LEWISTON — City Clerk Kathleen M. Montejo, MMC, was recently surprised by colleagues and friends when presented with a Maine Town & City Clerks’ Association Ethelyn Stuart Marthia Memorial Award. The award honors a previous fellow clerk whom she’d greatly admired.

Bangor City Clerk Patti Dubois, current president of the Maine Town & City Clerks’ Association, presented the award to Montejo.

Montejo has served as city clerk and registrar of voters for Lewiston since 1999. She previously served as Bath city clerk and Woolwich town clerk. She was the 2000 MTCCA Municipal Clerk of the Year and was also presented in 2000 with the Lorraine M. Fleury Award for excellence in election administration by the secretary of state.

Montejo is a 2007 nationally certified Master Municipal Clerk, a lifetime state certified clerk of Maine, and a nationally certified municipal clerk. She has also served two terms as state president of the MTCCA and, for the past 12 years, she has been a peer instructor for the Clerks Association, teaching a variety of workshops on topics such as election administration and municipal law.

Montejo graduated from the University of Maine in 1991 with a bachelor of arts degree with a major in public administration and a minor in public relations. She also graduated from the New England Municipal Clerks Institute in 1997.