Village Trustee
Term: 2017 - 2021
Past Term: 2015-2017
Education
Valparaiso University, Bachelor of Arts in Journalism with a minor in Business, 1983
Occupation
Retired from a career in non-profit public relations and marketing communications
Family
Joanne has been a resident of Buffalo Grove since 1988. She and her husband, Chuck, are the parents of Andrew and Kylie.
Current Village Appointments
Planning and Zoning Commission
Health Commission
Electrical Commission
Past Appointments
Buffalo Grove Days Committee
Arts Commission
Emergency Management Agency
Liaison to
Buffalo Grove Park District
School District 21
Legislative Committee for the Northwest Municipal Conference
Membership & Other Public Services
Board Member of GiveNKind - a Buffalo Grove-based nonprofit that is changing giving by creating socially and environmentally sustainable connections between donors and nonprofits.
Parent Teacher Organization Executive Board - District 102, 1999 - 2002
Executive Council - Hope Lutheran Church, 2000 - 2002
Youth Committee - Hope Lutheran Church, 2005 - 2016
50th Anniversary Committee - Editor of 88-page history book, 2005 - 2008
Band Board - Stevenson High School, 2010 - 2013
Planning and Zoning Commission, 2011 - 2015
Buffalo Grove Days Committee - Marketing Sub-Committee, 2011 - 2015
Buffalo Grove Days Parade Announcer, 2012 - 2014
Mutual Ministry Committee Chair - Hope Lutheran Church, 2016- present
Mission, Outreach and Membership Committee - Hope Lutheran Church, 2017 - 2018
Quotes
"I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him." ~Abraham Lincoln
"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly so that his place shall never be with those timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat." ~Teddy Roosevelt