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Institute for Civic Leadership names four to board of directors

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
August 30, 2010

Samantha DePoy-Warren, ICL Marketing and Communications Manager
207-773-3254 (ext 107)/swarren@civicleadership.org

Institute for Civic Leadership names four to board of directors
-Joining the board are Stephen Eddy, Vice President and Fiduciary Consultant at Investment Management and Consulting Group; Barbara Nash, Vice President of Corporate Research at Unum; Linda Mae Ruterbories, Director of the Orthopaedic Surgery Center at Orthopaedic Associates; and Michael Stillings, Principal at Baker Newman Noyes~

PORTLAND – The Institute for Civic Leadership has elected four new members to its board of directors for the 2010-2011 year.

Joining the board will be Stephen Eddy, of Scarborough; Barbara Nash, of Yarmouth; Linda Mae Ruterbories, of South Portland; and Michael Stillings, of Cumberland.

A Mainer since he graduated from Bates College in 1984, Eddy is a Vice President and Fiduciary Consultant for the Portland-based Investment Management Consulting Group. Active in his community, in addition to serving as a coach for the Scarborough High School Girls Tennis Team and as an assistant coach for both the men’s and women’s tennis teams at the University of Southern Maine, Eddy serves as Treasurer for the Day One Board of Directors, Treasurer for the Maine Employee Benefits Council Board of Directors, and is a member of the Maine Cancer Foundation Board.

Nash, a graduate of the University of Vermont where she received both her BA in Psychology and her MS in Statistics, currently serves as Vice President of Corporate Research at Unum, where she has been employed since 1998. A lifelong researcher, she was formerly president of Market Decisions and has held positions at AT&T, Miller Brewing Company and the former advertising company Foote Cone & Belding. She also served on the board of the Portland Symphony Orchestra from 1998-2008.

Ruterbories, who earned her BSN from the University of Maine and her MS at Simmons College, is the Director of the Orthopaedic Surgery Center at Orthopaedic Associates where she also works as a Certified Nurse in the operating room. On behalf of OA, she opened the center in 1989, when it served 600 patients per year. Today, the surgery center works with 3,000 patients each year, and Ruterbories has been integral in that growth, including overseeing a renovation in 2004 that grew the facility to four operating room suites and the state’s first fully integrated digital operating room. In addition to speaking on behalf of patient safety and co-authoring journal articles, she traveled to Haiti recently with a team from OA to provide orthopaedic surgical support to earthquake victims.

A graduate of Pace University, Stillings is a CPA, Director of Tax Services and Principal at Baker Newman Noyes, which he joined in 1995 when the Portland-based account firm was founded. Outside the accounting arena, Stillings is a Navigator for the Gulf of Maine Research Institute, past Campaign Cabinet Division Chair for the United Way of Greater Portland, past treasurer for the Gulf of Maine Research Institute, a former board member of the Maine State Chamber and past president of the Shalom House board of directors.

In addition to the election of four new members, two existing board members were voted into leadership positions including Jamie Morin, Senior Vice-President of Client Service Operations for Wright Express, as board chair, and Pete Thaxter, an attorney at Curtis Thaxter, as vice chair.

Paul Delva, Vice-President of General Counsel at Fairchild Semiconductor Corporation, will stay as secretary, and Stillings will serve as treasurer.

“Their professional experience, passion for bettering their communities through service and clear commitment to leadership by example have all of us at ICL thrilled about the addition of these new board members to our organization,” said ICL Interim Executive Director, Suzanne Austin. “Especially as we launch our innovative new ICL Young Emerging Leaders Pilot Program and continue to move Maine forward through our signature ICL Leadership Intensive, Health Leadership Development program in partnership with the Daniel Hanley Center for Health Leadership and ICL’s Consulting Services, we know Steve, Barbara, Linda Mae and Mike will be invaluable contributors of their expertise and excitement to ICL and its mission.”

ABOUT THE INSTITUTE FOR CIVIC LEADERSHIP- The Institute for Civic Leadership (ICL) was founded in 1993 to build Maine’s civic capacity by training, supporting, engaging and convening a growing network of skilled leaders. In 2006, ICL merged with The Board Network, an organization founded in 1999 to build stronger nonprofit Boards of Directors in Maine. ICL brings innovative and inclusive models of leadership to Maine’s communities and organizations by providing a broad range of civic leadership offerings, as well as programs specific to nonprofit boards. At the Institute for Civic Leadership we are committed to opening doors, building new relationships, and inspiring leaders. We move Maine forward. For more information, contact 773-3254 (extension 100) or visit www.civicleadership.org.

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