Lincoln Academy Board of Trustees

Nancy Starmer : Chair
Nancy Starmer
starmer@lincolnacademy.org

Nancy Starmer joined the LA community in 2017 as a consultant to the board, then served as Interim Head of School during the 2018-19 school year. At Milton Academy in Boston, where she spent the first 27 years of her career, she wore many hats as a history teacher, dorm head, mid-level administrator, and ultimately Upper School Principal. In 2000 she was named Head of School at George School, a Friends boarding and day school in PA, retiring in 2016 (just in time to become involved in—and fall in love with--Lincoln Academy). She currently lives in Sandwich NH where she also serves on the local district school board.


Jennifer Ribeiro : Vice Chair
Jennifer Ribeiro
ribeiro@lincolnacademy.org

Jennifer Ribeiro holds an AB from Bowdoin College, a MA from the University of Southern Maine in Education and a CAS in Educational Leadership from the University of Maine at Orono.  She has worked in public education for over 27 years and is currently employed as the principal of the Bristol Consolidated School. Jennifer and her husband Jay live in Nobleboro where they raised two children who are graduates of Lincoln Academy, Julia ‘15 and David ‘17.


Judi Hilton : Finance Chair / Board Member
Judi Hilton
judihilton@lincolnacademy.org

Judi Hilton ‘91 grew up in Jefferson, ME. After graduating from LA she went to college in Boston and has lived there ever since, with the exceptions of a few years in Silicon Valley and London for work. She owns a home in Jefferson, and splits her time between there and Boston. She was most recently the COO for a global corporate real estate consulting firm.


Faustine Reny : Secretary
Faustine Reny
faustinereny@lincolnacademy.org

Faustine Reny ‘01 is the current Treasurer of the Board of Trustees. She has a BS in Accounting from Lasell University in Newton, MA, and a MS in Accounting from Suffolk University. She is the Operations Manager at R.H. Reny, Inc and a co-owner of the family business. She lives in Bristol with her partner Nicholas Plumer and their children Cordelia and Wesley - who will be 5th Generation LA grads in the ‘30’s!


David Fields : Board Member
David Fields
davidfields@lincolnacademy.org

David Fields is a zooplankton ecologist with Bigelow Labs. He is a graduate of the University of Utah (BS) and the State University of New York at Stony Brook (MS, PhD). In addition to his research and lab work at Bigelow, early in his career he taught courses at the high school level and also taught later at the Georgia Institute for Technology, where he was a post-doctoral Fellow. David has pages of publications to his credit as well as an impressive list of graduate students he’s supervised and courses he’s taught to students from high school through graduate school. He and his wife Adele Gale are parents of LA grads Tanner '13 and Tess '15.


Chris Hall : Board Member
Chris Hall
chrishall@lincolnacademy.org

Chris Hall has recently stepped down from the role of Town Administrator for Bristol, having served in that role since 2017. Chris holds an MA degree in philosophy and economics and a PhD in international relations from Oxford University, and an MS in business administration from Columbia University. Over the course of his career he has spent 15 years as an executive in the mining, steel, and oil industries; 10 years in public policy including four in the Maine legislature; ten years leading higher education institutions on 3 continents; all interspersed with teaching positions in the US, the UK, and Eastern Europe. Chris has worked and traveled in 70 different countries.


Liz Storer : Board Member
Liz Storer
elizabethstorer@lincolnacademy.org

Liz Storer ’01 is the owner and president of R.J. Enterprises Inc., an environmental contracting and consulting firm in Brunswick. She began working for R.J. Enterprises in 2009 and has many certifications in the areas of facilities compliance, environmental policy and procedure, industrial hygiene, exposure monitoring, construction project design, OSHA, trades education, and more. She is currently pursuing a master’s degree in environmental health and safety. Liz and her husband Ronnie are 2001 graduates of Lincoln Academy and reside in Damariscotta with their 3 children. Their daughter Marley is currently a senior at LA and their sons Forest and Mason are at GSB in grades 8 and 3. In addition to work and family, Liz has recently joined the Lincoln Little League Board.


Cindy Wade : Board Member
Cindy Wade
cindywade@lincolnacademy.org

Cindy Wade ’83 holds a Bachelor’s in nursing and a Master’s in Health Care Administration from St. Joseph’s College. Early in her career, she spent 6 years as a Commissioned Officer and Nurse in the Navy in a variety of roles. Cindy returned to Maine in 1994 to work in Lincoln County. She has held various positions during her career in this area, including, until April 2021, that of Chief Operation Officer for LincolnHealth, Pen Bay Medical Center, and Waldo County General. In April of 2021 she became the new President for LincolnHealth. Cindy has been very active in the community including the Central Lincoln County Y Board, the Damariscotta Region Chamber of Commerce where she was Board Chair; past President and Treasurer of the Sheepscot Community Church and current Secretary; and is on the United Way of Midcoast Maine Board. She lives in Sheepscot Village with her husband James and has three sons, all LA grads.


