Next up at Corporate ClubWednesday, September 08, 2010
11:30am Registration | 12 noon Luncheon and Program featuring:
JAMES C. RODDEY, Former Allegheny County Chief Executive
RUSS PRY, Summit County Executive
BILL MASON, Cuyahoga County Prosecutor
moderator:
LEON BIBB, Emmy Award-Winning Anchor, NewsChannel 5
$30 per person / $200 per table of (8) eight.
This is one event you don't want to miss -- register online today!
HONORABLE JAMES C. RODDEY
Principal, McCrory & McDowell LLC
James C. Roddey served as Allegheny County’s First Chief Executive from 1999 to 2004. He is a graduate of Texas Christian University and a former Captain in the U.S. Marine Corps. His fifty plus year business career has included the Presidencies of Turner Communication Corp., Rollins Communications Corp., Wexford Health Sources (a nationwide provider of specialized health services), as well as the Presidencies or Chairmanships of six other companies. Mr. Roddey served as a Director of 5 publicly held corporations and as President of two national, industry trade organizations.
Active in civic, community and governmental affairs, Mr. Roddey has served on the boards of thirty such organizations, twelve of which he chaired. Mr. Roddey has received more than 60 local, state and national awards from a variety of governmental, industry, civic, educational and non-profit organizations, including 3 Honorary Doctorates a Distinguished Alumnus Award and was selected as Pittsburgh Man of the Year.
RUSS PRY, Summit County Executive, serves as the chief budgetary officer of county government, with an annual budget of over $570 million.
Since being appointed to the position of Summit County Executive, Russ Pry has focused a great amount of his efforts on job creation and job retention. Mr. Pry, along with city and state public officials, was successful at keeping the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company and Bridgestone Firestone in the City of Akron, an effort that saved over 4,000 jobs in Summit County.
In addition to keeping big name employers in the county, Executive Pry’s Economic Development Task Force has retained an additional 3,427 jobs in the community and created 3,746 new employment opportunities for our local work force.
In addition to improving local economic development, Summit County Executive Russell M. Pry has committed to constructing a new Summit County Veterans Service Commission Center and a new Summit County Division of Animal Control facility in Summit County.
BILL MASON has served as Cuyahoga County Prosecutor since 1999. As Prosecuting Attorney of Ohio’s largest county, his office handles more than 25,000 felony cases annually, and he serves as the county’s legal adviser.
Mason was one of the first in the nation to implement a community based prosecution model. To protect children, he established Operation Child Protect, a joint partnership with the FBI, and is the chair of Ohio’s Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force. He is working on creating a crime lab and has secured funding to solve cold cases.
He chairs the Great Lakes Energy Development Task Force and has been engaged in reforming the county’s justice system and COUNTY GOVERNMENT. Mason served as the President of the Ohio Prosecuting Attorneys Association from 2004 to 2005. He co-authored “Dr. Sam Sheppard on Trial: Case Closed.” The novel is based on his experience as prosecutor in the 2000 wrongful imprisonment lawsuit.
He is married, has four children, and is the 10th child in a family of 16 children.
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