LEWISTON — Roger Jason Fuller of Lewiston has announced his candidacy as a Democrat for the District 59 House of Representatives seat.

The seat is held by Margaret Rotundo, a Democrat who is termed out of the House.

Fuller moved to Maine in 1968 as a freshman at Orono, and was first employed in 1972 as a teacher at Lewiston High School. He worked at Oak Hill High School in Wales from 1977 to 1999, where he was an English teacher and chairman of several departments. He most recently served as the principal of a large independent high school in Los Angeles, Calif., and retired to his home in Maine in 2014.

Fuller was active at Oak Hill with several initiatives in education, including developing the Androscoggin Valley Education Collaborative, which is still active in Lewiston and surrounding schools.

He was awarded a Milken Educator Award in 1993.

Fuller earned his doctoral degree in leadership and change in 2011 from Antioch University, and in a written statement said he is ready to put that study of leadership to work to help improve Lewiston in sensible ways. As a Democrat, he believes people should strive for excellence, and the four “e’s” in excellence should represent initiatives in “education, environment, employment and equity.”

As a retired educator and small-business man, Fuller firmly believes that it is time to serve the community and the state in which he spent so much of his life.

Fuller is married to Gina Luchini Fuller, a math educator, and they have lived in their Lewiston home since 1973. They have two children: Jason, an educator here in Lewiston; and Katrina, an educator in Boston. They have three grandchildren.