd Cesca was recently elected to the board of directors of the United Way of York County.
Cesca, of Kennebunk, is a partner in Charter Oak Capital Management in Portland.

Bruce Wagner, chief executive officer of the Finance Authority of Maine, was elected to the board of directors of the National Council of Higher Education Resources. Wagner has served as chief executive officer of FAME since 2014.

Pine Tree Society recently named Martin Bailey, Ian McCarthy, Matthew Prunier and Carol Brunjes Weaver to its board of directors.
Bailey is a personal financial representative at Allstate in Lewiston.
McCarthy, of Key Bank, is the area retail leader for central western Maine.
Prunier is a CPA with Baker Newman Noyes in Portland. Weaver is a math teacher at Milford High School in New Hampshire.

Ned Cloonan joined to the board of trustees at the MDI Biological Laboratory.
Cloonan, a summer resident of Castine, is the principal of Ned Cloonan Associates.

The Kids First Center named Michelle Cianchette to its board of directors.
Cianchette, of Cumberland, worked nearly 10 years in finance before joining L.L.Bean.

Avesta Housing announced recent board appointments.
Peter Bass is a developer and owner of Random Orbit Inc. in Portland; Chomba Kaluba is a motivational speaker and serves on the faculty at Southern Maine Community College and Lori Parham is the state director of AARP Maine.

Tedford Housing recently elected members and officers to its board of directors.
Judy Montgomery, associate librarian of the Bowdoin College Library, returned to the board after a one-year hiatus.
Seven members of the board renewed their terms: Andree Appel, Sally Carignan, John Carson, Marcy McGuire, Dot Ollier, Chris Powell and Nonny Soifer.

The following people were elected officers: John Carson, pastor of the Elijah Kellog Church, was elected president of the board; Andree Appel, clinical director of the Oasis Health Network, was elected vice president; Nonny Soifer, a lawyer in private practice, was re-elected secretary; Sarah Piper, commercial lender at Bath Savings Institution, was re-elected to treasurer and Claudia Staberg, consultant and college adviser, was re-elected as an at-large representative.

Preble Street expanded its board of directors and announced and a new board president.
New to the board are Stephen Pryor, Jennifer Wilson and John Roberts.
Pryor is the complex director at RBC Wealth Management in Portland.
Wilson is the corporate merchant for the women’s apparel team at L.L. Bean as well as the controller for the Forest Avenue Veterinary Hospital in Portland. She is also vice chairman for the L.L. Bean board.
Roberts is the retired president and chief executive officer of Assurant Employee Benefits. He served in that role from 2007 to 2015.

Herb Janick, a partner at Sidley Austin LLP in Portland, became Preble Street’s board president.

Bath Housing Development Corp. announced that Michelle Renaud Rines has joined its board of directors.
New officers are Mary Terry of Woolwich who was named president and Catherine Powers of West Bath who was elected vice-president.
Rines, of Woolwich, has worked at Maine Medical Center, Androscoggin Home Health Services and MidCoast Hospital with its geriatric mental health resource program.

NEW HIRES
Josephine Iannelli was named executive vice president, chief financial officer and treasurer of Bar Harbor Bankshares and Bar Harbor Bank & Trust and its subsidiary Bar Harbor Trust Services, effective Oct. 24.
Iannelli most recently served as senior executive vice president, chief financial officer and treasurer of Berkshire Hills Bancorp in Pittsfield, Massachusetts.

Michelle Curtis joined First National Bank as assistant vice president, business relationship officer in the Camden office.
Curtis previously worked for Bank of America as a specialty account review analyst and senior credit analyst. She had been with them for 20 years.

SIS Bank has hired Cassandra Mosher as assistant vice president and market manager for its Springvale and south Sanford branches. Mosher, of Wells, brings more than nine years of experience in working with community banks in York County.

PROMOTIONS
CPort Credit Union recently promoted Benjamin Guerette to training manager.
Guerette began his cPort career in 2014 as training coordinator and is a University of New Hampshire graduate.

