Meet Jenifer

Jenifer began her career in 1989 with Winslow Asset Management, which later merged with FL Putnam. In 1994, she and Jean Deighan founded Deighan Wealth Advisors where she held several leadership roles including President. She is currently a Senior Advisor at Birchbrook with 35+ years of investment management and financial planning experience. Jenifer received her Bachelor of Science from the University of Maine at Machias. She holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation and is a Certified Financial Planner®.

Jenifer has served on numerous boards and committees. In addition to her Sarah’s House board roles, she is Vice Chair of the Northern Light EMMC Board and chairs the Quality and Professional Affairs Committee. Jenifer is a past President of Rotary Club of Bangor and a Paul Harris Fellow award recipient.

Jenifer joined the Sarah’s House Board because while at a Rotary District Conference in 2013, she heard a presentation by Ben Robinson and Lindsay (Robinson) Holmstrom. There wasn’t a dry eye in the room, and Jen was determined to help make Sarah’s dream a reality so Mainers traveling significant distances for cancer treatment would have a warm and welcoming place to stay. 

Jenifer enjoys solving a good puzzle. She also likes sailing, skiing, hiking, reading, board and card games, gardening, cooking, and spending time with family and friends – not in that specific order. She is a student of Shotokan karate and has achieved the rank of black belt.  Jenifer lives in Swanville with her amazing husband, John Butler. She has one supremely talented and kind adult son and is also mama to the best pound puppy snuggle bucket on the planet.