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Lisa Normoyle
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Jeffrey Schmidt |
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Chair |
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- Served as a Board member for Girl Scouts - Rock River Valley as chair
- Co-chair of the GS of Northern Illinois Council Realignment Committee (CRC) and
a member of the CRC Search Committee
- Was a Girl Scout as a child in Rock River Valley Council
- Community affiliations include Special Olympics Northern Illinois and IL Art
Education Association, Rockford Roadrunners and United For Youth
Employed as an art teacher in the Rockford School District
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- Served as an officer of the Board for Girl Scouts - Sybaquay Council
- Co-chair of CRC Finance Subcommittee
- Two daughters are Girl Scouts, wife is a GS troop leader
- Community affiliations include Chicago Estate Planning Council and the Immanuel
United Church of Christ in Bartlett
- Is an attorney employed as vice-president at the American Bank and Trust
Company in St. Charles
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Scott F. McCleary |
Nancy Malek |
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Second Vice-Chair |
Treasurer |
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- Served as an officer on the Board for Girl Scouts - Fox Valley Council, Inc.
- Co-chair of CRC Finance Subcommittee and member of CRC Search and
Governance Committees
- Daughter is a Girl Scout and his wife has been a Girl Scout for 40 years
- Community affiliations include executive positions on the boards of Family
Counseling Services (Aurora), Three Fires Council Boy Scouts and the Aurora
Public Library
- Is an attorney employed as assistant regional counsel at the U.S. General
Services Administration in Chicago
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- Served as Board member for Girl Scouts - Fox Valley Council, Inc.
- GS troop leader and service team member
- Community affiliations include the Gamma Sigma Honor Society
- Holds a M.B.A. in both business administration and accounting science
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Daniel Hawkins
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Mark M. Ackerman |
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Secretary |
Director-at-Large |
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- Served as Board member for Girl Scouts - Green Hills Council
- Daughter was a Girl Scout and a GS Silver Award recipient; family members have been involved in Girl Scouts
- Community affiliations include service as a board member for the Sterling United Soccer Club (and coach), Boy Scouts, Sterling Today, Inc. and the Sauk Valley College Foundation
- Employed as an attorney and partner at Ward, Murray, Pace & Johnson, P.C. in Sterling
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- Served as a Board Member for the Girl Scout council in Rock River Valley
- Wife is a GS leader, daughter is a Girl Scout
- Community affiliations include service on the boards of the Keith School Development
and Facilities Committees, United For Youth Building Committee and the Woodward Contributors Committee
- Employed as a telecommunications administrator at Woodward Governor in Rockford
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Stephen E. Balogh
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Donna Bausman |
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Director-at-Large |
Director-at-Large |
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- Served as a Board Member for the Girl Scout council in Rock River Valley
- Served as member of Council Realignment Committee (CRC)
- Daughter was a Girl Scout and wife was a volunteer
- Community affiliations include service on the boards/committees of United Way
of Rock River Valley, Carrie Lynn Children’s Center, Inc. and Rockford Park
District’s Joint Museum Strategic Planning Committee
- Employed as an attorney, partner and director at Williams McCarthy, LLP in Rockford
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- Had an older sister who was a Girl Scout as a child
- Community affiliations include Northwest Illinois Workforce Investment Board, Whiteside County Community Health Clinic Governing Council, Community
Coordinated Child Care (4-C) Advisory Board and the Lincoln Land American Red Cross
- Employed as a public service administrator with the Illinois Department of Human Services in Sterling
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Rosario DeLeon
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Sheryl Y. Head |
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Director-at-Large |
Director-at-Large |
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- Served as Board member for Girl Scouts - Fox Valley Council, Inc.
- Daughter is former Girl Scout
- Community affiliations include the American Public Works Association, Illinois Association of Code Enforcement, International Code Council, Aurora East
Educational Foundation and Rebuilding Together Aurora
- Employed as director of Neighborhood Standards for the City of Aurora
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- Served as Board member for the Girl Scout Council of Buckeye Trails and a member of the Board and the Nominating Committee for GS of Western Ohio. Most recently served on the Board for Girl Scouts - Rock River Valley
- Was a Girl Scout as a child and her daughter is a former Girl Scout
- Community affiliations include the American Association of University Women, Rockford Women’s Club, Health Care Compliance Association, Cancer Association of Champaign County and the Mendelssohn Center for Performing Arts.
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John Kaney
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John Kavonda |
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Director-at-Large |
Director-at-Large |
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- Served as an officer on the Board for Girl Scouts - Rock River Valley
- Assisted wife as GS leader and coordinated girls’ work on religious awards
- Community affiliations include the Religious Education team and Parish Council at St. Bridget Church in Love’s Park, Council of Administration at Boylan and the Boy Scouts of America
- Employed as director of Powder Manufacturing at Bay Valley Foods, a division of Treehouse Foods LLC, in Rockford
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- Member of the CRC Human Resources Subcommittee
- Community affiliations include the Society for Human Resource Management, Batavia Interfaith Food Pantry, 2009 Tri-Cities CROP Walk Organizing Committee, Oberlin College Alumni Class Agent and St. Charles High School Women’s Lacrosse Team
- Self-employed as a human resources consultant in Batavia
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June M. Kubasiak
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Sheri G. Lacy |
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Director-at-Large |
Director-at-Large |
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- Served on the Board and Nominating Committee for Girl Scouts - Sybaquay Council
- Girl Scout as a child, parents involved as volunteers
- Community affiliations include Eastern Star, Ladies of the Moose and St. Catherine’s Church of Genoa
- Employed as office manager in the Division of Public Administration for Northern Illinois University in DeKalb
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- Served as Board member for Girl Scouts - Sybaquay Council
- Was a Girl Scout as a child and now a lifetime member
- Community affiliations include United Way of Elgin, Elgin Police Department, Citizens Advisory Council, City of Elgin Human Relations Commission, Martin Luther King Planning Committee and Elgin Community College Citizens Facilitating Team (ENCORE)
- Self-employed as a professional consultant in Elgin
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Kellyn Lawrence
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Tim Lund |
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Director-at-Large |
Director-at-Large |
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- Served as a Board member for Girl Scouts - Sybaquay Council as chair
- Co-chair of the CRC Communications Subcommittee, CEO Search Committee
- Was a Girl Scout as a child and GS troop leader for her daughters and a First-Aid/CPR trainer for Sybaquay Council
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- Oldest daughter was a Girl Scout for several years and his younger daughter is currently a Girl Scout
- Affiliations include Storage Networking Industry Association as a SNIA Qualified Sales Professional
- Is a VMWare Certified Professional, currently employed as a storage specialist at Dell, Inc.