Christian Van Dyck was promoted to vice president of compliance and audit.
Van Dyck was previously with the Maine Bureau of Financial Institutions. He received his law degree from Dalhousie Law School in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Bar Harbor Bank & Trust promoted Richard Maltz to executive vice president, chief operating officer and chief risk officer. Maltz, of Hampden, has more than 30 years of banking experience. He joined the bank in 2014.

AWARDS
Camden National Bank recently recognized two employees for exemplary service.
Kathleen Dodge was recognized as Employee of the Year and Josh Nash as Officer of the Year.

BOARD APPOINTMENTS
Tracy Harding, a principal at BerryDunn, was appointed to the Auditing Standards Board.
Harding, a principal for more than 30 years, is director of quality assurance and the Bangor office coordinator for the firm’s financial services group.

NEW HIRES
Sarah Stebbins and Ben Williamson joined Down East magazine.
Stebbins, of Portland, was recently hired as a special projects editor for the magazine. She spent the past eight years working as a freelance writer. Her work has appeared in numerous publications including Every Day With Rachael Ray, Family Circle, Ladies’ Home Journal and O: The Oprah Magazine.

Williamson was hired as photography director. Williamson has been photographing for the magazine for the last four years.

Adam Wiles-Rosell has joined Scott Simons Architects as an architectural designer.
He graduated from Norwich University in Vermont in May 2016 with a master’s degree in architecture. He lives in Portland.

The Rowley Agency Inc. has hired Kirk Mullen as a commercial insurance account executive.
For the past four years, Mullen worked as a project manager for a commercial construction management firm in Portland. He lives in Portland.

SymQuest hired David Kerkhoff as a regional sales manager.
Before joining SymQuest, Kerkhoff was a branch manager and strategic development director for Konica Minolta Business Solutions U.S.A. Inc.

Jenna Lucas joined Volk Packaging Corp.’s design group as a graphic designer.
Lucas, of Saco, has degrees in graphic design and multimedia communication from the Maine College of Art.

Maine Media Collective has hired Andrea King as chief operating officer and associate publisher.
Before joining MMC, King founded Aristelle, a retailer of fine lingerie.

Hannah Clark recently joined Down East Enterprise Inc. as a circulation assistant and production representative.
Before joining Down East, she was filling customer service and sales roles at Camden Falls Gallery and Linda Bean’s Maine Wyeth Gallery.

Susan MacArthur joined Strategic Talent Management as vice president.
MacArthur was previously a business and event management consultant for many years. She also served as the first executive director for the Blue Hill Peninsula Chamber of Commerce.

Nicholas Crosman joined Macpage LLC as a senior tax associate.
Crosman has practiced in public accounting since July 2011. He previously worked at Berry Dunn as a tax specialist and a senior tax specialist.

CES Inc. has hired David Chapman as project geologist in its Lewiston office.
Chapman previously worked as a project geoscientist in New Hampshire.

Melissa Vigue joined Diversified Communications as a customer service representative.
Vigue previously worked at gymNation in Kennebunk.

NEW HIRES/PROMOTIONS
Landry/French Construction Co. announced five promotions.
Mason Rowell was promoted to director of pre-construction services. Rowell has 15 years of construction experience. Most recently, he served as senior project manager at Landry/French.

Geoff Mitchell was promoted to director of project management. He was previously a senior project manager. Mitchell has 15 years of experience, including several years with national contractors.

Scott Cristina and Brian Jacobs, both formerly project superintendents, were promoted to senior superintendents.
Cristina has nearly 30 years of experience with an associate degree in building construction technology.

Jacobs has nearly 15 years of experience and holds a degree in business management from Assumption College.

Ryan Landry was promoted to project manager. He previously served as assistant project manager.

Wright-Ryan Construction, Inc. announced the following hires and promotions.
Sebastien Leclerc joined the firm as an integrated project manager/foreman in the select projects group. Prior to coming to Wright-Ryan, Leclerc worked as an estimator and field supervisor.

Tyler Durkee joined the firm as a commercial project manager. Prior to coming to Wright-Ryan, he worked as a project manager for two local construction companies.

