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Linda A. Kurzawa of Winfield was appointed to the DuPage County Board of Health in March 1999 by DuPage County Board Chairman Robert
Schillerstrom. She was elected President by her fellow Board Members in August 1999 and re-elected in January 2001.
Under her leadership, the Board of Health has identified untreated depression and mental illness as the number one health priority in DuPage County. She strongly supports and is working towards Health Department goals of better identification of residents with a need for mental health services, better access to mental health services, and reduction of the stigma of mental illness. She has identified other priorities as working to strengthen families, assuring healthcare for the medically underserved, and raising awareness on environmental issues such as indoor air quality.
Ms. Kurzawa has been a DuPage County Board Member since 1992, representing the 6th District. She presently chairs the Community Development Commission. She previously served as Chair of the Health & Human Services Committee and the Public Works Committee, and now serves those committees as Vice Chair. Ms. Kurzawa is currently working with the Criminal Justice/Mental Health Committee to look into the establishment of a mental health court in cooperation with the Judiciary.
Her other current leadership roles include serving as Vice Chairman of the DuPage Federation on Human Service Reform (since 1996) and as a Member of the Coordinating Council of Healthy DuPage (since 1998).
Ms. Kurzawa’s other accomplishments include designing the first official flag of DuPage County that currently flies over the Veterans Memorial. She has served in leadership roles as a parent in School District 33. In 1989, she became involved with the Thorium Action Group, a grassroots organization that was eventually successful in pressing for the removal of radioactive waste dumped in West Chicago. She is still a member.
Ms. Kurzawa and her husband Dennis are the parents of a son and a daughter, and have one grandchild.
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