10/29
2024
Alumni

An Evening with Susan Deschambault

5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Biddeford Campus (Jack S. Ketchum Library St. Francis Room)
Susan Deschambault
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

An Evening with Susan Deschambault
Interviewed by Linda Morrison, Ph.D.

Susan Deschambault SFC ’71 is a sociology 
alum in the first class of women admitted 
by St. Francis College (UNE precursor 
institution). She was the first social worker 
for the Maine Department of Corrections 
and the first woman allowed to enter the 
all-male state prison. She was also the first 
female police commissioner in Biddeford. Deschambault has been a Biddeford city 
councilor, a state senator, and currently 
serves on the Biddeford planning board.


HOSTED BY THE CRIMINOLOGY, PSYCHOLOGY, AND 
GENDER, WOMEN, AND SEXUALITY STUDIES PROGRAMS

Contact

Linda Morrison, Ph.D.
School of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Psychology