Erick Aitken joined Wright-Ryan as a commercial superintendent. He previously worked as a superintendent for several construction companies in Maine and Connecticut.

Michael Mooney was promoted to field operations project manager and estimator. He was previously a member of Wright-Ryan’s Select Projects team. He joined the firm as a select projects integrated project manager/foreman.

NEW HIRES
BerryDunn recently announced the following new hires:
Heather Booth, Ian Martell, Jennifer Morris, Paige Nadeau and Chelsea Stanley were hired as staff accountants.
Matthew Dube joined as a staff auditor and Bethany Bielicki as a campus recruiter.
The firm’s government consulting group hired Sarah Abbott, Erica Kosnow, Tam Ly and Megan O’Brien as consultants.
Matthew Bria, Eddy Cheng, Pam Coleman and Emily McCoy joined as senior consultants. Susan Chugha, Nicole Andrews and Rachel Tetelman joined as paraprofessionals.
Nicholas Favreau was hired as a consultant.
Patrick Doherty and Nathan Palmer were hired as tax specialists, and Kate Mango joined as a staff accountant.

Bernstein Shur has hired Amber Attalla, Zachary Brandwein, Daniel Keenan, Rachael Becker McEntee and James Monteleone in the firm’s Portland office.
Attalla, of Portland, joined the firm’s labor and employment practice group. Attalla was previously a legal intern for the Immigrant Legal Advocacy Project in Portland.
Brandwein, of Sidney, joined its energy and municipal and governmental services practice groups. He previously served as an intern to Judge Paul Cleary of the U.S. District Court, Northern District of Oklahoma.
Keenan joined its business restructuring and insolvency practice group. He was recently a student attorney in the University of Maine School of Law Cumberland Legal Aid Clinic’s Refugee and Human Rights Clinic. Most recently, he was a judicial extern for Judge Kermit Lipez of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.
McEntee, of Cumberland, joined the firm’s energy practice group. In law school, she also interned with Lipez, as well as the ACLU of Maine.
Monteleone, of Portland, joined the firm’s litigation practice group. Prior to joining Bernstein Shur, he served as a law clerk at Keleher & McCleod P.A.

Esther Yoo joined the Berman and Simmons law firm, where she will represent plaintiffs in personal injury cases.
Yoo, of Falmouth, most recently worked as an associate attorney at Pierce Atwood LLP in Portland. Yoo is an adjunct professor at the University of Maine School of Law.

PROMOTION
Ben Ford, an attorney at Verrill Dana, was recently promoted to counsel at the firm.

NEW HIRES

Veronica Beaudoin, Jodi Connors and Heather Cyr joined the team at Rinck, a marketing, promotions and public relations agency in Auburn.
Beaudoin, of Gray, previously worked at NL Partners and VIP Tires & Service.

Connors, of Kennebunkport, brings more than 15 years of experience as an agency account leader and an expert in brand building and integrated marketing.
Most recently, she was marketing director at Village Candle Inc.

Cyr, of Lewiston, brings eight years of account experience. She previously worked at HIMSS Media as the client services manager and at Idexx Laboratories as a marketing communications account executive II.

The Jackson Laboratory announced that Gregory Leet has joined the nonprofit biomedical research organization as vice president for advancement.
Leet brings more than 25 years of advancement experience. Most recently, he served as vice chancellor for university advancement at the University of California, Irvine.

The Council on International Educational Exchange has hired Peter Morales as chief information officer.
Morales oversees CIEE’s information technology organization. He previously worked at New York University and the New York and American Stock Exchanges.

Maine Huts & Trails, has hired Carolann Ouellette as executive director.
Ouellette joins Maine Huts & Trails from her most recent role as director of the Maine Office of Tourism, a position she has held since 2011.

Jeremy Young joined Dead River Co. as vice president of corporate development.
Young previously worked at Oldcastle, a building materials company in Salt Lake City.

Malone Commercial Brokers has hired Diane Churchill as the office administrator.
Prior to joining Malone, Churchill was the marketing and office manager at Paragon Commercial Real Estate. She brings more than 10 years of experience in commercial and residential brokerage.

