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Organization

President The incumbent Governor of Illinois is the President of the Academy.

Chancellor The Chancellor is the principal executive officer of the Academy. He or she and the other officers, except for the President, are elected by the Regents and serve four-year terms.

Vice-Chancellor The Vice-Chancellor shall, in the absence of the Chancellor, perform his or her duties.

Executive Director The Executive Director shall be the principal administrative officer and shall perform such other duties as may be assigned to him or her by the President, the Chancellor or the Board of Regents.

Treasurer The Treasurer administers the financial matters of the Academy.

Secretary The Secretary certifies all minutes of the meetings of the Academy.

Regents for Life At the discretion of the Regents, a former Governor may be elected a Regent for Life, in recognition of distinguished service to the Academy.

Regents Eighteen Regents comprise the Board of Directors of the Academy. Regents are Trustees elected by their fellow Trustees to serve six-year terms on the Board. The Regents set Academy policies to be implemented by the Chancellor, fill vacancies on the Board of Regents from the Trustees and oversee the affairs of the Academy.

Emeritus Members A former Regent or a former General Trustee or a former Rector who has served in office for ten years or more may, at the discretion of the General Trustees, be declared a Regent Emeritus or a General Trustee Emeritus or a Rector Emeritus in recognition of particularly distinguished service to the Academy.

Trustees There are three types of Trustees:

General Trustees - Of the sixty General Trustees, twenty are appointed by the President of the Academy or by the current Trustees every two years. They serve six year terms.

Academic Trustees The Academic Trustees are the chief executive officers of all degree-granting institutions of higher learning in the State of Illinois, plus the presidents of multi-campus four year institutions and a representative of the Illinois Community College Board which offer a course of instruction leading to an academic or professional degree upon completion of a four-year course of instruction.

Rectors The Rectors of the ten categories of endeavor serve as Trustees ex officio.

Officers

The Honorable Pat Quinn, President
Thomas S. Johnson, Chancellor*
Gayl S. Pyatt, Vice Chancellor*
Peter C. Alexander, Secretary
Ernest R. Wish, Treasurer*
John B. Simon, Chancellor Emeritus*
Julie A Kellner, Executive Director*

Regents for Life

The Honorable Jim Edgar
The Honorable George H. Ryan
The Honorable James R. Thompson
The Honorable Dan Walker

Regents

Peter C. Alexander
Peter B. Bensinger*
Marshall L. Burman*
John F. Cuneo*
The Reverend
Stanley L. Davis, Jr.
Jane Denes*
Andrea Hasten
Ethel Holladay
Thomas S. Johnson*
Dennis Lyle*
Lester H. McKeever, Jr.*
The Honorable Richard Mills
Gayl Pyatt*
William E. Shaw
John B. Simon
Donald R. Tracy*
Eric Trimble
Dia Weil*
Ernest R. Wish*
W. Russell Withers, Jr.*

General Trustees

William Bennett*
John L. Borling
Major General-USAF (ret)
Sunny Chico
Raymond M. Chin*
Margaret A. Cline
James G. Gidwitz*
Zale Glauberman*
Sondra A. Healy
Rita P. Henneman
Julie A. Kellner*
Osvaldo Lopez
Shirley R. Madigan
Lucyna Migala
Douglas C. Mills
Delmer R. Mitchell*
Alexandra Ransburg
Shirley W. Ryan*
Marc Schulman
Courtney C. Shea
Brent Smith
Howard Sulkin*

Rectors

Steve Wentworth, Agriculture
Ashley C. Wheater, Arts & The Performing Arts
James J. O'Connor, Business & Industry
Dr. Samuel Goldman, Education
The Honorable Ronald D. Spears, Government
Jorge Ramirez, Labor
George J. Dohrmann, MD, PhD, Medicine & Science
The Reverend Kenneth Velo, Religion
The Reverend Thomas Behrens, Social Services

Emeritus Members

Judith H. Bartholf
Stanley Balzekas, Jr.
Molly Becker
Michael Butler
Ruben I. Cruz
Brooks Davis
Helen May Dickerson
Bruce Wirtz MacArthur
Marion Myerson
Wayne C. Temple

Academic Trustees

Steven C. Bahls - Augustana College
Rebecca Sherrick - Aurora University
William J. Carroll - Benedictine University
Miriam R. Pride - Blackburn College
Joanne Glasser - Bradley University
Frank G. Pogue - Chicago State University
John Johnson - Concordia University
The Reverend Dennis Hotschneider - De Paul University
Donna M. Carroll - Dominican University
William L. Perry - Eastern Illinois University
S. Alan Ray - Elmhurst College
J. David Arnold - Eureka College
Elaine P. Maimon - Governors State University
Larry Linamen - Greenville College
Axel D. Steuer - Illinois College
John L. Anderson - Illinois Institute of Technology
C. Alvin Bowman - Illinois State University
Richard F. Wilson - Illinois Wesleyan University
Wayne Bartee - Judson University
Roger J. Taylor - Knox College
Stephen D. Schutt - Lake Forest College
Brother James Gaffney, F.S.C. - Lewis University
Keith H. Ray - Lincoln Christian University
John Astroth - Lincoln College
The Reverend Michael J. Garanzini, S.J. - Loyola University Chicago
Colleen Hester - MacMurray College
James M. Dennis - McKendree College
Peggy S. Luy (Interim) - Millikin University
Mauri Ditzler - Monmouth College
Nivine Megahed - National-Louis University
Harold R. Wilde - North Central College
David L. Parkyn - North Park University
Sharon K. Hahs - Northeastern Illinois University
John G. Peters - Northern Illinois University
Morton Schapiro - Northwestern University
John C. Bowling - Olivet Nazarene University
Jonathan Palmer - Principia College
Robert J. Gervasi - Quincy University
Robert L. Head - Rockford College
Charles R. Middleton - Roosevelt University
Christine M. Wiseman - Saint Xavier University
Rita Cheng - Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Vaughn Vandegrift - Southern Illnois University Edwardsville
Robert J. Zimmer - The University of Chicago
Steven Timmermans - Trinity Christian College
Craig Williford - Trinity International University
Paula Allen-Meares - University of Illinois at Chicago
Harry Berman - University of Illinois at Springfield
Michael J. Hogan - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Michael J. Vinciguerra - University of Saint Francis
Jack Thomas - Western Illinois University
Philip Ryken - Wheaton College

At Large Academic Trustees
Michael J. Hogan - University of Illinois
Glenn Poshard - Southern Illinois University
Geoffrey S. Obrzut - Illinois Community College Board

* Sustaining Member