Director of Maine Department of Environmental Protection
Ms. Richardson became the Director of Southern Maine Regional Office in Portland in 2016. She has been with the Department since the early 1990’s, working mostly within the Bureau of Land Resources as project manager and then the Licensing and Compliance manager, where she managed programs administering the Site Location of Development Act, the Stormwater Law and the Natural Resources Protection Act. Ms. Richardson has a bachelor’s degree in environmental science from Rutgers University.