WIB Board

Composition of the Local Board

Members of the Local Board

A local Workforce Investment Board must be made up of at least a majority of private sector (business) representatives and public partners. The bylaws of the Workforce Investment Board of Southeast Missouri require that there be two (2) members representing businesses from each of the thirteen counties in the Southeast Region. Following is the current list of business members of the Workforce Investment Board of Southeast Missouri:

County Represented

Bollinger County

Steven Gray
Donnia Besher

Cape Girardeau County

J. J. Williamson
Marsha Haskell

Dunklin County

Charles Dierks
Larry Swindle

Iron County

Karl Snider
Vacant

Madison County

John Moorman
John Singleton

Mississippi County

Vacant
F. R. ‘Buz’ Sutherland

New Madrid County

Glen Medlin
Pansy Stafford

Pemiscot County

Jane Ellen Lazenby
Kathy Sanders

Perry County

K. Kelly McKerrow
Karen Sides

St. Francois County

Sheri Graham
Regina Streans

Ste. Genevieve County

Robert Roth
Vacant

Scott County

Larry Tetley
Johnny Ray Conklin

Stoddard County

Vacant
Julian Steiner

One (1) representatives of local Education Entities, as follows:

Education Institution

Cape Career & Technical Center
Rich Payne

Two (2) representatives of Labor Organizations, as follows:

IBEC Local #1
Bill Walz

Carpenters District Council
Bruce Bird

Two (2) representatives of Community Based Organizations (CBOs), as follows:

Susanna Wesley Famliy Learning Center
Dr. Martha Ellen Black

UMOS Statewide Missouri
Sandra Self

One (1) representatives of Economic Development, as follows:

Ameren UE
Glenn (Skip) Smallwood

Seven (7) mandated One-Stop Career Center Partners, as follows:

Bill Bunch, East Missouri Action Agency

Bob Mott, Experience Works

Amy Jones, UniTec Adult Education and Literacy Center

Janet Childers, Missouri Division of Vocational Rehabilitation

Sam Cooper, Mingo Job Corps

David Wright, MO Department of Labor and Industrial Relations

Don Rahm, Division of Workforce Development

Other individuals or representatives of entities as the Chief Elected Official in the local area might determine to be appropriate may be appointed. Our WIB has two (2) such members seated by special appointment from their county’s presiding commissioner and approved by the Chief Local Elected Official, as follows:

A. C. Sullivan, St. Francois County

Mitch Robinson, Cape Girardeau County

Currently, there are 38 members of the Workforce Investment Board of Southeast Missouri.