Governor Announces WCC Appointments

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker announced the appointment of two new members to the Workers’ Compensation Commission, as well as the reappointment of four others. The governor appointed Deborah Baker and Christopher Harris to the commission and reappointed Barbara Flores, Stephen Mathis, Deborah Simpson and Thomas Tyrrell. Baker was previously assistant deputy chief legal counsel and ethics officer at the Illinois Department of Corrections. Before that, she was litigation counsel and compliance counsel at UpRight Law and served as assistant attorney general at the Office of the Illinoi...