Rosa Scarcelli

On October 9, 2018, Scarcelli was considered to be one of many potential challengers to incumbent Republican Senator Susan Collins in the United States Senate election in Maine, 2020.

During the ethics commission's investigation, Republican attorney Daniel Billings represented the defendants, Dennis Bailey and Thom Rhoads. Billings served as legal counsel to Maine Republican governor Paul LePage until being appointed as a Maine District Court Judge in 2012.

In December 2010, Scarcelli suggested in an interview that she was considering running against U.S. Senator Olympia Snowe in the 2012 Senate election, or possibly launching another gubernatorial bid in 2014, neither of which materialized.

In 2009, Scarcelli served on the New England Finance Committee for Barack Obama. She is a member of Young Presidents' Organization (YPO). She is also a member of the Women's International Network of YPO, the International Women's Forum and the Maine Women's Forum, and has served on a number of civic and community boards. She has served also as a Board Member of Ingraham, a non-profit social service and mental health care provider, where she received the 2004 Outstanding Leadership Award.

Rosa was recently named to the Aspen Institute's 2009 Henry Crown Fellowship Program, one of 20 "emerging leaders" across the country from business, politics and the arts. Past recipients have included Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and Delaware Gov. Jack Markell.

On July 20, 2009, Scarcelli announced that she would seek the Democratic nomination for Governor of Maine in the June 8, 2010, primary election. Vying for the nomination with four other candidates, Scarcelli positioned herself as a fiscally conservative Democrat and a political newcomer, being the only candidate who had never held public office before. She attracted support among many younger Democrats. She finished third in the primary behind State Senator Libby Mitchell and former Attorney General G. Steven Rowe.

In 1999, Scarcelli founded her own real estate management company, DE Property Management LLC. Six years later, she took over Stanford Management, a provider of affordable housing. Though the company was operating at a loss when Scarcelli took control, her management guided it to turn a profit in the first year. In 2009 the company added 30 new properties to its portfolio, making Stanford Management one of the largest woman-owned businesses in Maine. Rosa was featured in 2008 as one of the top 50 Affordable Housing Owners in the nation by Affordable Housing Magazine.

Rosa Scarcelli grew up in Wilton, Maine. Her father taught for 35 years nearby at the University of Maine at Farmington, and her mother worked for the Maine State Housing Authority and later started her own housing company. Her father and his friends started the first Democratic Party Pancake Breakfast in Farmington, Maine, one that is still held every St. Patrick's day. She was educated at Waynflete School, where she graduated in 1988. Rosa was George J. Mitchell's first senate page in 1987. She later worked as an intern in his office. Scarcelli went on to attend the University of Maine at Orono, and graduated from Bowdoin College in 1992, where she was named a James Bowdoin scholar.

Rosa W. Scarcelli (born December 13, 1969) is an American politician and business executive, currently serving as the CEO of Stanford Management, a low-cost housing provider in Maine. On July 20, 2009, Scarcelli announced that she was seeking the Democratic nomination for Governor of Maine in the June 8, 2010, primary election, which she lost to Libby Mitchell.