PORTLAND – Auburn resident Jennifer L. Carlson has joined TD Banknorth as a public affairs officer in the Corporate and Public Affairs Department in Portland. She is responsible for developing and administering the banking company’s public relations program.

Carlson has six years of public relations experience. Prior to joining TD Banknorth, she served as a senior PR account executive at The VIA Group in Portland, and as a PR account executive at Nancy Marshall Communications in Augusta.

Carlson is a 2001 graduate of Colby College in Waterville. She is a native of Walpole, Mass., where she graduated from Walpole High School in 1997.

TD Banknorth Inc. is a banking and financial services company headquartered in Portland, and a wholly-owned subsidiary of TD Bank Financial Group in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.