Civics

• Past President, Board of Directors of the Richmond Area Health Center Advisory Board
  
  
• Past and Founding Board Member of Maine AllCare
  
  
• Past Board Member of Consumers for Affordable Health Care
  
  
• Chair and member of the Town of Richmond Board of Selectmen, 6/98-6/01 & 11/01-6/05
  
  
• Richmond Planning Board Member 1991-1998, co-chair 1995-1998
  
  
• Public member of the Sagadahoc County Budget Advisory Committee 2005-2008
  
  
• Successfully advocated for and drafted LD 1620, which, in amended form, was enacted April 1, 2010 as PL Chapter 588, An Act to Protect Health Care Consumers from Catastrophic Debt, Maine’s first-in-the-nation state law prohibiting aggregate benefit caps in health insurance plans
  
  
• With ultimate funding from the Land for Maine’s Future Board, worked with the Nature Conservancy in 2004 to preserve a 60+ acre parcel in Bowdoinham on behalf of elderly clients
  
  
• 2004 Clean Election Independent State Senate Candidate and won the Richmond vote
  
  
• 2014 Clean Election Green Independent State Senate Candidate and won the Richmond vote