*06/19/15 Eliot Cutler, ME Professional Graduate School

Our speaker this Friday is Eliot Cutler; someone with whom everyone is Maine is familiar. An attorney and entrepreneur, and two-time candidate for Governor, Eliot has accepted the responsibility of creating a new professional graduate school at the University of Maine that will include Maine School of Law, graduate business school programs, and other university offerings. The Alfond Foundation has provided a grant to support the initial planning and organizational work. Eliot will discuss this effort and its significance to the state.

Eliot was born and raised in Bangor. He graduated from Harvard College, and earned his J.D. at Georgetown University. He began his career working for Senator Edmund Muskie. He and his wife live in Cape Elizabeth.