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Officers and Directors of The Public Access Project

Revised, November 1, 1996.

Officers and Directors of Public Access

Using the model commonly adopted by many civic organizations, Public Access is governed by an Operating Board of Directors with the advice of an Advisory Board of Directors. The Boards are currently in formation. While persons who are currently public officials (or active candidates for office) are ineligible to serve on the Operating Board, they may serve on the Advisory Board. Public Access is made carefully non-partisan by being governed by Boards which are scrupulously designed to be thoroughly multi-partisan. In addition, Public Access attempts to be fully sensitive to all segments of the Illinois community through a Board membership of noteworthy cultural and ethnic diversity. Board recruitment remains ongoing. Below is a listing of the persons who have volunteered to serve on the Boards to date. The affiliation listed is for purposes of identification only and does not necessarily imply an endorsement of Public Access by their employer.

Operating Board of Directors


Jerome B. Meites

Attorney

McDermott, Will & Emery


____________________ Chairman Richard K. Means
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C.E.O. - General Counsel
Vice-Chairman Terry Rader

Community Activist Ted A. Knutson
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Research Director
____________________ Gerald L. Jaecks
Secretary - Treasurer

Business Manager

Retired, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Thomas J. Gradel

Communications Director




Joseph A. Morris Brian A. Rankin David Starrett
Attorney

Morris, Rathnau & De La Rosa

United Republican Fund

Attorney

American Portable Telecom

43rd Ward Democratic Party

Legislative Consultant

Advocacy Associates


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Advisory Board of Directors

Dick W. Simpson Edmund J. Rooney Alexander Polikoff
University of Illinois at Chicago

Former Chicago Alderman

Professor Emeritus, Loyola University

President, Illinois Freedom of Information Council

Business and Professional People for the Public Interest (BPI)



Herbert M. Kraus Rob Warden ____________________
Herbert M. Kraus & Co.

Public Relations

Writer, Former Publisher

Chicago Lawyer Magazine

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Martin J. Oberman
Attorney ____________________ ____________________
Former Chicago Alderman


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