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Dr. Michael T. Peddle
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Kate Ramsay |
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Director-at-Large |
Director-at-Large |
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- Served as a Board member for Girl Scouts - Sybaquay Council
- Member of the CRC Finance Subcommittee
- Daughter was a Girl Scout and is currently an adult volunteer and wife is a GS trainer and has been a national delegate for Sybaquay Council
- Community affiliations include the American Society for Public Administration, Association of Budgeting and Financial Management, Midcontinent Regional Science Association and International Economic Development Council
- Employed as an associate professor of Public Administration and assistant chair in the Department of Political Science at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb
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- Served as Board member for Girl Scouts - Green Hills Council as secretary
- Was a Girl Scout as a child and served as a Girl Scout Cadette leader while working at a Navy base in Nevada
- Employed as marketing manager at the Cornerstone Credit Union in Freeport
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James K. Say
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Jojy Schless |
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Director-at-Large |
Director-at-Large |
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- Served as Board member for Girl Scouts - Green Hills Council
- Daughter is a Girl Scout and GS Silver Award recipient
- Community affiliations include CFA Institute, CFA Society of Chicago Quad City Estate Planning Council, National Association of Parliamentarians, Sons of the American Revolution and Boy Scouts Blackhawk Area Council
- Is an attorney employed as vice-president and relationship manager at Citizens Financial Advisors in Princeton
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- Served as Board member for Girl Scouts - Fox Valley Council, Inc.
- Is her daughter’s GS troop leader
- Community affiliations include CMSR as a certified medical staff recruiter, Lazarus House, Living Well Cancer Resource Center and Relay for Life Kane County
- Is a licensed certified social worker and certified addictions and drug counselor employed as a physician recruiter/LEAN Process Improvement at Delnor Hospital in Geneva
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Theresa A. Stack
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Rhonda Sunden |
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Director-at-Large |
Director-at-Large |
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- Was employed at Girl Scouts - Fox Valley Council, Inc. as an executive staff member and most recently served on the Board and as a national delegate for the council
- Was a Girl Scout as a child and her mother was her GS leader
- Community affiliations include Open Hands Preschool, Shabbona Elementary School
and the Boy Scouts
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- Served as Board member for Girl Scouts - Rock River Valley
- Was a Girl Scout as a child and an adult volunteer for her daughter’s GS troop
- Community affiliations include Rockford Downtown Rotary Club, Women of
Today’s Manufacturing, United Way of Rock River Valley, Junior Achievement,
Northern IL SCORE and the YMCA of Rock River Valley
- Employed as the vice-president/Commercial Lender at Alpine Bank in Rockford
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Catherine C. Veal
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Louanne
Vedra-Glisan |
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Director-at-Large |
Director-at-Large |
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- Served as Board member for Girl Scouts - Fox Valley Council, Inc.
- Community affiliations include American Association of University Women,
Associates of Fundraising Professionals, Council for Advancement and Support of Education, Community Leaders Committee, Aurora Math/Science System Subcommittee and Aurora University Institute for Collaboration
- Employed as vice-president for Strategy and Innovation at the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy® in Aurora
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- Daughters were Girl Scouts as children and granddaughter is currently a Girl Scout
- Community affiliations include Freeport Health Network Foundation, Forrestville Valley Education Foundation, Vedra Scramble for Education Committee, Illinois Association of Workforce Professionals, Arthritis Foundation and 4-H
- Employed as a field office supervisor at the Illinois Department of Employment Security
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Pamela K. Owens
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Cathy Wilcox |
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Director-at-Large |
Director-at-Large |
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- Was a Girl Scout as a girl and loved being a part of this organization
- Served as a Board member of the Greater Wisconsin Chapter Alzheimer’s Association during their merger and has over ten years of experience in fund development and is a certified fundraising executive
- Community affiliations include American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging, Catholic Women’s League of Rockford, Kiwanis Club, and Portage County Leadership Alumni Association.
- Employed as regional director of development at Provena Senior Services
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- Served as Board member of Girl Scouts – Rock River Valley and is a lifetime member
- Co-Race Director of the G.S. Thin Mint Sprint
- Was a Girl Scout as a child and has served as a troop leader and on various board committees (nominating, recognition) for G.S. – Rock River Valley
- Community affiliations included St. Rita Catholic Church and Rockford Roadrunners
- Employed as an IT Lead Analyst for Alliant Energy in Madison, WI
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Counties served by Girl Scouts of Northern Illinois include all or parts of Boone, Carroll, Cook, DeKalb, DuPage, Jo Daviess, Kane, Kendall, Lake, LaSalle, Lee, McHenry, Ogle, Stephenson, Winnebago, and Whiteside counties.

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