Tom Martin
tjmartin@illinios.edu

SAC President
Skilled Crafts/Trades classes (EEO 6)

Tom is Locksmith with Facilities and Services. He has been with the University since 1985. As a member of the Staff Advisory Council, Tom has served as vice president and as the representative to the University’s 403b review committee. He has also been involved with the Campus Charitable Fund Drive and has served as a unit leader for many years.

Chris Miller
cdmiller@illinois.edu

Executive/Administrative/Managerial classes (EEO 1&3)

Chris is a Facilities Manager for the College of Veterinary Medicine and has been with the University of Illinois for the past 15 years.

Judy Harris
jaharrs2@illinois.edu

Clerical/Secretarial classes (EEO 4)

Judy is a secretary for the International Studies Program. She has been with the University since 1998. She has served on the Staff Advisory Committee since June, 2002. She has been involved with Secretariat for several years and presently is on the scholarship committee.

Cheryl Westlund
westlund@illinois.edu

Clerical/Secretarial classes (EEO 4)

Cheryl is an Office Support Specialist with the College of Law. She has been with the University since 1996. Before joining the College of Law she worked for 12 years with U of I Extension, both off and on campus. She is active with AFSCME Local 3700, serving as an elected officer and steward. Cheryl believes in giving back to the community and has been involved in many service projects in and around the Champaign-Urbana area.

Diane Davis
ddavis5@illinois.edu

Clerical/Secretarial classes (EEO 4)

Diane Davis has worked at the University of Illinois since the 1980s. She worked for ten years as an Extra Help employee, which, she reports, gave her an opportunity to work in a number of different offices on campus. She became a permanent employee in 1996, and she is currently an Office Support Specialist at Housing - Residential Life. Diane has served on the Staff Advisory Council since 2004. During this time, she has represented the SAC on the Illini Union Board. She also serves on the Faculty Staff Assistance Program advisory committee. Diane also serves as the AFSCME 3700 Vice President and Chief Steward. Diane enjoys helping coworkers with the various challenges they might face on the job.

Lisa Miller
lcmiller@illinois.edu

Technical and Paraprofessional classes (EEO 5)

Lisa is a Library Specialist at the Main Library. She has been with the university since 1999 and has served in various positions and in various departments. Lisa is currently a Union Representative for local 698, Staff Advisory Council Secretary, and a member of the Library Social Committee.

Chet Utterback
cutterba@illinois.edu

Service/Maintenance classes (EEO 7)

Chet started at U of I September 15, 1986, as a Poultry Worker. He was promoted to Poultry Worker foreman in August, 1990, and to Supervising Farm Foreman in 2004. Chet received the Marcella M. Nance Staff Award from the College of ACES in 2002, the Chancellor’s Distinguished Staff Award in 2005, and the TYSON FOODS Support Staff Award for the Poultry Science Association in 2007. Chet and his wife Pam also serve as the staff advisors for the Illini Poultry Club. They live in rural Atwood on their 106 acre farm with their son Harlen.

Alice Dilts
adlits@illinois.edu

Service/Maintenance classes (EEO 7)

Alice is a Building Service Foreman at the Illini Union. She has been with the University since 1986. She started as a Clerk III in Purchasing for 3 years and then was a Building Service Worker in Housing Facilities for 16 years. She served one term previously on the Staff Advisory Council and is a former member of the Chancellor’s Committee on the Status of Women.

Office of OEOA

Jessica Bengtson
jbengtso@illinois.edu

Secretariat

Jessica began her tenure as a University employee with the College of ACES in 1995. She has worked for the College of Veterinary Medicine since 2000, and is a secretary in the College of Veterinary Medicine’s Office of Administrative Services. Jessica serves as a member of the Staff Advisory Council in the capacity of President-Elect to The Secretariat. In her free time, Jessica teaches ballet classes for the Champaign Park District Dance Program.

Janet Davis
jmdavis@illinios.edu

SURS and UIUC representative to the State Universities Civil Service Employee Advisory Committee (EAC)

Jan is an Office Administrator for the American Indian Studies Program /Native American House since August of 2003. She has been at UIUC since 1990. She has served on the Staff Advisory Council since 2002 as a representative of SURS. She has been on the Illini Union Board since 2006. She also serves on the State University Retirement Committee (SURS) since 2002 and the Employees Advisory Committee since 2002 and is now the Secretary for EAC since 2007. Jan was involved with The Secretariat for many years and was the President elect and President of The Secretariat from 2002-2004. She has also been the Unit Leader for the Campus Charitable Fund Drive.

Cindi Norton Williams
cindinw@illinois.edu

SURS

Cindi is a Staff Clerk at the School of Literatures, Cultures & Linguistics Business Office where she performs accounting functions for 14 departments. She has been employed at UIUC since October 1988. She has served in the past as SAC Secretary, SAC President, and representative on the Faculty/Staff Assistance Program Advisory Committee.

Barney Bryson
bdbryson@illinois.edu

UIUC representative to the State Universities Civil Service Employee Advisory Committee (EAC)

Barney joined the Facilities and Services Department (formerly Operations and Maintenance) of UIUC in 1985 as a refrigeration mechanic. He is a long standing member of the United Association of Journeymen and Apprentices of the Plumbing and Pipe Filters Local 149. He served two terms as President of the Staff Advisory Council.

Gary Fry
glfry@illinois.edu

UIUC representative to the State Universities Civil Service Employee Advisory Committee (EAC)

Gary first began working for the University of Illinois in 1990 as an Ironworker in the Operations and Maintenance Division (now called Facilities and Services). Prior to coming to the U of I, he worked for several other construction companies. He has been a member of the United Mine Workers of America since 1975; he has also been employed as an Operator of heavy equipment. He has been a member of the State Universities Civil Service Advisory Committee since 1997, and he has served on various Work Study committees established by the State Universities Civil Service System Office and on the University of Illinois Employee Advisory Committee.

Debra Hilligoss
hilligos@illinois.edu

UIUC representative to the State Universities Civil Service Employee Advisory Committee (EAC)

Debra has been with the University of Illinois since 1994. She is currently a Staff Clerk with the Department of Industrial and Enterprise Systems Engineering located in the Transportation Building.  Most recently, Debra was nominated for the 2009 Chancellor’s Distinguished Award.