Jill Griffin : Board Member
Jill Griffin
jillgriffin@lincolnacademy.org

Jill Griffin holds a JD from Ohio State University College of Law. She worked as a labor lawyer for several federal agencies in Washington D.C., spending most of her career at the National Labor Relations Board, litigating before U.S. Courts of Appeals across the country and the U.S. Supreme Court.  After spending summers vacationing in Damariscotta, Jill and her husband, Bill Farren, retired to Jefferson to live on the lake.  Prior to that, they lived in Maryland and New Jersey, where they raised their two daughters. In addition to Lincoln Academy, she is involved in a variety of volunteer activities in the area.


Paul Anderson : Board Member
Paul Anderson
paulanderson@lincolnacademy.org

Paul Anderson was born and raised in Washington state, and landed in Pemaquid more than 20 years ago. He and his wife Kathy became year-round residents of Maine in 2006 when he retired from his role as Chairman of Duke Energy. Prior to that the Andersons lived many places in the US and overseas, including four years in Australia. Paul holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Washington and an MBA from Stanford. In addition to Lincoln Academy, he serves as  a trustee for the Maine Maritime Museum.


John D Eraklis : Board Member
John D Eraklis
eraklis@lincolnacademy.org

John D. Eraklis is a career filmmaker and has been CEO of a Los Angeles based production company for the past 20 years, specializing in animated features and documentaries. A graduate of Suffield Academy (CT) and the University of Rhode Island, John grew up in Connecticut and spent summers in Maine. After the birth of their first child John and his wife Laura made the decision to relocate to Maine (they currently live in Bristol) to raise their children. Their daughter is a member of the Class of '24, and two younger children attend South Bristol School.


Steven Hufnagel : Board Member
Steven Hufnagel
hufnagel@lincolnacademy.org

Serving on the Lincoln Academy board is a chance for Steven to combine his personal and professional commitment to local education. Steven is Executive Director of Coastal Rivers Conservation Trust (formerly DRA and PWA), where he has worked for 18 years to connect community with nature through trails and educational programs, often partnering with Lincoln Academy. He and his wife, Liza Fleming-Ives, are residents of Damariscotta with one current and one future LA student: Audrey '24 and Nathaniel '26. They're avid hikers and big fans of water in all its forms: fresh and salt, liquid and frozen. 

Steven earned his BA from Williams College and MS from the School of Natural Resources and Environment at the University of Michigan Ann Arbor.


Juliet Kelsey-Holmes : Board Member
Juliet Kelsey-Holmes
holmesj@lincolnacademy.org

Juliet is a proud member of Lincoln Academy's Alumni class of 1992 and Wheaton College's Alumni class of 1996. She started her recruiting career in Boston with Martin Grant Associates, Inc. in 1998 after initially turning the position down a year earlier to wait on tables in Boothbay Harbor for one last glorious Maine summer (she has no regrets). Since then, Juliet has successfully built the national Employee Benefits, Healthcare and Financial Services recruiting division for MGA.  Juliet and her husband Justin Holmes also started another business here in Maine called Maine Business Advisors, LLC, a business advisory and brokerage firm.  Juliet has been volunteering (with Dennis Prior '91's encouragement) to support the development office at Lincoln Academy for many years, most notably leading her amazing 1992 Class in dominating the Alumni Community Challenge each year! Juliet lives in Hallowell with her family (Justin, Helaena, Graeff & Elias) but her heart will always be with Walpole and the greater LA Community.


Bob Manning : Board Member
Bob Manning
manning@lincolnacademy.org

During the decade following graduation from the University of Maine, Bob was a teacher and later principal of a middle school near Bangor. In 1980, Bob & Rachel made a decision to make their life in the mid-coast and raise their sons in Bristol. This led to a career in shipbuilding with a 2002 transition to marine transportation in tug and barge operations. Before retirement in 2016, Bob managed global sea lifts, primarily in the energy sector.


Sara Mitchell : Board Member
Sara Mitchell
mitchells@lincolnacademy.org

Sara Mitchell was first introduced to life in Maine when she attended the Chewonki Semester Program as a junior in high school, returning in 2000 to make Maine her home. Since then, she has served on the boards of Chewonki, Central Lincoln County Ambulance, Sheepscot Valley Children’s House, and AOS93, serving as the AOS liaison to the LA Board in 2018-19. Sara, her husband John, and their two sons live in South Bristol where she is currently finishing her term as Chair of the South Bristol School Board. Their oldest son Michael is a member of Lincoln Academy's Class of '26 and youngest, Colin, in 7th grade at South Bristol.


Chris Olson : Board Member
Chris Olson
chrisolson@lincolnacademy.org

Chris Olson ‘83 is an investment manager in Chicago. He has a BA in Political Science from Middlebury College, an MBA at the Wharton School and an MA in East Asian Studies. He has lived abroad in Sweden, Taiwan and Japan, and currently works as a principal and portfolio manager for High Pointe Capital Management. He serves as chairman of the board for the Swedish Covenant Hospital in Chicago, where he lives with his wife Charlene. They have two children who attended the Latin School of Chicago and are currently attending Princeton University.