Sr. Ellen Turner, RSM ’69

Sister Ellen Turner, RSM ’69 is a Mission Service Specialist at Mercy Hospital in Portland, Maine. Previously, she served at Mercy Hospital as the vice president for mission effectiveness and in other mission services roles for twenty-five years. Prior to that, Sr. Ellen worked for a number of years in primary and secondary school education in Maine. She served as a teacher or as a principal in Bangor, Portland and on the Passamaquoddy Indian Township and Pleasant Point Reservations.

In addition to her service as Secretary of the Board at Saint Joseph’s College, Sr. Ellen has served in Portland on the Board of Directors of Catholic Charities, the Institutional Review Board of Mercy Hospital, and on the Advisory Committee of Gary’s House, a home-away-from-home for families and individuals with loved ones receiving medical treatment in a Portland area hospital.

Sr. Ellen earned her bachelor’s degree in elementary education from Saint Joseph’s College and her master’s degree in special education from Fordham University in New York.