THE 2015 JEANNE HURLEY SIMON LECTURE
“Healthcare in Illinois”with
Felicia Norwood
Director of the Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services
7 p.m. - Thursday, March 26
SIU Carbondale Student Center Auditorium
Free and open to the public.
Felicia F. Norwood brings more than twenty years of experience in health care policy,
health business operations and health care delivery to her position. Norwood has spent
large portions of her career working for the insurance company, Aetna. She was a senior
policy adviser on Health and Human Services to Governor Edgar, where she led health care
reform initiatives, and chaired the Governor’s Human Services Cabinet. Norwood has also
served as a policy adviser to Governor Thompson, where she developed and implemented
policies on children and family services, public health, and mental health.
Established in memory of Paul Simon’s first wife, Jeanne Hurley Simon, this lecture series
features a woman of distinction in the areas of politics, government and law.
Born in Chicago in 1922, Jeanne earned a bachelor’s degree at Barat College in Lake Forest
and a law degree at Northwestern University Law School in Evanston. She met Paul Simon
while both were serving as Democrats in the Illinois House of Representatives. Jeanne
Simon served as a Chicago corporate lawyer, Cook County assistant state’s attorney and
Illinois state representative.
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