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Apr

16

Yeah Winston Ford: law school classmate becomes Ohio stimulus overseer


From the Plain Dealer blog:

Winston Ford, formerly general counsel for the Ohio Department of Health, will now monitor how the state manages its billions in federal stimulus dollars.

Ford began work this week as a deputy general inspector. He will oversee and monitor how state agencies distribute the funds, review contracts for projects and investigate any allegations of wrongdoing, said Inspector General Thomas Charles.

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Ford was raised in New York and earned his law degree in 1991 from Case Western Reserve University. He has worked for the state since 1996, when he joined the Ohio Attorney General’s office. He has been at the Ohio Department of Health since 2004 and has been general counsel for that agency since October, 2007. Charles said he will earn $89,000 a year. 

That is a real public interest law salary, for better or worse.  Good luck to you, Winston.  I remember him as a very even-tempered, cool as a cucumber kind of student, always had a smile on.

Think there’s been hanky-panky or just something you don’t like going on with the federal stimulus money in Ohio? You can file a complaint here.

And by the way – you all read that? He was raised in NY, earned his law degree here and basically just stayed.  Like me and like many others who come to Ohio for the higher education.  And trust me, the year we graduated? It was a terrible year to find a job in the legal profession.

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By Jill Miller Zimon at 3:04 pm April 16th, 2009 in Economy, Government, Law, leadership, Ohio 

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