Elaine Clark Named UMaine Associate Vice President
Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571
ORONO — Elaine L. Clark, Esq., of Cumberland, has joined the University of Maine as Associate Vice President for Administration and Finance.
Since 1998, Clark has served as director of the State of Maine Bureau of General Services, where she oversaw construction of facilities for the executive and judicial branches of government as well as public schools. Her scope of responsibility also included state purchases, risk management, leased space, capital asset planning and management, property management, the state’s central fleet and other services, including printing, postal, warehouse and surplus property.
“Elaine comes to us with tremendous experience, and she has earned the great respect of everyone she has worked with,” says Janet Waldron, UMaine’s vice president for administration and finance.
During her tenure, the bureau rebuilt the state’s correctional facilities, major office buildings, police barracks, its criminal justice academy and the Riverview Psychiatric Center. It also modernized many of the state’s fish hatcheries. Numerous historic preservation projects were undertaken under Clark’s direction, particularly the renovation of the historic Harlow Building at the state’s East Campus in Augusta, for which the bureau received a 2005 award from the Maine Historic Preservation Commission.
Clark also led several of the state’s efforts to promote energy conservation and use of alternative fuels. One example is Brewster Hall at the Governor Baxter School for the Deaf, constructed under the Bureau of General Service’s oversight, which received the first U.S. Green Building Council Silver Certification in Maine.
Upon her departure from state government on February 28, the Maine Legislature recognized Clark with an expression of sentiment honoring her for her accomplishments during her 12 years working in Augusta.
Prior to her appointment to General Services, Clark served as principal attorney for property law at the Maine Department of Transportation, and before that was engaged in private law practice, focusing on real estate and land use law.
Clark continues to participate on the Fort Popham planning committee, continues as a member of the Board of Directors of Friends of the Blaine House, continues to advocate for investment in the state’s parks and historic sites, and was recently appointed by Gov.John Baldacci to the Maine Governmental Facilities Authority Board.
She is a Mount Holyoke College graduate, with a law degree from Western New England College School of Law.