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Kathy Hamilton is an Illinois elected official who serves as the chairwoman of the Board of Trustees at the College of DuPage, a community college in the Chicago suburbs. She was chosen as chairwoman after the election of three "clean slate" candidates backed by Hamilton in April 2015. Hamilton is a registered〔https://ilesonline.idfpr.illinois.gov/Lookup/LicenseLookup.aspx〕 CPA and holds a BA and an MBA in finance. Her term as a trustee of the college has been marked with controversy for her, the college and the college’s top administrators. When the administration came under media scrutiny in 2014 for a number of incidents related to its spending practices, Hamilton made national headlines for trying to make public the details of the college's spending. She opposed a tuition hike; spoke out against the college's attempt to get a $20 million grant from the state; pushed for transparency following the exposure of the college president spending college funds on personal items; and openly criticized the college’s spending and accounting practices. Following these events, she was formally censured by the college's board of trustees. Following her censure, local and national media outlets published stories supporting Hamilton and chastising the college. ''The Chicago Tribune'' criticized the college president's actions and the board's censure of Hamilton. ''Forbes'' magazine praised her efforts to require public transparency of the college's finances. ''The Washington Times'' gave the college its Golden Hammer Award, which the newspapers uses to spotlight waste, fraud and abuse in government. Subsequent to the Hamilton's censure, she continued her public efforts to implement fiscal responsibility and was the only member of the board to vote against a taxpayer-funded $760,000 early retirement buyout of the college president’s contract. The buyout also became a widely-covered event in the media and invoked negative reactions from the local community and several Illinois state legislators. ==Tenure== Kathy Hamilton was elected by voters to the College of DuPage Board of Trustees on April 8, 2013. She received 51,595 votes, with the second-place winner getting 32,433 votes. On the board, she held the position of vice chairman until April 2015. Hamilton's six-year term expires in 2019. On April 7, 2015, a local election was held for three of the board’s six seats. Three candidates who campaigned under the banner “clean slate” won all three seats.() Hamilton publicly supported all three candidates’ campaigns. After the election, Hamilton’s lawyer wrote a letter to the state attorney general and local prosecutor to ask for action to prevent the outgoing board from holding any meetings until the newly elected board members officially begin their tenure. Hamilton was chosen as the new chairwoman of the board at the first board meeting after the election. The three returning board members were the only trustees to vote against Hamilton as chairwoman. On April 20, Hamilton and her slate of newly elected trustees passed a vote to put college president Robert Breuder on administrative leave. His leave coincides with internal investigations being conducted by the board into various practices the school allegedly did in recent years. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kathy Hamilton」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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