Lynda Adams, 38, is the Democratic candidate for city clerk. Originally from Raymond, she lives in Westbrook with her husband, Shawn Adams, who works for the public services department.

Lynda Adams has nine years of experience working for the city of Westbrook beginning in 1989, two years after graduating from Windham High School. She first worked in the city clerk’s office under Bill Clark, then became secretary to former Westbrook Fire Chief Byron Rogers in 1993. In 1998 she moved on to the private sector, where she was thrown into a variety of managerial roles in marketing and sales. She has volunteered as a warden in Ward 3 in the last two elections.

In her private sector positions as well as her early work in the clerk’s office she has experience in creating automated file systems, which she expects to do again if elected as city clerk.

More recently, Adams spent over three years running a non-medical, in-home care for the elderly business where she had 16 people working under her. She closed down that shop after her husband suffered complications from a medical illness. She continued to care for a few of her elderly clients that she had become especially close with.

Adams currently works as a “shockwave technician,” a medical treatment using sound waves. She said she had been thinking about becoming a city clerk since she worked in the city clerk’s office in her early 20s.

Adams hastily postponed a planned vacation to attend the Republican caucus. She said she had registered as a Republican in her 20s in order to vote in a presidential primary, but doesn’t consider herself politically affiliated. After being defeated at the caucus, she sought the Democratic nomination, and won.

“I didn’t hesitate (to switch parties) because I don’t really think the city clerk is a political position,” Adams said. She feels the clerk’s position should be an appointed, not an elected one, because she believes the most qualified person should be given the job.

If elected, Adams said she wants to help get the city back to a small-town feel, where everyone knows each other.

“That’s what I miss, and that’s what I want to do.”

Lynda Adams, 38, is the Democratic candidate for city clerk. Originally from Raymond, she lives in Westbrook with her husband, Shawn Adams, who works for the public services department.

Lynda Adams has nine years of experience working for the city of Westbrook beginning in 1989, two years after graduating from Windham High School. She first worked in the city clerk’s office under Bill Clark, then became secretary to former Westbrook Fire Chief Byron Rogers in 1993. In 1998 she moved on to the private sector, where she was thrown into a variety of managerial roles in marketing and sales. She has volunteered as a warden in Ward 3 in the last two elections.

In her private sector positions as well as her early work in the clerk’s office she has experience in creating automated file systems, which she expects to do again if elected as city clerk.

More recently, Adams spent over three years running a non-medical, in-home care for the elderly business where she had 16 people working under her. She closed down that shop after her husband suffered complications from a medical illness. She continued to care for a few of her elderly clients that she had become especially close with.

Adams currently works as a “shockwave technician,” a medical treatment using sound waves. She said she had been thinking about becoming a city clerk since she worked in the city clerk’s office in her early 20s.

Adams hastily postponed a planned vacation to attend the Republican caucus. She said she had registered as a Republican in her 20s in order to vote in a presidential primary, but doesn’t consider herself politically affiliated. After being defeated at the caucus, she sought the Democratic nomination, and won.

“I didn’t hesitate (to switch parties) because I don’t really think the city clerk is a political position,” Adams said. She feels the clerk’s position should be an appointed, not an elected one, because she believes the most qualified person should be given the job.

If elected, Adams said she wants to help get the city back to a small-town feel, where everyone knows each other.

“That’s what I miss, and that’s what I want to do.”