Staff Council election results, new officers announced

The new councilors will begin their three-year terms in April.

Administrative/Academic

• Charles Eastham, computer consultant, College of Medicine, a current Staff Council   member elected to a second term;
  
  
• Susan Felker, director, Henry B. Tippie College of Business undergraduate   programs office;
  
  
• David P. Fitzgerald, senior career adviser, Career Development Services;
  
  
• Donna Hirst, head of Library Automation, a current councilor elected to a second term;
  
  
• Cheryl Reardon, administrative associate, Department of Physics and Astronomy;
  
  
• Mona Shaw, director of communications, Division of Performing Arts;
  
  
• Amy Welter, senior accountant, Internal Audit;
  
  
• Dongwang Liu, assistant director of International Programs in the Center for Asian and Pacific Studies, will be appointed to serve the unexpired term of a former Staff Council member. The term runs until April 2003.
  
  

Professional Health Care/Nursing

• Jan Christensen, nurse manager, nursing, and an incumbent staff councilor;
  
  
• Donna Muller, hospital human resource specialist, UIHC Staff Relations, an incumbent Staff Council member;
  
  
• Jeanette Wigim, nurse manager, nursing services.
  
  

Special Services (merit supervisory exempt/confidential)

• Vicki L. Brown, secretary IV, pathology;
  
  
• Pamela Kacena, library assistant IV, media services.

J. David Martin, head of the Business Library, was elected vice president/president-elect at the Staff Council meeting on March 14. Ella Born, a research assistant in Jeff Fields’ lab, was elected secretary. The new president of Staff Council is Pat Arkema, administrative assistant, Outcomes and Resource Management, General Hospital.

Staff Council represents approximately 4,000 non-bargaining professional and scientific and merit supervisory exempt/confidential staff members. As a University-wide representative body, Staff Council members promote communication among staff, central administration, Faculty Senate, and UI Student Government.

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