Rep. Mick Devin, D-Newcastle, was selected as one of 48 leaders in the country to attend the Council of State Government’s 2014 Toll Fellowship Program in Lexington, KY., this September.

The annual six day-long seminar, named in honor of Henry Toll, a Colorado senator who founded CSG in 1933, seeks to empower leaders from all three branches of state government.

This year’s agenda includes speakers and sessions designed to stimulate personal assessment and growth, network and relationship-building opportunities. Previous programs have included sessions on leadership personality assessment, media training, crisis management, appreciative inquiry and adaptive leadership.

Devin was nominated by House Majority Leader Seth Berry, D-Bowdoinham, and endorsed by U.S. Representative Chellie Pingree and Maine Secretary of State Matthew Dunlap, all Toll Fellowship alumni. Toll Fellowship graduates include governors, U.S. senators, members of Congress and leaders in state governments from across the country.

Devin is serving his first term in the legislature and serves on the Marine Resources Committee. A marine biologist, Devin works at the Darling Marine Center in Walpole as a hatchery manager and is a retired commander from the U.S. Naval Reserves. He was recently appointed to serve as the House chairman of the commission to study the effects of ocean acidification and its potential effects on commercial shellfish harvested and grown along the Maine coast.

The Council of State Governments is an organization forecasting policy trends for states, commonwealths and territories on a national and regional basis. CSG alerts state elected and appointed officials to emerging social, economic, and political trends, offers state policy responses to rapidly changing conditions and advocates multi-state problem-solving to maximize resources and competitiveness.