Rep. Allison Hepler

Rep. Allison Hepler is serving her fourth term in the Maine House of Representatives. She serves as House chair of the Marine Resources Committee and also sits on the Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry Committee.

Hepler is a retired professor who taught history at the University of Maine at Farmington and is the author of “McCarthyism in the Suburbs: Quakers, Communists and the Children's Librarian.” She has also worked as a printer, a retail store and office coordinator, a magazine production assistant and a steelworker. Additionally, she is part-owner of her husband's wooden boat building and repair business in Small Point, Phippsburg.

Hepler has lived in Woolwich for nearly four decades and is serving her fourth term on the Woolwich Selectboard. She believes we can build and maintain a sustainable environment that doesn't sacrifice jobs. She’s also involved with Maine’s First Ship, the organization that built and launched a replica of a 400-year-old ship “Virginia” in Bath, as well as the Woolwich Historical Society.