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5 Appointed to ERISA Advisory Council

U.S. Secretary of Labor Thomas E. Perez has announced the appointment of five new members to the 2015 Advisory Council on Employee Welfare and Pension Benefit Plans — also known as the ERISA Advisory Council.

The newly appointed members and the expertise they represent are:

  • General public: Elizabeth Ysla Leight, director of government relations and legal affairs at the Society of Professional Benefit Administrators in Chevy Chase, Md.
  • Employee organizations: Jeffrey G. Stein, general counsel to 22 Taft-Hartley funds and related organizations serving over 400,000 members of 1199SEIU United Health Care Workers East, in New York City.
  • Corporate trust: Jennifer Kamp Tretheway, recently retired after 39 years as a trust company executive with Northern Trust.
  • Employers: Deborah A. Tully, senior director of compensation and benefits finance and accounting analysis at Raytheon Co. in Waltham, Mass.
  • Investment management: Rennie Worsfold, a vice president at Financial Engines in Boston.

Perez also announced that current members Paul M. Secunda and Mark E. Schmidtke will serve as the 2015 council's chair and vice chair, respectively. Secunda is law professor and director of the labor and employment law program at Marquette University Law School in Milwaukee, Wis. Schmidtke is a shareholder with the law firm Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart P.C. in Valparaiso, Ind.