PROMOTIONS
Gwendolyne Tuttle was promoted to program director of support and recovery services at Catholic Charities’ Behavioral Health Network.
An active social worker for the past eight years, Tuttle most recently served as a clinical team lead for the agency’s behavioral health home services.

NEW HIRES
Verrill Dana recently hired Cecilie MacIntyre to the firm’s health care group as counsel in its Portland office.
MacIntyre most recently served as an assistant chief counsel at the California Department of Managed Health Care.

AWARDS and RECOGNITIONS
Verrill Dana was recently honored with the Maine Volunteer Lawyers Project Pro Bono Award for donating the most hours on VLP cases of any law firm in Maine.

More than 35 attorneys at Verrill Dana assisted with the project this year. They include: Tawny Alvarez, Charles Bacall, Samuel Baldwin, Heidi Bean, Phillip Bixby, Lisa Boehm, Robert Brooks, Susan Bryant, Anthony Calcagni, Braden Clement, Seth Coburn, Jonathan Dunitz, Anya Endsley, Benjamin Ford, Mark Googins, Katie Gray, Kathleen Gleason Healy, Rita Heimes, Nathaniel Hull, Michael Kebede, Mark Kenny, Wayne Keown, Brett Leland, Christopher Lockman, Brian Marshall, Christopher Monroe, Marie Mueller, Misti Munster, Taylor Neff, Stephen Segal, Timothy Shannon, William Stiles, Spencer Thibodeau, Mathew Todaro, John Van Lonkhuyzen, Rachel Wertheimer, Chantal Wilson and Karen Frink Wolf.

Five Verrill Dana attorneys were recognized for their skill as litigators in Benchmark Litigation’s 2017 edition.

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The attorneys recognized were: Scott Anderson, Karen Frink Wolf, Martha Gaythwaite, A. Robert Ruesch, Timothy Shannon and Rachel Wertheimer.
Frink Wolf and Gaythwaite were named to the list of “Top 250 Women in Litigation.”

Benchmark Litigation also ranked Verrill Dana as a “Highly

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Recommended Firm” in Maine, the highest firm ranking possible.

Verrill Dana announced that 14 of its attorneys were recognized at the 2016 Maine Supreme Judicial Court Katahdin Council Recognition event at the Cumberland County Courthouse for completing 50 or more hours of pro bono service in the previous year.

AWARDS and RECOGNITIONS

Dawna Hannan, vice president of human resources and regulatory affairs at Oxford Networks, was inducted in the Telephone Association of New England’s Hall of Fame.

Hannan has been in the telecommunications industry for 35 years. She joined Oxford Networks in 1994 and currently serves on the board of directors for the Telecommunications Association of Maine.

Justin Grimes, general manager of two Kennebunkport Resort Collection properties, Hidden Pond and The Tides Beach Club, was recognized by Hotel Management in its 2016 class of “Thirty under 30.

Both properties were recognized in the top 10 “Top Resorts in New England” in the 2016 Condé Nast Traveler Readers’ Choice Awards.

Under Grimes’ management, Hidden Pond and the Tides Beach Club have been awarded several industry accolades.

Michael Cardello, a pilot for American Airlines, was recently honored with more than 200 employees celebrating at least 45 years of service and 35 or more years as pilots because of the mandatory retirement age.

Cardello, of Cumberland Foreside, is retiring with 35 years of service to American Airlines.

Earle W. Noyes & Sons Moving Specialists in Portland, an agent of United Van Lines, was recognized for its exceptional achievement.

The company received the following recognitions from United Van Lines: The President’s Club Award at the $2 million level; The Performance Excellence Award; and the Customer Choice Award, which was presented to United agents achieving exceptional service scores on the basis of post-move surveys completed by customers.

DMM Inc. announced it has achieved the G7 Master Qualification awarded by Idealliance, a not-for-profit industry group dedicated to guiding print production best practices, specifications and standards worldwide.

DMM specializes in document output both for transactional print and direct mail execution.

