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4 • Milwaukee County Post • November 9, 2018 Alumna gives Marquette's College of Nursing $1 million MILWAUKEE — The Marquette University College of Nursing is the recipient of an estate gift of $1 million from Barbara Regan, a 1959 alumna of the College of Nursing. The money will be used to fund scholarships for undergraduate and graduate nurs- ing students. Regan and her late husband, Michael Regan, M.D., a three-time Marquette graduate, met as students when they were working in the delivery room at St. Joseph Hospital in Milwaukee, helping a patient struggling through labor. The couple married in 1960 and left Milwaukee for small towns in the Carolinas, where Michael collected data on polio for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Barbara administered vacci- nations. "I wanted to honor what would have been my 50th wedding anniversary and could think of no better way than to help the future nurse leaders in our community receive a Marquette nursing education," Regan said. WEEK IN REVIEW STATE AND LOCAL STORIES OF INTEREST County Board adopts expungement reform MILWAUKEE — The Milwaukee County Board unanimously adopted Supervisor Sequanna Taylor's resolution calling for the Wisconsin Legislature to reform and expand upon current expungement laws by adopting several recommendations of the Wisconsin Policy Forum. Taylor's resolution calls for reform of laws and practices relating to the sealing of criminal records that make it difficult for people to obtain employment. "I am pleased that every member of the county board can see the economic urgency of this issue. In a city with one of the highest unemployment rates and which is known as the worst place in the country to raise a black child, adding a conviction to these other fac- tors makes it extraordinarily difficult for a person re-entering socie- ty to gain lawful employment and obtain life's basic necessities," Taylor said. The Wisconsin Policy Forum recently issued a report on Wisconsin's expungement laws and noted that "Wisconsin appears to have a stricter expungement law than all of its neighboring states except Iowa." Taylor's resolution asks the Milwaukee County district attorney and his staff to advocate for expungement as a default policy in proceedings as well as state and federal officials from the area to develop or support similar policies. Complaint Milwaukee woman used stolen ID to rent car WAUKESHA — A Milwaukee woman allegedly allowed a friend to use stolen identity information to rent a car from a Brookfield rental agency, according to a criminal com- plaint filed Tuesday in Waukesha County Circuit Court. Terrica Thomas, 25, was charged with unauthorized use of an entity's identifying information and is due in court Nov. 26. A criminal complaint said police were called to AVIS Rental Car in Brookfield in January about a Volkswagen Jetta that was due to be returned to the agency by Dec. 22, 1017. It was rented using credit information belonging to a barbershop quartet group, but leaders of the group denied ever being in Brookfield or renting a car there. The investigation turned to Thomas, who previously had rented a car to a person using another person's identity, the complaint said. The person who had given Thomas false information previously also rented the Jetta and Thomas rented the car to him knowing the credit info was not legitimate, the complaint said. Sanfelippo wins re-election bid to 15th Assembly NEW BERLIN — Republican state Rep. Joseph Sanfelippo defeated Democratic chal- lenger Lillian Cheesman in the 15th Assembly District, which encompasses portions of New Berlin and West Allis. The vote total, according to unofficial results, was incumbent Joseph Sanfelippo with 11,979 votes, or 55 percent, and Lillian Cheesman with 9,966 votes, or 45 percent. Sanfelippo is a six-year incumbent in the state Assembly and pre- viously owned and operated his own landscaping business for 20 years. Throughout this campaign season, Sanfelippo said his priorities included improving access to affordable health care, allocating more funding to public schools, holding the line on taxes and stop- ping welfare fraud. "Wisconsin has done a great job of laying the groundwork for an economic ATM machine; now we need to make sure we fund it in order to benefit from the withdrawals for years to come," Sanfelippo wrote in a past letter explaining his position. Satellite service foils auto theft WAUKESHA — A Milwaukee man has been charged with auto theft after a satellite- based service tracked a stolen car to a Brookfield store last winter. Elton Kelly, 36, was charged Tuesday in Waukesha County Circuit Court with operat- ing an auto without consent and is due in court Nov. 26. A criminal complaint said police were dispatched to Target, 12725 W. Bluemound Road, on Feb. 13, after the OnStar service reported a customer's stolen car was at that location. There, officers found Kelly in a passenger seat; he told police he was alone but was in the passenger's seat looking for a dropped phone. The car was reported as stolen by National Car Rental Services based at Mitchell Field in Milwaukee and towed to that location. Police encountered a woman at the store who said she was driving the car after Kelly allowed her to. She stated she believed he had rented the car. Mount Mary gets $3 million grant for low-income students MILWAUKEE — Mount Mary University will use a $3 million grant it received from the federal government to support the needs of low-income students. The grant from the U.S. Department of Education will be used to help increase grad- uation rates for low-income students who enter college needing developmental support in English and math. According to the announcement, the Title III grant from the Department of Education's Strengthening Institutions Program will build on existing student pro- grams to increase first-year retention, decrease time to completion and increase the per- centage of students who persist to graduate within four years. Corporation counsel hires four new attorneys MILWAUKEE — The Milwaukee County Office of Corporation Counsel announced Monday the hiring of four new attorneys and recognition for Corporation Counsel Margaret Daun. Daun has been recognized by the Wisconsin Law Journal and Daily Reporter for her dedication to diversity and inclusion. The office has named attorney Anne Berleman Kearney, a renowned Wisconsin litiga- tor, as its new deputy corporation counsel. Kearney has more than 25 years of experience representing municipalities, companies, associations and individuals in complex mat- ters in federal and state courts. Most recently she was the principal of Appellate Consulting Group, which she formed after serving as senior counsel at Foley & Lardner. Mary Nell Regan and David Farwell have each been hired as assistant corporation counsel. Regan brings more than 24 years of experience advising and representing municipal- ities and individuals in complex litigation, including six years in private practice, 15 years with the Milwaukee City Attorney's Office and three years as the appointed execu- tive director of Milwaukee's Fire and Police Commission. Farwell began his legal career as an associate in the Milwaukee office of Foley & Lardner LLP, where he was a member of the real estate practice group. After leaving Foley, Farwell spent nearly eight years as in-house counsel to Milwaukee-based ManpowerGroup Inc., where he negotiated and drafted complex commercial sales con- tracts. He also served as adviser and liaison for multiple business units and internal functional areas. Now serving as senior office manager for the Office of Corporation Counsel, Jessica Fredrickson is both an attorney and a compliance professional. She has 12 years of expe- rience in international corporations. Prior to leaving Milwaukee 10 years ago, she worked at Miller Brewing Co. and in Milwaukee's City Attorney's Office —Prosecution Division. Sanfelippo Taylor

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