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The U.S. Railroad Retirement Board (RRB) has made two
appointments related to its senior-level Executive Committee.
Keith B. Earley has been appointed as the RRB's Director of Administration, and
Dorothy Isherwood was named as the agency's Senior Executive Officer.
As Director of Administration, Mr. Earley will supervise offices which provide
administrative and management support for the agency, including human resources,
facility management, procurement, public affairs and telecommunications. He will
report directly to the agency's three-member Board and also serve as a member of
the RRB's Executive Committee, which is responsible for day-to-day operations
and providing policy recommendations to the Board Members.
An RRB employee since 1983, Mr. Earley has been Director of Human Resources
since October 2001. Prior to that he served as Director of the Resource
Management Center and was an Assistant to the Director of Programs.
Mr. Earley is a graduate of Northwestern University (B.A. 1983) and Governors
State University (M.A. 1992). The parent of two children, he and his wife,
Nicole, live in Bartlett, Illinois.
As Senior Executive Officer, Ms. Isherwood will chair the RRB's Executive
Committee, coordinating development and implementation of agency policy. She
will continue in her role as Director of Programs, overseeing all headquarters
units involved in adjudicating and processing benefit payments. She has had this
position since June 2003.
Ms. Isherwood is a graduate of the University of Illinois (B.A. 1973) and
Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management (M.B.A. 1988). She and
her husband, William, reside in Lincolnshire, Illinois.
Both appointments stem from the departure of Henry M. Valiulis, who had served
as both Senior Executive Officer and Director of Administration. Mr. Valiulis
retired April 3 after 38 years of service to the RRB.
The Board Members also approved a change in the agency's organizational
structure related to its nationwide network of 53 field offices. Rather than
being a part of the Office of Programs, the Field Service component will now
report directly to the three-member Board.
Martha M. Barringer will continue as Director of Field Service, a position she
has held since July 2000, and also become a member of the agency's Executive
Committee.
# # # An independent Federal agency headquartered in Chicago, the RRB administers the
over $10.9 billion-a-year benefit programs provided under the Federal Railroad
Retirement and Unemployment Insurance Acts covering the nation's railroad
workforce and their families.
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