ELLSWORTH – The Maine Community Foundation has elected four new members to its board of directors: Dr. David C. Dixon of Strong, Anne O. Jackson of Yarmouth, Betty D. Robinson of Lewiston and Peter Rothschild of Islesboro and New York City.

“These distinguished individuals bring expertise on health issues, education, financial investment and nonprofit board development to the Maine Community Foundation,” said President Henry Schmelzer. “We are honored to have them help us in our mission to strengthen Maine communities.”

A graduate of UNH and Tufts University Medical School, Dixon is general surgeon with a private practice and an attending surgeon at Franklin Memorial Hospital where he was formerly president.

He was a founder of Rural Health Associates and is chairman of the board of directors of Western Maine Physicians-Hospital Organization. Dixon also serves on the advisory committee for the MCF’s Western Maine Fund and the Finance Authority of Maine’s advisory committee on medical education.

Jackson is a graduate of Smith College. She attended the Institute for Civic Leadership in 1996-1997. She has worked with the leadership of nonprofits on strategic planning, board development, board/staff relations and fund-raising.

A co-founder and board chairwoman of the Board Network in Portland, Jackson is a trustee of Hurricane Island Outward Bound and a former chairwoman of the board at the Portland Museum of Art. She is chairwoman of the Committee on Trustees for the University of Southern Maine Foundation board. She also serves on MCF’s Philanthropic Services Committee.

Robinson earned her PhD in sociology from Boston University. She was the first faculty person hired at USM’s Lewiston-Auburn College where she was dean from 1996 to 2003 and where she teaches leadership and organizational studies.

She has served on the Maine State Arbitration and Conciliation Board, the Androscoggin County Chamber of Commerce, the Advisory Board of the Maine Labor Group on Health and the Maine Coalition for Excellence in Education.

A landscape architect and planner, Rothschild is a founding principal of Quennell Rothschild and Partners. He graduated from Harvard and received a masters of landscape architecture from the University of Oregon.

A Fulbright Scholar, he is a Fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects. He is campus landscape architect for Princeton University and vice chairman of New Yorkers for Parks.

He has served as an adviser to Scripps College and the Huntington Library investment programs, and was chairman of the University of Oregon’s endowment investment committee between 1990 and 2002. He is a member of the MCF investment committee.

A statewide public foundation with offices in Portland and Ellsworth, the Maine Community Foundation works in partnership with donors and community groups to strengthen Maine communities. For more information, visit www.mainecf.org or call 1-877-700-6800.