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Major changes in governor's top staff

Several people have new job titles following a reorganization of Gov. James R. Thompson's staff in March. James Reilly, who was the governor's chief of staff, is now deputy governor. Jerry Blakemore, who was deputy governor, is now director of intergovernmental relations. And Jeffrey Miller, who was director of the Governor's Office of Planning, replaced Reilly as chief of staff.

Deputy Gov. Reilly oversees policy formation, including developing the budget and leading legislative negotiations on major items in Thompson's legislative package. His salary remains at $75,679. Chief of Staff Miller coordinates the development of policy and fiscal matters and oversees the execution of policy. His annual salary is $73,453. Intergovernmental Relations Director Blakemore is responsible for coordinating relations between Illinois and other states, governmental agencies and the federal government. His salary is $60,610.

Assisting Miller is Ellen Craig, peviously director of the Governor's Office of Citizen's Assistance and Consumer Affairs, and now the deputy chief of staff in Chicago. Kathy Selcke continues as deputy chief of staff in Springfield.

The governor's program staff, reporting to Paula Wolff, director of program and policy, has been reorganized and upgraded. Under Wolff, who has been in charge of policy development since the beginning of the Thompson administration, the program staff will work with state and government agencies and external groups on a day-to-day basis, formulating policy and monitoring performance. Under the reorganization, there are eight program areas: Natural Resources, headed by Karen Witter; Human Services, Jess McDonald; Public Safety, Jim Williams; Economic Development, John Glennon; Education. Gail Lieberman; General Government, Eric Brenner; Office of Planning. Mary Ann Louderback; and two areas, Local Government and Transportation, not assigned as of March 26.

Health Care Cost Containment Council gets new member, executive director

Gov. Thompson in February named Ruth M. Rothstein of Chicago to the Illinois Health Care Cost Containment Council; she fills a vacancy created when Rand J. Wortman left the council in 1986. Rothstein, who is president and chief executive officer of Mount Sinai Hospital and Medical Center and Schwab Rehabilitation Center in Chicago, is the hospital representative on the 12-member council. The appointment, which must be confirmed by the Senate, was effective immediately, will expire in September 1987 and pays expenses only.

Marilyn Plomann of Chicago became the council's new executive director in March. Appointed by the council's members, Plomann began her job in April. Previously a senior manager of Peat, Marwick, Mitchell and Co., she replaced Jim Tripp, who will remain with the council as director of data base operations.

Rehabilitation, fiduciary advisers reappointed

Gov. James R. Thompson made reappointments to two advisory panels in February. Reappointed as chairman of the Rehabilitation Services Advisory Council was Jack K. Genskow of Springfield, associate professor of counseling and human development at Sangamon State University. Also reappointed as members of the council were Clarinda Valentine of Chicago, public health adviser, United States Public Health Services, and Charles Smith of Tinley Park, executive director, Southwest Community Service. The reappointments were effective immediately and expire January 13, 1992. The council advises the director of the Department of Rehabilitation Services in matters concerning disabled persons and the provision of rehabilitation services.

James Dawson of Mount Carmel, vice president and trust officer, Security Bank and Trust Company, was reappointed to the Illinois Fiduciary Advisory Committee. The committee advises the commissioner of banks and trusts in matters concerning banking and financial policy. The reappointment was effective immediately and expires January 1, 1991.

The advisory positions pay expenses only and require Senate confirmation.

The Judiciary

Appointments, assignments and retirements announced recently by the Illinois Supreme Court are reported below:

1st District Appellate Court

• Assigned to appellate court duty: Cook County Circuit Judge Blanche M. Manning of Chicago, effective March 16.

• Presiding judges: 1st Division, William R. Quinlan; 2nd Division, Anthony Scariano; 3rd Division, Daniel J. McNamara; 4th Division, Mary Ann McMorrow; and 5th Division, John J. Sullivan.

• Chairman of the district's executive committee: Glenn T. Johnson (also chairman of the Illinois Appellate Court for 1987).

2nd District Appellate Court

• Presiding judge: George W. Lindberg of Crystal Lake.

5th District Appellate Court

• Presiding judge: John M. Karns Jr. of

Belleville.

Illinois Judicial Conference

• Reappointed chairman of the 12-person executive committee: Charles Durham of Chicago (Cook County Circuit Court). Reappointed member and vice-chairman: Anthony M. Peccarelli of Wheaton (18th Circuit). Appointed as a member: Alex T. Bower of Ottawa (13th Circuit). Reappointed as members: Michael Close and William Cousins, both of Chicago (Cook County Circuit Court).

Cook County Circuit Court

• Appointment of supervising judge of the housing section in the First Municipal District: Circuit Judge Edward H. Marsalek of Chicago by Chief Judge Harry G. Comerford. He replaces Frank G. Sulewski, who died November 22.

