A law school classmate of Illinois Governor Pat Quinn’s has been named director of the state’s child welfare system.
Governor Quinn says he conducted a national search for the next director of the Department of Children and Family Services, and says the best candidate was his Northwestern University law school classmate - Bobbie Gregg.
Gregg has worked for Kraft, the City of Chicago, and JP Morgan Chase.
Later - she got a Masters Degree in social work and started working for DCFS.
Quinn says it was Gregg’s legal experience that made her stand out as a candidate - not the fact they went to law school together.
A spokeswoman for Quinn’s office says the two did not know each other well in law school.
She says five candidates were interviewed for the job - and that - quote “several” of them were from out of state.
The previous director of DCFS resigned after having the job for a month.
WBEZ and the Chicago Sun-Times reported Arthur Bishop pleaded guilty to theft from a social service agency where he worked, and he’d been sued for child support for a daughter he said he didn’t know existed.