BANGOR – Judy A. Groth was elected recently to the Maine Women’s Fund board of directors for a three-year term.

Groth is the owner of Groth & Associates, a financial advisory branch of American Express in Bangor. Her firm’s services include planning for risk protection, taxes, retirement, estate preservation, investments, asset allocation and education.

Groth currently serves on the board of directors for Wings for Children and Families and the Bangor Museum and Center for History. She is a member of the Chamber of Commerce and past president of Rape Response Services.

The Maine Women’s Fund is a statewide foundation that helps women and girls have equal access to education, economic stability and leadership positions by giving grants to nonprofit organizations in Maine, and hosting special programs. In 13 funding rounds it has invested more than $1.2 million throughout Maine for solutions posed by women and girls to some of Maine’s most pressing problems.

In the Greater Bangor area, the Maine Women’s Fund has funded several organizations including the Mabel Wadsworth Women’s Health Center, Bangor CUReS, Maine Center for Deafness, Penquis Law Project, Wabanaki Mental Health Association, Together Place, W.A.R. Against Isolation and the Women’s Collective.

Karin Anderson, Maine Women’s Fund executive director, has led the organization for the past 10 years. Other newly elected members to the Maine Women’s Fund board of directors are Elizabeth Banwell, Stockton Springs; Lindsay Cadwallader, Portland; Jennifer Goldman, South Portland; Marsha Greenberg, Peaks Island; Vivianne Holmes, Buckfield; Karen Kilbride, Falmouth; and Heidi-Anne Loughlin, Yarmouth.

To obtain information about the Maine Women’s Fund, call Shannon Nichols at 774-5513.