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Linda
Brookhart: Springfield
Executive
Director
State
Universities Annuitants Association
Advisory Council
Higher Education Committee
The State
Universities Annuitants Association (SUAA) provides the framework
for a unified message dedicated to preserving and protecting a
strong public pension system, healthcare benefits, and the general
well-being of its membership.
SUAA advocates on behalf of all faculty and staff of public
universities and community colleges - both retired and current
employees - their spouses and survivors, those who are participants
and beneficiaries of the State Universities Retirement System
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Brad McMillan:
Peoria
Institute for
Principled Leadership in Public Service
Advisory
Council Civic Culture Committee
Brad McMillan is
the Executive Director of the Institute for Principled Leadership in
Public Service at Bradley University. This institute, designed
to educate ethical, collaborative, and bipartisan leaders while
providing students experiences leading to successful careers in
public service, is a partnership between Bradley University and the
Dirksen Congressional Center.
Prior to his
current position, Brad was District Chief of Staff for U.S.
Representative Ray LaHood. He was responsible for supervising
three district offices and serving as a liaison in the 18th
District's 20 counties. He has also worked with several law
firms, the Illinois Supreme Court, and the Illinois Appellate Court
of the Third District. He was appointed by the Illinois
Supreme Court to serve on the Character and Fitness Committee of the
Third Judicial District.
Brad holds a law
degree from Southern Illinois University School of Law and a
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Jim Nowlan:
Urbana
University of
Illinois Institute of Government and Public Affairs
Advisory Council
Higher Education Committee
Jim Nowlan is
a senior fellow at the Institute of Government and Public Affairs
and an adjunct professor of public policy at Knox College. He was
president of the Taxpayers' Federation of Illinois from 1991 to
1994.
Professor
Nowlan considers himself a jack-of-all-trades in government and
politics. Former Illinois Governor James Thompson called on him to
take over troubled state agencies on three occasions and to assist
his administration in eight different capacities.
He was elected
to the Illinois House of Representatives in 1968, at age 26. Four
years later Governor Richard B. Ogilvie asked Professor Nowlan to be
his running mate as the Republican candidate for lieutenant
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David Yepsen:
SIU Carbondale
Paul Simon Public Policy Institute,
Director
Advisory Council
Higher Education Committee
David Yepsen became director of the Paul Simon Public Policy
Institute at Southern Illinois University Carbondale on April 1,
2009. Previously, he had a 34 year career with the Des Moines
Register serving as the paper's chief political writer, political
editor and political columnist.
He is a native of Jefferson, Iowa and is a 1972 graduate of the
University of Iowa. He has also done graduate work in journalism
and mass communication at Iowa State University and in 1985 earned a
Masters in Public Administration (MPA) degree from Drake University.
In 1989, he was a fellow at the Shorenstein Center on the Press,
Politics and Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. In 2008,
he was a fellow at the Institute of Politics at Harvard where he led
a study group on the nation's presidential selection processes.
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