Harriman, a design and engineering firm with offices in Maine, New Hampshire and Massachusetts, received six academic design awards for four Maine projects from American School and University and Learning by Design.

The firm was recognized for its academic design of projects at Colby College, the University of Southern Maine, Maine Academy of Natural Sciences at Good Will-Hinckley and Wentworth Intermediate School.

The Portland Water District was recently awarded the certificate of achievement for excellence in financial reporting by the Government Finance Officers Association. The certificate is the highest form of recognition for governmental accounting and financial reporting.

NEW HIRES

Sarah Ruef-Lindquist of Camden has joined the financial services division of Allen Insurance and Financial.
Ruef-Lindquist spent more than four years as the CEO of the Maine Women’s Fund. She also worked with the Maine Community Foundation, Union Trust, Colby College, Pen Bay Healthcare Foundation and Planning for Good, a consulting firm she founded.

Idexx Laboratories has hired Pat Venters as vice president and chief marketing officer.
Venters brings 25 years of experience in health care marketing, most recently at GE.

Freeport Community Services has hired Paula Paladino as its new executive director.
Paladino comes to FCS from MaineHousing as manager of homeless initiatives and special projects coordinator. Her career spans 25-plus years of government and nonprofit experience in social programs.

Zoë Alexis Scott was hired as director of development at the Animal Refuge League of Greater Portland.
Scott spent the last three years as managing director of Seattle Public Theater in Washington, where she raised the financial and artistic profile of the organization.

Aroostook Aspirations Initiative recently hired Nicole Duplessis as development and communications assistant.
Most recently, Duplessis worked as a reporter at WAGM-TV, where she was an intern prior to her senior year of college. She was also a freelance writer for The Star Herald and The Aroostook Republican during part of her college career.

Carolyn Krahn was hired as an account executive with Artforms in Brunswick.
Krahn, of Freeport, brings experience including apparel and advertising specialty sales at both Maine Coast Marketing and Winter People. She was most recently with the Greater Freeport Chamber of Commerce.

Matthew Coy joined MEMIC as a senior director of information technology. Prior to MEMIC, Coy worked as director of application development for Aetna.

Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage in New England has hired Angie Adrien as a sales associate.
Adrien will provide residential real estate services in Kennebunk as well as the surrounding communities of York County and Greater Portland.

NEW HIRES
SaviLinx LLC has hired Andrea Georgian as a community engagement manager. Georgian joins SaviLinx from Maine Pines Racquet & Fitness Club, where she spearheaded the organization’s growth through various marketing endeavors.

Pine Tree Society recently hired Casse Flewelling as a direct support provider for community services in Scarborough. Flewelling has over 25 years of experience in the field.

PROMOTIONS
York County Community College promoted Erin Haye to director of development and special assistant to the president. Most recently, Haye served as executive assistant to two interim presidents and Barbara Finkelstein, the current president of YCCC.

Habitat for Humanity of Greater Portland promoted Andrew Smith to manager of the ReStore. Smith, of Portland, worked in various positions in the ReStore since 2006.

The MEMIC Group has promoted Eileen Moran Fongemie to vice president of finance and assistant treasurer. Fongemie joined MEMIC in 2007 as a senior accountant. Most recently, she served as director of finance. Before joining MEMIC, she was a senior financial analyst for MaineGeneral Health.

BOARD APPOINTMENTS
The United Way of Eastern Maine announced four new board members: John Canders, Peter Dawes, Pat Kimball and Sno Barry.

Canders recently joined Bangor Savings Bank. He works as both a lawyer and a banker.

Dawes currently serves as the vice president, strategy, performance and planning for Emera Maine.

Kimball, of Hermon, recently retired from her position of 15 years as the executive director for Wellspring, a substance abuse and mental health treatment center in Bangor.

Barry, of Ellsworth, is a principal at BerryDunn, a CPA and consulting firm.

Maine State Music Theatre elected three new members to its board of trustees. Marie Barbieri, Reginald Elwell, and Melissa Knutson – all from Brunswick – joined the 25-member board for two-year terms.

