Aprille Hanson
Sophronia Williams, 91, smiles Dec. 30 at her church, Our Lady of Good Counsel in Little Rock. Williams broke barriers in nursing throughout her 46-year career, becoming the first or second Black nurse at multiple hospitals.
Aprille Hanson
Sophronia Williams, 91, smiles Dec. 30 at her church, Our Lady of Good Counsel in Little Rock. Williams broke barriers in nursing throughout her 46-year career, becoming the first or second Black nurse at multiple hospitals.
Sophronia Williams does not consider herself a trailblazer. But by all accounts, from being the first Black nurse in different hospitals to her conversion to the Catholic faith, her life is one of unique blessings.
Managing Director and CEO, JEA
Jay Stowe, the new CEO of Jacksonville’s municipal water and electric utility since Nov. 30, inherited an organization cooperating in a federal grand jury probe and preparing a five-year, $2.5 billion capital investment plan.
His hiring ended a 1½-year period that saw an attempt to sell JEA to a private company, resulting in U.S. Department of Justice and City Council investigations and the firing of former CEO Aaron Zahn and his senior leadership team.
Stowe plans to repair trust within JEA while moving on plans to invest $1.6 million to modernize its its water and wastewater system.
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Illinois Supreme Court issued the following announcement on Dec. 21.
Marcia M. Meis, Director of the Administrative Office of the Illinois Courts, announced that the Thirteenth Judicial Circuit judges voted to select Scott M. Belt as an associate judge of the Thirteenth Judicial Circuit.
Mr. Belt received his undergraduate degree in 1986 from Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, Illinois, and his Juris Doctor in 1990 from Western Michigan University Cooley Law School in Lansing, Michigan. Mr. Belt is currently affiliated with Belt, Dearth and Associates in Morris, Illinois.
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Karsonya Whitehead, a professor of communications and African American studies at Loyola University of Maryland, will serve as the inaugural director of the university’s Karson Institute for Race, Peace & Social Justice. She joined the faculty at the university in 2009.
Professor Whitehead is a graduate of Lincoln University of Pennsylvania, where she majored in history. She holds a master’s degree in international peace studies from the University of Notre Dame and a Ph.D. in language literature and culture from the University of Maryland Baltimore County.
Tomaz Cunningham, an associate professor of foreign languages at Jackson State University in Mississippi, was given the added duties as interim director of JSU Global in the Division of Academic Affairs.