Southeastern Human Resources Director re-appointed to state board

Press Release Date: 08-27-2007

Cathy Conway, Director of Southeastern Oklahoma State University’s Human Resources Department, recently received her second governor’s appointment to the Oklahoma Teachers’ Retirement System Board of Trustees.

This is a four-year appointment which began with a gubernatorial nomination. Conway then received Senate confirmation through sponsorship by Durant Senator Jay Paul Gumm and approval by the Committee on Retirement and Insurance. Gumm sponsored her nomination in 2003 and again this year

During her first term, Conway served the past two years as vice-chair of the TRS Board of Trustees, and was chair of the TRS Board Personnel Committee for two of the three years she served on that committee.

She was elected by her peers in June of this year to serve as chair of the TRS Board of Trustees beginning in July, which includes chair of the Investment Committee on which she has served as a member the past two years. There are 13 trustees on the board and Conway is the representative of higher education for the state.

Her current term will expire July 1, 2011. She will have been at Southeastern nine years in January 2008.

Conway said, “I am very honored to receive a second appointment by Governor Brad Henry for another four-year term of office on the Board of Trustees for the Teachers’ Retirement System of Oklahoma.

I look forward to serving the members of TRS for the next four years with anticipation of many future accomplishments, as well as any challenges, in pursuit of providing better member benefits for our retired educators, improving our investments and attaining additional funding with recent legislation.

I am very grateful to Governor Henry for his nomination and to Southeastern Interim President Jesse Snowden, Vice-President for Business Affairs Ross Walkup, and Chancellor Glen D. Johnson for their support of this appointment. I also very much appreciate the time and sponsorship from Senator Jay Paul Gumm during an exceptionally busy month.”

The TRS of Oklahoma was created by an act of the Oklahoma legislature in 1943 and began operations July 1, 1943. TRS has more than 143,000 active, inactive and retired members.