Law firm partner

BANGOR – Anne-Marie Storey has become a partner in the law firm, Rudman & Winchell, as a member of the employment and litigation sections. Storey is a frequent speaker to human resource professionals on employment-related topics and contributes articles to The Employers’ Quarterly and Maine Business & Employment Law.

Storey earned a bachelor’s degree from Middlebury College in 1989, then served as a U.S. Peace Corps volunteer in Thailand. She graduated cum laude from Vermont Law School in 1995, where she was notes editor of the Vermont Law Review. She is a member of the Maine State Bar Association continuing legal education committee, and of the John Waldo Ballou Inn of Court.

Professional engineer

BANGOR – Stephanie Laplant, an employee of WBRC Architects-Engineers, received Professional Engineer registration recently.

Laplant, a University of Maine graduate, has been with the firm for three years. Her responsibilities include electrical drafting and design, system selections, design and preparation of bid documents, specification writing, shop drawing review and construction administration.

Laplant worked for R.G. Vanderweil Engineers Inc. based in Boston, as an electrical designer-engineer intern. She is a member of the Downeast Section of Illuminating Engineering Society of North America.

Laplant’s projects include the lighting design of the constellation Ursa Major in the rotunda at the main entrance of Buchanan Alumni House at the University of Maine.

Bank vice president

BANGOR – Yellow Light Breen has joined Bangor Savings Bank as vice president and general counsel at the Bangor office. He served as director of special projects and external affairs at the Maine Department of Education, assistant legal counsel for Gov. Angus King Jr. and as the law clerk for Judge Stephanie K. Seymour, U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit.

A graduate of Nokomis Regional High School in Newport, Breen earned a bachelor’s degree from Harvard University and a law degree at Harvard Law School. He is a member of the board of the Maine Mentoring Partnership program and the Maine Coalition for Excellence in Education. He also serves on the policy board of the Promising Futures Program at the Sen. George J. Mitchell Research Institute.

Company vice president

BANGOR – Cianbro recently promoted Frank Susi of Bangor to vice president and general manager of the company’s northern New England region. Susi, a 26-year Cianbro veteran, leads more than 1,200 team members in the construction of power plants, bridges, hospitals, parking garages, and marine and heavy industrial projects, including oil rig construction on the Portland waterfront.

Since joining Cianbro in 1976, Susi worked his way up through the engineering and management ranks before taking on regional manager responsibilities last year for projects throughout New England.

Healthcare service award

BANGOR – John A. Woodcock Jr. received Eastern Maine Healthcare’s Distinguished Service Award at the organization’s annual meeting.

Woodcock was cited for his longstanding dedication and commitment, and for his great vision for maintaining and improving the health and well-being of the people of central, eastern and northern Maine.

A Bangor native, Woodcock is a graduate of Bowdoin College, the London School of Economics and the University of Maine School of Law. He practices law in Bangor.

Woodcock was elected to the Eastern Maine Medical Center board of trustees in 1980. He has served as board chairman since 1990. He also is a member of the board of Bowdoin College, board of visitors for the University of Maine School of Law, and several professional service committees.

Law partnership

ORONO – Attorneys Theodore S. Curtis Jr. and David R. Miller have formed a partnership for the general practice of law in Orono.

Miller, an Orono native, is a graduate of the University of Maine and of the University of Maine School of Law. Before joining Curtis in practice, he was the land development coordinator for the city of Bangor.

Curtis, an Orono native, is a graduate of Bowdoin College and Harvard Law School. He has more than 30 years of legal experience in Maine. Curtis is a former state representative and senator.

Curtis and Miller Law Office LLP offers a range of legal services, including estate planning, personal injury, Social Security, bankruptcy, real estate and criminal law.

Bank adviser

BANGOR – 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. He will operate through the bank’s Private Clients Group in Bangor to create investment strategies, build investment portfolios, preserve assets and address diversification and tax issues.

Democratic director

BANGOR – 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.