{"id":2026,"date":"2016-05-05T11:57:37","date_gmt":"2016-05-05T17:57:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cookcountypd.org\/?p=2026"},"modified":"2016-05-05T11:57:37","modified_gmt":"2016-05-05T17:57:37","slug":"candidate-colleen-gorman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/2016\/05\/05\/candidate-colleen-gorman\/","title":{"rendered":"Candidate Colleen Gorman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My name is Colleen Gorman, and I am running for the position of Executive at Large. Currently, I am assigned to the felony trial division at 26<sup>th<\/sup> and California.\u00a0 My preceding assignments include child protection and misdemeanor court.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to being hired by the Public Defender\u2019s Office, I began my career as an attorney for the Speaker of the House in Springfield, drafting bills and shepherding them through the legislative process. The negotiating skills I acquired through this experience provide me with a solid background for working with management and the County Board.<\/p>\n<p>When I started at our Office, over 6 years ago, I immediately became active in our Union and trained as a Steward within my first few months.\u00a0 I have had continued participation with the union throughout my career.<\/p>\n<p>I believe it is important for new and different people to work in leadership positions in order to bring fresh perspectives into our office. I believe that I can bring new, creative &#8220;outside the box&#8221; ideas that will further strengthen our Union and Office.<\/p>\n<p>If elected, I will work to continue to improve the transparency of the union\u2019s work on behalf of its members.\u00a0 I will be a resource for members to come to for help finding answers on issues such as leaves of absence, union benefits, grievance policy and others.\u00a0 I will have an open door policy and if I don\u2019t know the answer I will find it.<\/p>\n<p>Please vote for Colleen Gorman for Executive at Large!!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My name is Colleen Gorman, and I am running for the position of Executive at Large. Currently, I am assigned to the felony trial division at 26th and California.\u00a0 My preceding assignments include child protection and misdemeanor court. Prior to being hired by the Public Defender\u2019s Office, I began my career as an attorney for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2026\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}