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• Appointments of circuit judges: former (1970-72, 1974-84) state Sen. Robert J. Egan of Chicago; private attorney Edward G. Finnegan of Niles; Public Buildings Commission executive director Brian Kilgallon of Chicago; assistant Illinois attorney general David G. Lichtenstein of Chicago; Shelvin Singer of Northbrook, a law professor at Chicago Kent College of Law; and associate judge Stephen R. Yates of Chicago. The appointments of Egan, Lichtenstein and Yates were effective in January; Finnegan's and Kilgallon's in March; and Singer's in April.

• Assigned to duty in the circuit court: Robert J. Collins, Philip A. Fleischman and Louis A. Wexler all retired circuit judges from Chicago, effective to July 1.

• Extension of assignments to judicial service July 1: retired judges Morton C. Elden, Hyman Feldman, John McGury, Benjamin Nelson, Harry S. Stark, Alfred B. Teton, Raymond Trafelet and Eugene L. Wachowski.

• Resignation: Circuit Judge Brian L. Crowe, a judicial officer since 1975, effective March 1.

• Deceased: Circuit Court Judge James A. Geroulis, 76, of Chicago, in January after being struck by a car in suburban Morton Grove.

2nd Judicial Circuit

• Appointment to associate judge (by circuit judges): former circuit judge George W. Timberlake of Albion.

3rd Judicial Circuit

• Appointment to associate judge (by circuit judges): private attorney Michael J. Meehan of Edwardsville.

5th Judicial Circuit

• Appointments to associate judge (by circuit judges): private attorneys Herrold D. Andrews of Paris and David G. Bernthal of Danville.

6th Judicial Circuit

• Appointment to circuit judge: private attorney John Greanias of Decatur, effective March 12.

• Reappointed chief judge (by fellow circuit judges): Rodney A. Scott of Decatur.

8th Judicial Circuit

• Retirement: associate judge Virgil W. Timpe of Quincy, a judicial officer since 1965, effective March 15.

9th Judicial Circuit

• Appointment to associate judge (by circuit judges): private attorney Larry W. Heiser of Bushnell.

11th Judicial Circuit

• Selected by fellow circuit judges as chief judge: William T. Caisley of Bloomington. 12th Judicial Circuit

• Appointments to associate judge: private attorneys Ludwig J. Kuhar and Robert C. Lorz, both of Joliet.

14th Judicial Circuit

• Appointment to associate judge: former circuit judge Jay M. Hanson of Geneseo.

16th Judicial Circuit

• Appointment to associate judge: private attorney Pamela K. Jensen of Elgin, the first woman to serve on the 16th Circuit bench.

• Resignation: associate judge William H. Ellsworth of Geneva, a judicial officer since 1971, effective August 1, 1987.

17th Judicial Circuit

• Appointment to associate judge: Boone County State's Atty. Gerald F. Grubb of Belvidere.

• Resignation: associate judge Paul A. Logli of Rockford, a judicial officers since 1981, effective November 25, 1986.

19th Judicial Circuit

• Appointment to associate judge: private attorney Barbara Gilleran-Johnson of Long Grove.

20th Judicial Circuit

• Selected as chief judge: Joseph F. Cunningham of Belleville, effective January 1.

Seniors form new coalition

Twenty-two senior citizen advocacy groups are members of the new Illinois Senior Citizen Leadership Council, a statewide, nonprofit and nonpartisan coalition.

The new organization, which plans to meet quarterly, focuses on issues related to the total senior citizen movement, including the Older Americans Act, elder abuse, nursing home ombudsmen, health care and insurance, in-home care, age discrimination, employment opportunities, nutrition programs and other issues. Its objectives are to research these issues and problems and recommend solutions for senior citizens in general; communicate findings to members, legislators, governmental departments and the media; and draft legislation, obtain sponsors, lobby legislators, committees, boards and commissions and encourage grassroots participation.

Officers include: chairman, William J. Major, president, Illinois Association of Senior Citizens; first vice chairman, Walter Janik, representative, Chicago Senior Senate; second vice chairman, Marge Shea, representative, Illinois Retired Teachers Association; secretary, Robert M. Crane, executive director, State University Annuitants Association; and treasurer, Milton Schraeder, international representative, Agency of Retired UAW Members-Illinois.

The council was an outgrowth of two senior citizen leadership conferences held at Sangamon State University in 1985 and 1986. The conferences were cosponsored by the university's gerontology program and its continuing education office and the Attorney General's Office. The organization's ad hoc status changed in January 1987 when its constitution and bylaws were approved, making it a self-sustaining coalition.

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Chicago-based charitable funds expands board

Woods Charitable Fund Inc. voted in February to expand its board of trustees and to elect Dr. Sokoni Karanja of Chicago and Sheila Griffin of Lincoln, Neb., as the two new trustees. Karanja is executive director of Centers for New Horizons, a large nonprofit organization serving approximately 1,500 people daily in the lowest-income neighborhoods on Chicago's south side. Griffin is with the University of Nebraska, serving as director of the Lied Center Project and assistant to the chancellor for the arts.

In 1986 the Woods Fund contributed $2.6 million to a broad range of nonprofit organizations. The grant program in Chicago is focused on community organizing; public policy, particularly in the welfare-to-work field; government accountability; and efforts to improve public schools in Chicago. In Lincoln the foundation supports a variety of activities including the arts, social services and leadership development. In all, Woods has contributed more than $53 million in these two cities to community, civic, arts and educational programs.

