Venice Community Unit School District #3 Financial Oversight Panel
Rudolph G. Wilson, chair
Jed Deets
Mary C. Kane
Rudy Wilson, Assistant Provost for Cultural and
Social Diversity with Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville,
also holds rank of Associate Professor of Secondary Education in
the Department of Curriculum and Instruction. He has been chairperson
of the English Department at Claremont and was Master Teacher of
English for the State of California. He served for 18 years on the
Edwardsville School Board and 6 years as President. He has served
as President of the Piasa Health Care and as Chairperson for the
Department of Curriculum and Instruction at SIUE.
Wilson has been recognized for his leadership and contributions
in many areas. He is the recipient of the SIUE's Teaching Excellence
Award, The Hudlin Award for Humanistic Teaching and the Great Teacher
Award, Martin Luther King, Jr. Humanitarian Award, The Kimmel Leadership
Center Aware for Faculty who contribute greatly to the community
and was named Educator of the Year by the St. Louis American newspaper.
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Dr. Jed Deets has served the Education Community
as a regional coordinator, principal, superintendent, and assistant
regional superintendent, and was most recently a school superintendent
in Cahokia School District #187 after being Regional Superintendent
of Schools in St. Clair county.
A native of Illinois, Dr Deets further serves the community in
his additional roles as an Advisory Member for Southern Illinois
University and as Board Member and Treasurer for Touchette Regional
Hospital.
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Mary C. Kane is employed as an investment banker
at Stifel, Nicolaus & Company, Inc. She is responsible for initiating,
and currently leading, Stifel's Public Finance Office serving central
and southern Illinois. She worked for Southwestern Illinois Development
Authority as its Executive Director. In this position she guided
the issuance of over $150 million in economic development bonds,
the establishment of a multi-bank Community Development Corporation
providing loans to small businesses and the acquisition of land
for the MetroLink Light Rail.
She has been executive Director of a not-for profit economic development
and regional promotion group comprised of major business, industry,
labor, government and education leaders of the southwestern Illinois
counties of Madison and St. Clair. She has also been the Director
of Administration and Community Development Director for Madison
County. Kane's honors include the Albert Cassen Community Leadership
Award, St. Louis Women of Achievement, and 15th Anniversary Community
Leadership Award in St. Louis.
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