Barbieri is a former professor, who taught at the University of Pennsylvania, Williams College and Bowdoin College. Elwell spent 28 years in the forest products industry in central and eastern Maine. Knutson is the vice president and commercial loan officer at the Brunswick branch of Androscoggin Bank.

GENERAL
Records Management Center and ShredSafe LLC announced the acquisition of Shredding On Site, a Waterville-based shredding company.

The combined teams are integrating to operate secure on-site document and e-media destruction services. All of the staff, equipment and service scheduling will remain the same.

The name Shredding On Site is also being retained, and will be used as the name for the on-site document destruction services arm of the business.

NEW HIRES
Michael Smith was promoted to a partner at Preti Flaherty.
Smith practices in the firm’s litigation and health law groups and is based in the Portland office. He previously practiced as an associate.

F. Jay Meyer recently joined Troubh Heisler, PA, a Portland-area law firm.
Meyer brings over 27 years of experience in business and financial services law, real estate, admiralty and maritime law. He previously served as senior counsel for TD Bank, N.A.

Verrill Dana welcomes attorneys Samuel Baldwin, Christopher Monroe and Michael Kebede as associates in the firm’s Portland office.
Baldwin, a former reporter and editor at several midcoast newspapers, received his law degree from the University of Maine School of Law. Most recently, he served as a law clerk for Maine Supreme Judicial Court Justice Donald Alexander.

Kebede received his law degree cum laude from Boston College Law School, where he was articles editor of the Environmental Affairs Law Review. Most recently, he was a clerk for Maine Supreme Judicial Court Chief Justice Leigh Saufley.

Monroe received his law degree from the University of Maine School of Law. There, he authored the “prize brief” in a classwide appellate competition and competed at the national level in an Admiralty Law Moot Court competition.

PROMOTIONS
Bernstein Shur named Michael Bosse as co-chair of the firm’s litigation practice group.
Bosse, of Scarborough, has been a litigator for 20 years. He joined Bernstein Shur 15 years ago.

Michael Anderson, Sam Blatchley, Kris Eimicke, Jana Magnuson, Nolan Reichl and Mark Rosen were named partners at Pierce Atwood LLP.
Anderson, based in the firm’s Portland office, works on general corporate, transactional, securities law, commercial finance and antitrust cases.

Blatchley represents clients in the marine industry, including vessel owners and operators, charterers, construction and dredging firms and marina operators. He works in the firm’s Boston, Massachusetts, and Providence, Rhode Island offices.

Eimicke concentrates his practice on tax issues, with an emphasis on state and federal new markets tax credit programs, renewable energy tax credits, and historic rehabilitation tax credits. He is based in the Portland office.

Magnuson, based in Portland, works with clients to create estate plans and provides guidance on the transfer of assets, including real estate, into trust and entity ownership.

Reichl has represented clients in numerous complex commercial actions, including Central Maine Power, Nestlé Waters and Eli Lilly & Company. He is based in the Portland office.

Rosen, who works in the Portsmouth, New Hampshire, office, represents companies and financial services firms in class action litigation, securities litigation, and complex and high-stakes business litigation cases.

AWARDS and RECOGNITIONS
Seven Drummond Woodsum attorneys were named Best Lawyers in America 2017 Lawyer of the Year.
The attorneys honored are: Jerrol Crouter for bet-the-company litigation; George Dilworth for criminal defense – white collar; John Kaminski for tax law; William Plouffe for land use and zoning law; David Sherman Jr. for litigation – real estate; Bruce Smith for education law; and Richard Spencer for public finance law.

Jonathan Dunitz, an attorney at Verrill Dana, was named an American Bar Foundation Fellow. Dunitz has more than 20 years of experience, focusing his law practice on insurance coverage and litigation, commercial litigation, complex family law, and appeals.

GENERAL
Elizabeth Scheffee, of Shaheen and Gordon, P.A., recently served on the Maine Supreme Judicial Court’s Advisory Commission for the Uniform Bar Exam. Scheffee, a divorce and family law attorney, was appointed by the Maine Bar Association to serve on the commission.