Other appointments

Thomas J. Denny of Riverton was named Southern Illinois University's director of governmental relations effective March 2. He replaced Sharon Buchanan-McClure, who left SIU in October 1985 to become director of public affairs for the Missouri Department of Mental Health. In his new post, Denny will coordinate SIU's relations with the General Assembly and the rest of state government. He had been assistant executive director of the Illinois Community College Board since 1978, responsible for tracking all state legislation that affected Illinois' public community college system. He also served as the board's chief liaison officer to the Illinois General Assembly and the governor's office.

Carol M. Cain of Evanston was appointed manager of workers' compensation and unemployment insurance programs for the Illinois State Chamber of Commerce (ISCC) in March. Cain will advise employers on workers' compensation and unemployment insurance problems and represent the ISCC on these issues in Springfield. For the past four years she had been associate editor of Business Insurance, a weekly news magazine published by Crain Communications Inc., where she specialized in workers' compensation and other legislative, regulatory and legal issues related to insurance and employee benefits.

Smith honored as highway Engineer of the Year

Rodger Smith of Virden, a project study engineer in the Illinois Department of Transportation's (IDOT) Bureau of Location and Environment Special Studies Unit, was selected in March as the 1986 Division of Highways Engineer of the Year. Smith was chosen for the honor by Illinois director of highways Harold Monroney for his work in preparing the design study and environmental documents necessary to locate and design the access roads to serve the proposed Diamond Star plant near Bloomington-Normal. Smith has been with IDOT since 1969.

IMSA student named Centennial Scholar

An Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy (IMSA) student, Mehmet Guler of Anna, and his chemistry teacher, Chris Kawa of Batavia, were selected to attend a three-day conference of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for a special centennial observation in Washington, D.C. Guler was one of 56 students from around the country who were named Centennial Scholars by the NIH for the February educational program. As part of its 100th anniversary observance, the NIH sponsored the program in the hope of encouraging high school students to consider careers in biomedical research.

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Enrollment at IMSA,which first opened its doors last fall, is expected to more than double next September with the admission of 300 new students. More than 700 high school students from around the state had applied for the slots at the academy in Aurora by its April 1 deadline.

Marian Central to represent Illinois in national mock trial competition

Marian Central Catholic High School in Woodstock ranked first in the 1987 Illinois State Bar Association Mock Trial Program held at Sangamon State University in March. Members of the winning team include Renee Droffkorn, Ernie Estela, Mike Freund, Steve Lalor, Rob McCormack, Kerry Reed, Rich Sullivan and Shannon Welcome. The students were coached by Kevin Dix. Two schools —Chatham-Glenwood and Hinsdale Central — tied for second place honors.

Thirty high schools from around the state participated in the program, sponsored by the Illinois State Bar Association Committee on Law-Related Education for the Public. Each team, composed of 10th, 11th and 12th grade students; performed twice, arguing both prosecution and defense positions in a hypothetical First Amendment case involving a governor suing a newspaper for libel.

As the winning team, the Marian Central students and their coach will represent Illinois in the national mock trial program set for May 16-23 in Washington, D.C. Major expenses will be paid by the bar association.

Deaths: former Gov. Shapiro

• Former Illinois Gov. Samuel Shapiro, 79, of Kankakee, died March 16 at home. Shapiro, a Democrat, served 14 years in the legislature, followed by seven years as lieutenant governor, then became governor in May 1968 when Otto Kerner resigned to accept a federal judgeship. Shapiro was defeated in the general election that fall by Republican Richard B. Ogilvie. Shapiro returned to his home in Kankakee, resuming his law practice. He started out as city attorney in 1933, and was elected Kankakee County state's attorney in 1936.

As lieutenant governor, Shapiro presided over the state Senate, and in 1963, the leaders of both parties presented him with an "On The Level" trophy to honor his even-handed manner. He was credited with playing a major role during Gov. Adlai E. Stevenson's administration when the state enacted its first mental health code. His interest and advocacy in this area were honored later when the mental health facility in Kankakee was named the Shapiro Developmental Center. He was also a charter member of the Illinois Issues Board, where he served until 1983.

At his death, Gov. James R. Thompson issued the following statement: "Illinois has lost a distinguished public servant, a man with a strong interest in government and a dedication to delivering the best possible services to people throughout this state.... We came to office from opposing political parties, but Sam Shapiro put aside party differences to work with this Republican governor for the betterment of the state. In addition to offering advice on an informal basis, he also served as co-chairman of the Election Reform Commission in 1983. Although he left office 18 years ago, Sam Shapiro did not leave public life... He proved that he still had much to offer the people of Illinois and he will be missed."

• Former state Rep. C.L. McCormick, 67, of Vienna died March 1 in Metropolis of an apparent heart attack. McCormick, a Republican noted for his rousing speeches on behalf of his southern Illinois district, served in the Illinois House from 1957 to 1975 and from 1981 to 1983.