Laurie G. Lachance
| Laurie G. Lachance | |
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| President of Thomas College | |
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Assumed office 2012 |
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| Preceded by | George Spann |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
Laurie Gagnon Dover-Foxcroft, Maine |
| Nationality | American |
| Spouse(s) | David Lachance |
| Children | 2 |
| Parents | George V. Gagnon Mattie Violette Gagnon |
| Alma mater |
Bowdoin College Thomas College |
| Awards | Maine Women's Hall of Fame (2014) |
Laurie Gagnon Lachance is an American economist and college administrator. Since 2012, she has been the president of Thomas College in Waterville, Maine, and is the first woman to fill that post. She was previously the first woman Maine State Economist and the first woman president of the Maine Development Foundation. She was inducted into the Maine Women's Hall of Fame in 2014.
Laurie Gagnon was born in Dover-Foxcroft, Maine, the daughter of George V. Gagnon and Mattie Violette Gagnon. She has two sisters.
She graduated from Foxcroft Academy in 1979. While her father encouraged her to attend college, she did so without having any particular career in mind. Enrolling at Bowdoin College in 1979, she decided to major in economics "because I couldn't get the math course I wanted". She traveled to Austria between her junior and senior years as an AFS student. She credits her stay in Austria and her experience living at Bowdoin College as broadening her outlook beyond her small-town upbringing. In 1983 she graduated from Bowdoin with a bachelor's degree in economics.
After graduation, she began working as an economic analyst and, later, corporate economist for Central Maine Power while pursuing her business degree at Thomas College. She attained her MBA in 1992. In 2012 she was awarded an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from the University of Maine at Presque Isle.
In August 1993 she became State Economist for the Maine State Planning Office, a position she held until October 2004. She was the first woman to hold this position, and her tenure spanned the terms of three governors, John R. McKernan, Jr., Angus King, and John Baldacci. During this time, she also chaired the Maine State Revenue Forecasting Commission.
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