Personnel

Former Fleet Bank-Maine Regional President Claude O’Donnell has rejoined the bank as a senior client adviser overseeing brokerage services and wealth management activities in Fleet’s Northern Maine region. O’Donnell retired in October 2001 after serving as regional bank president since 1996. Operating through the bank’s Private Clients Group in Bangor, O’Donnell will work with high net worth individuals to, among other things, create investment strategies, build investment portfolios, preserve assets and address diversification and tax issues.

Yellow Light Breen has joined Bangor Savings Bank as vice president-general counsel. Breen, who will be based in Bangor, recently was director of special projects and external affairs at the Maine Department of Education in Augusta. He previously served as assistant legal counsel for Gov. Angus King Jr. and as a law clerk for U.S. Court of Appeals 10th Circuit Judge Stephanie K. Seymour. A graduate of Nokomis Regional High School in Newport, he has a bachelor’s degree from Harvard University and law degree from Harvard Law School.

The Maine Democratic Party has appointed Aymie Walshe of Bangor as its executive director. She previously worked for three years as a volunteer and then as the visitor and volunteer services manager at the Maine Discovery Museum in Bangor. She also served as field director for Sean Faircloth’s congressional primary and field coordinator for former U.S. Rep. John Baldacci’s gubernatorial campaign. Former Executive Director Adam Thompson has accepted a position with Gov. Baldacci’s office of healthy policy and finance.