Illinois e-News Release

Jane Flanagan will serve as a Member of the Illinois Workforce Innovation Board.* Before being appointed as Director of the Illinois Department of Labor in 2022, Flanagan previously served as Deputy General Counsel and Deputy Chief Compliance Officer in the Office of Governor JB Pritzker. In those roles, she spearheaded several priority initiatives, including the implementation of disability access planning across state agencies, drafting pay transparency amendments to the state’s Equal Pay Act, and the development of the Governor’s Commission on Workforce Equity & Access. Prior to that, she spent six years in the Office of the Illinois Attorney General where she held the role of Labor Counsel and Assistant Attorney General before founding the Workplace Rights Bureau and serving as its first chief. A graduate of Northeastern University School of Law, Flanagan has also served as a visiting scholar at IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law’s Institute for Law and the Workplace. She began her legal career in Maryland where she represented chicken processing workers and bus drivers in wage cases at Brown, Goldstein & Levy in Baltimore before becoming counsel to the Maryland Department of Labor.

Andrew Weatherford will continue serving as Public Administrator and Public Guardian of Macon and DeWitt County.* Weatherford is owner, partner, and attorney at Johnson, Chiligiris & Weatherford. Previously, he was the Assistant State's Attorney for Macon County. Weatherford earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Millikin University, a Master of Arts degree in political science from Eastern Illinois University, and a Juris Doctorate from Indiana University School of Law.

* Appointments pending confirmation by the Illinois Senate.