4 appointed to juvenile justice committee

One person has been appointed and three others reappointed to the Minnesota Juvenile Justice Advisory Committee by  Gov. Tim Pawlenty.

Jean E. Hancock of Stillwater is the new appointee. Those reappointed were Chong Y. Lo of St. Cloud, Michael J. Mayer of Eagan and Brenda J. Pautsch of Gaylord.

Hancock is a police officer, paramedic and school resource officer for the Woodbury Department of Public Safety. She was appointed to the board as a representative of law enforcement.

Lo is an assistant public defender handling juvenile cases in St. Cloud. He has been a member of the committee since 2006 and was reappointed as a representative of court personnel.

Mayer is a First Judicial District trial court judge, working as a juvenile court judge. He was appointed to the bench by Pawlenty in 2004 and was reappointed to the committee as a representative of court personnel.

Pautsch is drug court manager in the Fifth Judicial District in Mankato and president of the Gaylord City Council. She was reappointed as a representative of local elected officials.

The committee awards grants and carries out the state portion of the federal Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act. Is is made up of 18 members, all appointed by the governor.

Greg Heinemann has been appointed president of the James J. Hill Reference Library in St. Paul, and Peter Gilbertson chairman of the board of directors.

Anne Rasmussen, the library’s chief financial officer, will become chief operating officer, and Tom Triplett was appointed to a position where he will work on the library’s strategic growth initiatives and identify new areas for partnership and collaboration.

Heinemann is the founder and managing partner of Denali Marketing of Minneapolis and has been on the Hill library board for five years. Gilbertson is founder and chief executive officer of Anacostia & Pacific Co. and chair of Anacostia Rail Holdings and the Chicago South Shore and South Bend, Louisville and Indiana and Pacific Harbor Line railroads.

Triplett, an attorney, is a former commissioner of the Minnesota departments of finance, planning and revenue and was policy director for former St. Paul Mayor Randy Kelly.

The James J. Hill Reference Library is a nonprofit private business research organization, considered one of the nation’s premier sources of publicly accessible business information.

Jennifer Pfeffer has been reappointed to the Minnesota Board of Examiners for Nursing Home Administrators.

Pfeffer, of Mankato, is executive director of Pathstone Living in Mankato, a senior care facility owned by Ecumen, and is also Ecumen’s regional director for southern Minnesota, overseeing the leadership of three additional facilities. She has been a member of the board since 2006 and was reappointed as a nonprofit nursing home administrator member.

The board licenses nursing home administrators, investigates complaints and has the authority to revoke or suspend an administrator’s license. It is made up of nine members appointed by the governor and ex-officio members from the Minnesota Departments of Health and Human Services.

Two people have been appointed to the NextGen Energy Board, which is responsible for researching and reporting to the Minnesota commissioner of agriculture and the state Legislature on how the state can invest its resources to most efficiently achieve energy independence, agricultural and natural resources sustainability and rural economic vitality.

Kelly R. Marczak of Coon Rapids and Douglas G. Tiffany of North Oaks were named to the 19-member board.

Marczak is director of clean fuel and vehicle technologies with the American Lung Association of the Upper Midwest. Tiffany is an assistant extension professor in biofuels production economics with the University of Minnesota Extension Service.

Three people have been reappointed to the Minnesota Board of Water and Soil Resources.

Paul W. Langseth of Worthington, Brian G. Napstad of McGregor and Gene Tiedemann of Euclid were reappointed to four-year terms on the 20-member board, which implements the state’s soil and water conservation policy, comprehensive local water management and the Wetland Conservation Act.

Langseth is president and manager of Prairie Land Trees Inc. in Worthington and has been Nobles County soil and water supervisor since 1996. he was reappointed to the board as a soil and water conservation district supervisor.

Napstad is the owner of Fisherman’s Bay Restaurant on Big Sandy Lake and has been an Aitkin County commissioner since 2005. He was reappointed to the board as county commissioner.

Tiedemann is a full-time farmer with his brother and two sons in Polk County and is vice president of the Red Lake Watershed District. He was reappointed as a representative of a watershed district or watershed management organization.