Born and raised in Rockland, Evelyn "Evie" Carrington is the daughter of a lighthouse keeper and a public school teacher who taught her that stewardship and service go hand in hand. She chased the questions that kept her up at night—why fisheries collapse, how coastlines adapt—and earned a PhD in Marine Biology from the University of Maine. Before elected office, she served as a field researcher, policy analyst, and eventually Director of Maine’s Department of Marine Resources, where she balanced the livelihoods of working watermen with long-term sustainability. Her steady command during a major coastal spill—coordinating local harbor masters, scientists, and federal responders—made her a trusted public face in crisis. Carrington was elected Governor on a promise to fuse science with common sense. In office, she championed the Coastal Resilience & Working Waterfronts Act, a bipartisan package that funded pier repairs, sea-wall upgrades, and living-shoreline projects from Kittery to Eastport. She paired it with the Working Waterfront Tax Credit, protecting family-owned wharves from being priced off the coast. Under her leadership, Maine expanded responsible offshore wind supply-chain jobs and accelerated community solar while safeguarding migratory patterns and lobster grounds through rigorous environmental review—policy written at the same tables as fishermen, tribes, and conservationists. Recognizing that prosperity has to reach the interior as well as the coast, Carrington pushed a rural broadband buildout, small-mill retooling grants, and apprenticeship pipelines that connect high schoolers and returning veterans to careers in boatbuilding, precision manufacturing, forestry tech, and clean-energy maintenance. Her administration launched a cross-border working group with New Brunswick to streamline trade and emergency response along the Saint Croix River, and formalized government-to-government consultation with the Wabanaki Nations as part of every major natural-resources decision. Public health has been a through-line of her tenure. Carrington expanded mobile clinics and telehealth reimbursements for remote counties, strengthened overdose-response teams, and opened additional recovery housing near major fishing ports where seasonal income and substance-use risk often intersect. She also created the Blue Economy Innovation Fund, seeding kelp and shellfish aquaculture start-ups, by-catch reduction tech, and cold-chain logistics improvements that help Maine seafood fetch premium prices worldwide. Governance, for Carrington, is a practice of listening: to lobstermen at dawn dock meetings, to nurses on night shift, to students worried about housing costs. She is known for calm, direct briefings during storms and nor’easters, and for insisting that every press release translate technical findings into plain English. Her greatest professional tension—protecting ecosystems while keeping boats on the water—hasn’t vanished; she manages it through transparent data, predictable timelines, and targeted relief when rules change faster than boats can. Re-elected on the strength of cross-party coastal towns and young voters statewide, Governor Carrington remains guided by the same lighthouse-keeper’s mantra she grew up with: keep the light steady, especially when the fog rolls in.