Maine ACLU head steps down
Shenna Bellows, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Maine, has resigned and a search committee is seeking her permanent replacement.
The Portland Press Herald reported Bellows announced her resignation publicly in a Facebook post late Thursday. Former director Karen Foster will serve as the interim leader of the organization during the search for a permanent replacement.
Bellows did not indicate her next professional move, but political observers have suggested she could be a possible challenger to U.S. Sen. Susan Collins in 2014.
In her resignation post, Bellows said that during her eight years leading the Maine office of the ACLU she worked to enable same-sex couples to marry, reduce solitary confinement in Maine prisons, restore same-day voter registration and resist warrantless surveillance of telephone and email communication. Maine was one of two states to pass a law requiring a warrant for surveillance of cell phone communications.
Bellows said her resignation coincides with her marriage to Brandon Baldwin, the schools and curriculum coordinator for the Civil Rights Team Project for the Maine Attorney General’s Office. Bellows said in her statement that she didn’t want to marry until same-sex couples also had the right to marry in Maine.
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