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- Was elected DuPage County Recorder in 2004.
- Served as Chief Deputy County Recorder from 1984-2004.
- Has been nominated to the Illinois Electronic Recording Commission by Illinois Secretary of State Jesse White in order to standardize electronic delivery of documents to all 102 counties in Illinois.
- Has implemented a maintenance budget for the last four years and has come in under budget for each of those years, returning unspent funds to the County Board.
- Helped pass the Uniform Property Electronic Recording Act, permitting all recording jurisdictions in Illinois to accept electronic delivery of documents.
- Proposed the implementation of a Property Fraud Alert System to curtail mortgage fraud.
- Is currently enacting a series of measures to provide identity protection to DuPage County property holders in order to prevent personal identity theft.
- Has taken steps to ensure the safety of all land records from 1839 to present from any unforeseen man-made or natural disaster.
- Created the Metro Recorder Group, which includes DuPage, Cook, Kane, Kendall, Lake, McHenry, and Will Counties, in order to create common business processes.
- Proposed the formation of a continuity of operations plan with other counties in the Metro-Chicago region.
Chaired several committees in the Illinois Association of County Clerks and Recorders including: Standardization of forms,
Electronic recording in Illinois,
Electronic point of sale with the Illinois Department of Revenue
- Has been selected as a member of the DuPage County Strategic Planning committee vested with the duty to shape the county’s role with its citizens over the next five years.
- Is a member of the DuPage County Technical Committee, overseeing technology purchases for the county.
- Has expanded by over thirty years the information available to the public via the Internet to save on transportation costs.
- Formed an intergovernmental agreement with the Circuit Court Clerk to allow electronic delivery of documents, reducing costs for both offices.
- Formed a partnership with the Supervisor of Assessments using recorder expertise in managing document scanning.
- Formed a partnership with the County Clerk allowing access to Clerk documents through the Recorder’s website, thereby saving the costs of creating an additional online payment procedure.
- Is writing legislation in conjunction with the courts of the 18th Judicial Circuit protecting mistaken identity with credit bureaus.
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