Board of Directors

Angus King was elected Governor of Maine as an independent in 1994 in his first run for public office and re-elected for a second term in 1998 in on of the largest margins in Maine’s history. As Governor, his focus included economic development and job creation, education, mental health services, corrections, land conservation and environmental protection, and improvements in service delivery by state government.

Accomplishments included a major rebuild of the state’s mental health and corrections systems, including both program and infrastructure; improvements in the state’s service capability, especially including on-line services; a substantial increase in the state's commitment to research and development; the largest increase of lands in conservation in the state’s history; and the nationally recognized program to provide a laptop computer to every seventh and eighth grade student in the state, regardless of location or family income, aimed at making Maine’s students the most computer-literate in the world.

Mr. King is currently a Distinguished Lecturer at Bowdoin College and a Visiting Fellow at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. He can be seen as a commentator on PBS-TV’s NOW with David Brancaccio.