Our Leadership

Carroll Conley

Executive Director

Carroll Conley, Jr., an 11th generation Mainer, grew up in north/central Maine where his parents faithfully took him to the Untied Baptist Church in Milo.

After graduating from Bangor Christian Schools, Carroll attended Pensacola Christian College where he received a Bachelor of Science in Secondary Education. In 1999, he received a Master of Arts from the University of Maine in Orono in Educational Leadership.

Carroll served in administration and athletics at New Testament Christian School in Norton, MA from 1981-1992. He was Head Master at the School for the last five years.

In 1992, Carroll and his family moved to Maine where he served at Bangor Baptist Ministries as Headmaster, Music Director, and Advancement Director until 2010.

During his tenure as Headmaster of Bangor Christian Schools, Carroll served as the President of the Northeast Principal’s Association and was on the Executive Committee of the Maine Principal’s Association.

In July of 2010, he became the Executive Director of the Christian Civic League of Maine.

Carroll and his wife Teri, married since 1980, have two adult sons. One son has served in the military and the other son currently serves. The Conley’s reside on Pushaw Lake in Glenburn and are active members of Bangor Baptist Church.

email: carroll@cclmaine.org

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Board Members

We hope these brief biographies of our Board of Directors will acquaint you with these men and women of God who so selflessly devote themselves to the mission of the Christian Civic League of Maine. More importantly, we ask you to hold them up in prayer as they seek the Lord for wisdom and guidance in being effective and faithful to this awesome task.

Pastor Bob Emrich

Chairman

Bob and Debbie Emrich live in Plymouth, Maine where he has served as Pastor of Emmanuel Bible Baptist Church in Plymouth since 1993. He is the founder and Director of the Maine Jeremiah Project. He is also a board member of Maine Right to Life and represents Maine on the National Right to Life Committee. He is a Co-founder and Director of Crossroads Life Options Crisis pregnancy center. Bob and several close friends founded The Maine Marriage Alliance to promote and protect traditional marriage. When the Maine legislature and governor wrote a new definition of marriage, Bob formed a partnership that became Stand for Marriage Maine, becoming one of the leaders in restoring the definition of marriage in Maine to its one man/one woman status.

Pastor Emrich is a graduate of Clatsop Community College, New Brunswick Bible Institute, and the University of Maine. He taught high school history and social studies for about ten years and worked for several years as the Chief of Staff in Maine’s Senate Republican office.

He is the recipient of numerous awards but considers his greatest honors being called “Dad” and “Grampa”.

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Pastor Sandy Williams

Secretary

Pastor Sandy Williams has been a supporter of the Christian Civic League of Maine since moving here in 1979 and has served as a Board member and Chairman of the Coalition for Marriage in 2005.  He is a graduate of Moody Bible Institute, Trinity College (B.A.) and Trinity Evangelical Divinity School (M.Div.) and has served as Pastor-Teacher of the First Baptist Church of Freeport since 1979.

Sandy has also served on the Board of the American Baptist Churches of Maine and American Baptist Churches/USA.  He is an associate member of the Evangelical Theological Society and Society of Biblical Literature.  Special interests include promotion of religious liberty and defense of natural marriage.  He and his wife Beverly have three adult children and six grandchildren.

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Elaine Bridge

Treasurer

Elaine Bridge is a “County girl” [Aroostook]; she migrated to central Maine and taught high school and was a 4H Club agent before marrying and becoming a full-time mother. She has been active in local and state politics as a school board member, and has served as the treasurer and chairman of the Kennebec County Republican Committee. She’s also been a member of the Republican State Committee and has attended several GOP national conventions. She has also actively served in her church and in the community as a member of the YMCA Board of Directors.

Elaine and her husband David started supporting the League in the 1960s and worked very closely with longtime Executive Director Ben Bubar. She came on the Board of Directors shortly after Bubar’s retirement and is now serving with her third different Executive Director.  Elaine lives just outside of August in Manchester and is the mother of four and the grandmother of four and the great grandmother of four.

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Scott C. Mitchell

Scott Mitchell is President and Chairman of Southern Industrial Sales and Services, Inc.  and other small businesses nationwide. He operates his companies from his home in Glenburn, Maine and has been a Maine resident for almost thirty years. Educated at the University of Montana (BA), the University of Maine (MA) and St. Tikhon’s  Orthodox Seminary (MDiv), he is a firm believer in the virtues of lifelong education.  His children were schooled in Bangor and son Scott is currently attending Bowdoin College. Wife, Janice, works full-time with the grandchildren and organization of the family schedules- an impossible task! Scott has served on the Boards of Public Companies, start-up high tech firms, and also for national non-profits and values the role of the CCL in maintaining a leadership role in the continuing public debates revolving around issues of Faith and Politics.