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Giordano heads new Department of Central Management Services

Louis J. Giordano, Springfield, was appointed by Gov. James R. Thompson as director of the new Department of Central Management Services. The departments of personnel and administrative services were merged to create the new department effective July 1 by the governor's Executive Order No. 1 (1982). The department is responsible for data processing, personnel, purchasing, printing, fleet management and property control.

Giordano had been director of personnel since January 1981 and has held other administrative posts in the state government. His annual salary is set at $52,000.

The governor also named Gertrude Jordon and Rose Mary Bombela, both of Chicago, as assistant directors of the new department. Jordan had been assistant director of the Department of Administrative Services after having been a manager in the Department of Personnel. Bombela had been assistant director of personnel. Previously, she had worked on the governor's staff as special assistant for Hispanic affairs. Both Jordan and Bombela will receive annual salaries of $40,000.

All appointments are two-year terms effective July 1 and require Senate confirmation.

The Judiciary

John A. Nordberg, Golf, as judge of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, by President Ronald Reagan effective May 6. Nordberg has been a judge in Cook County Circuit Court since 1976.

J. Waldo Ackerman, Springfield, was named chief federal judge for the central district of Illinois effective June 4. Ackerman succeeds Robert Morgan, Peoria, as chief of the 46-county district. Morgan is now a senior judge handling a reduced caseload. Since 1976, Ackerman has served as a district judge for the Springfield area. Previously he had served as Sangamon County circuit judge and had been elected state's attorney of Sangamon County.

John L. DeLaurenti, Pocahontas, was appointed circuit judge in the 3rd Judicial Circuit by the Supreme Court effective June 1, to fill vacancy. The term ends on December 5. He had been a judge in the 3rd Circuit from 1972-1980.

Frank M. Siracusa, Elmwood Park, was appointed circuit judge in the Cook County Circuit Court by the Supreme Court effective May 13.

Selected by the Cook County Circuit judges as associate judges effective in June were: Joseph N. Casciato, Chicago; Rosaland M. Crandell, Wilmette; Howard L. Fink, Wilmette; Robert M. Hoenig, Chicago; Themis N. Karnezis, Chicago; Ronald E. Magnes, Northbrook; Anne C. O'Laughlin, Chicago; Ronald W. Olson, Chicago; Donald D. Panarese, River Forest; and Stewart D. Spitzer, Lincolnwood. All appointees were attorneys in private practice except Magnes who was employed by the Cook County state's attorney; Olson was an assistant dean at John Marshall Law School; and Panarese was a law administrative assistant in the Cook County sheriff's office.

David W. Watt Jr., Murphysboro, was appointed an associate judge in the 1st Judicial Circuit by the circuit judges effective in June. Watt was an attorney in private practice.

Anthony J. Kogut, Chicago, has resigned as a circuit judge in Cook County effective December 1. He has been a judicial officer since 1964.

Resignations

George A. M. Heroux, Springfield, as director, Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education (IICLE), effective September 1. Heroux, an attorney, has served in this position since 1967 during which time IICLE expanded into one of the larger continuing education organizations offering more than 100 seminars. He has authored Continuing Professional Education — HOW, a book used by professional educators, and numerous articles for professional journals.

Other appointments

Jerry Owens, Springfield, as press secretary and adviser to Democratic attorney general candidate Neil Hartigan, by Hartigan effective June 19. To accept the appointment, Owens has resigned as public information officer for the Illinois State Board of Elections. Early in his career he wrote a political column for the Illinois State Register and later was press secretary to the Senate Democratic majority until 1978.

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Janet Otwell, Evanston, as a director on the national board of the League of Women Voters of the United States, at the league's national convention May 16 in Houston. Otwell, a member of the league for the past 24 years, served as president of its 7,000-member Illinois chapter from 1977-1981. Active in issues affecting children, she served as executive director of the league's Juvenile Court Watching Project and is currently coordinator of the governor's Task Force on Children.

Victor J. Stone, Urbana, elected as president of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) for a two-year term effective June 26. Stone, a member of AAUP since 1956, has been a professsor of law at the University of Illinois since 1955. He was AAUP general counsel from 1978-1980 and is a member of several professional organizations including the American Judicature Society and the American Society of International Law. In 1960 Stone was a co-founder and chairman of the Champaign County chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union.

Penny Kendall, Watseka, as one of seven public members to the National Advisory Board on Child Abuse and Neglect by Secy. of Health and Human Services Richard S. Schweiker, effective August 1 for a four-year term. Kendall is active in child abuse organizations and volunteer groups including the Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) Statewide Citizen's Committee on Child Abuse and Neglect and the DCFS Champaign Region Advisory Committee.

Burton M. "Burt" Southard, Alexandria, Va., as a regional political director of the Republican National Committee, by committee chairman Richard Richards effective May 3. Southard, an assistant professor of political science at Western Illinois University in Macomb from 1973-1980, was a volunteer McDonough County coordinator for the Reagan for President Committee in 1979, and served as political director in former Lt. Gov. Dave O'Neal's U.S. Senate campaign in 1980.

In his new position, Southard will work with state parties and assist Republican candidates in the upcoming 1982 elections in Maryland, Virginia, Delaware, West Virginia and the District of Columbia.

William J. Fleischli, Springfield, as assistant legislative liaison for Department of Transportation by Secy. of Transportation John D. Kramer in April. Previously, Fleischli worked in the Department of Conservation. He replaces Mark Bozell who was named legislative liaison for the department.

Correction

Lynn Raney, Springfield, is industrial development representative for the Commercial and Industrial Development Division in the Department of Commerce and Community Affairs (DCCA) effective April 15 — not head of the Illinois Home Energy Assistance Program as reported in June Illinois Issues.

Honors

Bill Miller, Springfield, was one of four recipients of the Society of Professional Journalists, Sigma Delta Chi First Amendment Award May 26. Miller, associate professor of public affairs reporting at Sangamon State University, is president of the Illinois Freedom of Information Council, and was instrumental in passage of the first Illinois open meetings law in 1957. He has continued to work for strengthening amendments to that law. Sigma Delta Chi created the First Amendment Award to "recognize the strong and continuing efforts of those who seek the preservation and strengthening of freedom of the press and the First Amendment."

The winners of the 1982 Governor's Home Town Awards were announced by Gov. Thompson at the Community Betterment Conference in Springfield May 24. The awards, cosponsored by the Department of Commerce and Community Affairs (DCCA) and the Illinois Office of Voluntary Citizen Participation (IOVCP), were created to recognize communities whose citizens have demonstrated extensive involvement in projects contributing to local economic progress and quality of life. Eighty-eight communities divided into eight categories by population participated in this first awards competition. First place winners in each of the categories from small large communities are Versailles, Tilton, Mokena, Washington, Edwardsville, Glen Ellyn, Danville, and Springfield.

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