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James R. Council
James R. Council is a clinical psychologist and Professor of Psychology at North Dakota State University. He is currently serving as Associate Dean of the College of Science and Mathematics at NDSU. From 2006 to 2008 he served as interim Dean of the NDSU Library. While at NDSU, Jim has also served as chair of the Department of Psychology, President of the University Senate, and chair of the Institutional Review Board. Jim has also been active in national organizations, most notably the American Psychological Association, where he was President of Division 30, the Society of Psychological Hypnosis, and a member of the APA Council of Representatives.
Jim has published extensively in the area of hypnosis, his main research interest. He is currently engaged in a major research project on using hypnosis to enhance creativity in the visual and performing arts. He also has a major interest in the history of psychology, and is researching the history of the North Dakota State Hospital in Jamestown. (Formerly, the North Dakota Hospital for the Insane.)
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John Dietz
John (Jack) A. Dietz is retired from the North Dakota Judiciary. Prior to his retirement in 2004, he presided primarily in the Family Court of Cass County. A lifelong resident of North Dakota, Dietz received his B.S. degree from NDSU and his Juris Doctor degree from UND. He has lived in Fargo for 30+ years with his wife, Dr. Donna Dietz, and their menagerie of two small dogs and a large cat. Their three children are grown and have moved on to establish homes and careers of their own. Jack has ample time to indulge his ongoing love of books and sees the Library Board as a good fit to his interests and background.
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Dawn Morgan
Dawn Morgan is a Fargo native who grew up on the north side with her father, Vernon Hendrickson, the Meteorologist In Charge at the National Weather Service office at Hector International Airport, and her mother, Gladys, who teaches second grade at Jefferson Elementary.
Dawn graduated from NDSU with a B.S. degree in English then traveled and lived in various places with her brother, Loel. Returning to Fargo in the early 70’s, Dawn attended graduate school at MSUM in a newly created program for teachers of students with learning disabilities and behavioral problems.
Currently, Dawn is the founder and executive director of the Spirit Room, a 501c3 non-profit educational organization in downtown Fargo. For many years she has served on the board of the Fargo Moorhead Heritage Society, an architectural preservation organization, and has served on several City of Fargo boards and commissions dedicated to preserving and reviving downtown Fargo and the historic neighborhoods. She is currently the president of the Jefferson Area Neighborhood Association and is active regarding issues of community development.
Dawn has one son, Dakota Rudesill, who graduated from South High in 1987. Following graduation from St Olav he worked for Byron Dorgan and Kent Conrad. Following work with Conrad at the Senate Budget Committee, he entered law school and graduated from Yale with a degree in International Law. He currently lives in Lillydale, MN with his wife Becka, and works for the Council on Foreign Affairs.
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Suzanne Morrison
Law Librarian, U.S. Court of Appeals
Suzanne Morrison has a B.A. and a M.L.S. She manages the North and South Dakota federal judges' chambers and research requests from a central library in the Fargo Federal Courthouse. Suzanne is interested in the rule of law and has done projects in six different developing countries, recently returning from the West Bank. She also teaches Information Systems at the University of Mary, Fargo Center.
Suzanne and her husband, Greg, have three children: Matt, Sarah and Megan. She volunteers at Heirlooms for Hospice and is on the YWCA Board.
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Herbert Snyder
President
Herbert Snyder is associate professor of accounting at North Dakota State University. He has written extensively on library finance and accounting, as well as on financial misconduct in nonprofit organizations. Dr. Snyder is the author of the book "Costing and Pricing in the Digital Age" and his articles on library financial management have appeared in Library Quarterly and Library Administration and Management. In 2004, he was awarded a Certificate of Achievement by the American Library Association for his contribution to library management for his column "Small Change," which ran in the magazine "Library Administration Management" from 1998–2003. During 2003, he was a Fulbright scholar in Ukraine. Prior to entering the academic world, Dr. Snyder worked as a fraud investigator and as an intelligence analyst for the U.S. Army.
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Richard Zeck
Vice President
I'm the senior pastor of First United Methodist Church here in Fargo for going on four years now. My education is a B.S. Degree from South Dakota State University and then a Masters of Divinity from Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary in Evanston, Illinois.
I have been a lifelong reader and am passionate about creating opportunities for all to have access to knowledge. It is an honor to serve on the Library Board. To keep myself busy I have four children to keep Bonnie (my wife) and I running and happy. I enjoy working out at the YMCA, sports, watching a good movie and probably spend too much time listening to sports radio and 24-hour news stations.
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Mike Williams
Commissioner Liaison
Voters elected Mike Williams to the Fargo City Commission in June 2004 and re-elected in 2008.
Williams was born and raised in Fargo, the youngest of 10 children. He is happily married to Susan, whom he calls the "best thing ever." Williams is an insurance adjuster/risk manager and director of auxiliary services for Greenfields Energy and currently serves as Chair of the ND Alliance for Renewable Energy. His interests include reading, public policy, building a more proactive, sustainable community, walking, biking and being outdoors.
You can reach Commissioner Williams by e-mail at mjwilliams@cityoffargo.com or by phone at (701) 241-1310.
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