About Dennis Senator Damon was born in Bar Harbor, Maine in 1948. He attended Stetson Grammar School and graduated from Mount Desert High School, both in Northeast Harbor. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in education from the University of Maine at Orono. Senator Damon is a fourth-generation commercial fisherman and has also worked as a schoolteacher, coach, entrepreneur, and small business owner. As a teacher, he developed and taught a course entitled “The Maine Fisherman.” As a coach he was named Maine high school “Baseball Coach of the Year.” He has served as American Legion baseball coach, Zone Commissioner and presently is the Field Director for Maine. Senator Damon is a resident of Trenton, Maine, where he lives with Bonnie, his wife of thirty-five years. Dennis and Bonnie have three grown children: Erin, a graduate of Wheaton College and the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, Sadie, a graduate of the Culinary Institute of America, and Doyle, who is now a fourth year student at Maine Maritime Academy. Senator Dennis S. Damon was elected to public office in November of 1992, where he served as a Hancock County Commissioner. He was elected into the Maine State Senate in 2002. He currently serves as the Senate Chair of the Joint Standing Committee of Marine Resources, Joint Select Committee on Rationalization and as a member of the Transportation Committee. Prior to being elected to the Senate, Damon served on the board of County Commissioners of Hancock County, the Governor's Intergovernmental Restructuring Task Force, the Brewer to Calais Railroad Study Commission, and the Maine Ferry Service Advisory Committee. He also chaired the Maine Rural Development Council. His work on these committees played a major role in preparing, and prompting him to run for the State Senate. Maine Senate President Beverly Daggett appointed Senator Damon as the Maine legislative appointee to the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission in January 2003. Senator Damon welcomes the opportunity to work with fishermen, managers, scientists, and fellow legislators in representing Maine fishing communities on important regional and national fisheries issues.