Marcia Willhite Named IEPA Bureau Of Water Chief
For Immediate Release
April 24, 2001 |
Contact: Dennis McMurray
(217) 785-1871
TDD: (217) 782-9143 |
Springfield, Ill. -- Marcia Willhite will become the Chief of
the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency's Bureau of Water, effective
May 16, Illinois EPA Director Tom Skinner announced today.
"Marcia's wide-ranging environmental background and experience dealing
with the environmental and regulated communities should be of great value
to the Agency not only on water-related matters, but also as we face the
increasing number of multi-media issues," Director Skinner said.
Willhite is Assistant Chief of the Environmental Health Division of the
Lincoln-Lancaster County Health Department in Lincoln, Nebraska. She has
been with that agency since November 1993. She also is national president
of the Association of Local Air Pollution Control Officials. Previously
Willhite was an environmental toxicologist with the Texas Natural Resource
Conservation Commission and a sanitarian with the Bell County Health Department
in Temple, Texas.
She earned a B.S. degree in wildlife biology from Eastern Kentucky University
and an M.S. in toxicology from the University of Kentucky. Willhite will
replace previous Bureau of Water Chief James Park , who retired at the
end of 2000 after 29 years with Illinois EPA. Illinois EPA Deputy Director
Bernie Killian has served as acting bureau chief during the interim period.
Illinois EPA primarily operates through three Bureaus --- Air, Land and
Water. The Bureau of Water has about 330 employees and administers a variety
of state and federal programs and initiatives to protect and enhance the
quality of Illinois' water resources and public water supplies.
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