PORTLAND – Sherwood C. Moody, president and chief executive officer of Mechanics Savings Bank, was elected chairman of the Maine Association of Community Banks at the organization’s 111th annual meeting June 24. He succeeds Michael McNamara, president and chief executive officer of Peoples Heritage Bank, who will remain on the Executive Committee.

Robert Harmon, president and chief executive officer of Norway Savings Bank, was named association vice chairman.

Moody was appointed president of Mechanics Savings Bank in 1999, after serving as president and chief executive officer of the Clearfield Bank and Trust of Clearfield, Pa.

He is past president of the Independent Community Bankers of Maine, incoming president of the Auburn/Lewiston Rotary Club, Business Partner of the University of Southern Maine L/A campus, director of the Central Maine Community College Foundation and member of the Executive Committee, and active member of the L/A Chamber of Commerce.

He is a graduate of Cornell University and the Stonier Graduate School of Banking.

Elected to the association’s executive committee were: Steven A. Closson, president, Androscoggin Bank; Dennis Brown, president, Calais Federal Savings & Loan Association; Mark Johnston, president, Kennebec Savings Bank; Joel W. Stevens, president, Kennebunk Savings Bank; Arthur C. Markos, president, Gardiner Savings Institution, FSB; and Virginia Howard, president, Skowhegan Savings Bank.

The association represents 23 member banks throughout Maine.