Commissioner Mariyana T. Spyropoulos has been elected the new Board President of the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago. Commissioner Barbara McGowan was re-elected Vice President and Commissioner Frank Avila is the new Chairman of Finance.

President Spyropoulos received her law degree from The John Marshall Law School and her MBA from Loyola University Chicago. She also completed graduate work in American government at Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. Commissioner Barbara McGowan has served on the MWRD Board since 1998. Besides serving as Vice President, she is Chairman of the Affirmative Action Committee and the Procurement Committee.

Commissioner Frank Avila was elected to the Board of Commissioners in 2002 and was re-elected in 2008 and 2014. He is Chairman of the Engineering Committee, the Maintenance and Operations Committee and the Public Health and Welfare Committee.

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Pictured, left to right, are President Mariyana Spyropoulos and Commissioner Keri Steele and Vice President Barbara McGowan.