Thomas Lizotte

Thomas Lizotte has been Director of Marketing and Development at Mayo Regional Hospital in Dover-Foxcroft, Maine, since 1997, responsible for the hospital’s marketing, public relations and fundraising functions. He has been the hospital’s liaison for Literature & Medicine since 1998, when Mayo became the second hospital in the country to host the program.

Lizotte has been a member of the Maine Humanities Council’s Board of Directors since 2005, and is the Board’s incoming Chair. He has served the MHC as Vice Chair, Strategic Planning chair, Development Committee chair and representative on Maine's Cultural Affairs Council. He has been a Piscataquis County Commissioner since 2003, currently board chairman, and is also past chair of the Dover-Foxcroft Board of Selectmen.

A graduate of Colby College, Lizotte spent 22 years as a newspaper journalist with stints as sports editor and news editor of the Central Maine Morning Sentinel in Waterville, and as managing editor of the Piscataquis Observer in Dover-Foxcroft and Moosehead Messenger in Greenville.

Lizotte’s interest in public education has led to membership on the President’s Advisory Council at Eastern Maine Community College, and on the Board of Trustees of Foxcroft Academy. An avid reader, he is a member of the Executive Committee of the Thompson Free Library in Dover-Foxcroft.

A strong proponent of the need for economic development in rural Maine, Lizotte is vice chair of the Eastern Maine Development Corp. board, vice chair of the Penquis CAP board, past president of the Piscataquis County Economic Development Council, and secretary of the Pine Crest Development Corp.