LEWISTON – Kelly J. Mercier, Lewiston deputy city clerk, has been awarded the designation of certified municipal clerk by the International Institute of Municipal Clerks Inc. She will join 16 other municipal clerks in Maine who hold this distinction.

Mercier has been employed by the city since February of 1988, serving first as assistant city clerk and then assuming her current position of deputy city clerk in July of 1997.

She is also a certified clerk of Maine, earning her original certification in 2000 and receiving her re-certification in 2004.

Mercier attained her designation as certified municipal clerk through completion of the IIMC-approved Municipal Clerks Institute Program conducted by the New England Municipal Clerks Institute at Salve Regina University, Newport, R.I. This program provides more than 100 student/instructor contact hours of in-depth courses in managerial and leadership skills, social and interpersonal concerns, and technical training needed to deal with changes taking place in government today. Mercier has also attended courses and seminars sponsored by the Maine Town and City Clerks Association, as well as completed other courses, seminars and conferences relating to local government.

She is a member of the International Institute of Municipal Clerks, New England Association of City and Town Clerks, Maine Town and City Clerks Association, and formerly served as president of the Androscoggin & Kennebec Counties Municipal Clerks Association.