August 10, 1999
(Executive Council)
Premier announces senior
appointments
Premier Brian Tobin today
announced a number of senior appointments.
Donna Kelland is appointed as
Assistant Secretary to Cabinet for Economic Policy, Cabinet Secretariat. Ms.
Kelland moves to the post from her current position as Assistant Deputy
Minister - Government Services, Department of Government Services and Lands.
Philip McCarthy becomes the new
Assistant Deputy Minister (Acting) - Government Services. He comes to that
position from his current post as Senior Policy Analyst - Economic Policy
Division, Cabinet Secretariat.
Loretta Chard is appointed as
Assistant Deputy Minister (Acting) - Institutions, Department of Health and
Community Services. Ms. Chard moves to that position from her current post
as Senior Policy Analyst - Social Policy Division, Cabinet Secretariat.
The appointments are effective
September 1, 1999.
Media Contact: Karen Humphreys
Blake, Communications, (709) 729-4781.
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DONNA KELLAND
Appointed as
Assistant Secretary to Cabinet for Economic Policy
Cabinet Secretariat
Donna Kelland joined the provincial
public service in December 1985 as a farm management specialist with the
Department of Rural, Agricultural and Northern Development. She
continued with that department as Manager, Farm Development programs,
from May 1987 to February 1989, when she took the position Director,
Farm Business and Evaluation Division, with the Department of Forest
Resources and Agrifoods. She then held the position of Senior Policy
Analyst, Economic Policy with Cabinet Secretariat before being appointed
Assistant Deputy Minister (Acting) - Government Services, with the
Department of Government Services and Lands in December of last year.
Ms. Kelland holds a Master of Science degree in agricultural economics
and a Bachelor of Science (Agriculture) from the University of Guelph.
She is a professional agrologist and is a member of the Newfoundland and
Labrador Institute of Agrologists/Agricultural Institute of Canada.
PHILIP McCARTHY
Appointed as
Assistant Deputy Minister (Acting) - Government Services
Department of Government Services and Lands
Mr. McCarthy joined the
provincial public service in 1977 as a statistician with the
Newfoundland Statistics Agency of Executive Council. Since then he has
held various positions within government including statistician and
later system analyst with Agricultural Branch of the Department of
Forestry and Agriculture (later Department of Rural, Agricultural and
Northern Development). In 1985, he became Director of Production and
Marketing with the Agricultural Branch. In January 1993, Mr. McCarthy
moved to the Agrifoods Branch of the now Department of Forest Resources
and Agrifoods as Director of Special Projects. From there he moved to
his current position as Senior Policy Analyst - Economic Policy, Cabinet
Secretariat. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree (mathematics) from
the University of Prince Edward Island and a Bachelor of Science degree
(computer science) from Memorial University.
LORETTA CHARD
Appointed as
Assistant Deputy Minister (Acting) - Institutions
Department of Health and Community Services
Loretta Chard has
considerable experience in the health care sector. Ms. Chard began her
career as a health care professional in nursing in 1973. In 1978 she
became director of staff education at Western Memorial Regional Hospital
in Corner Brook, a position she held until 1987. From 1987 to 1996, Ms.
Chard worked as assistant director of education, research and
communication services with the Newfoundland and Labrador Health Care
Association (NLHCA). In May 1997, she held the position of project
manager, health and community services integration initiative with the
Department of Health and Community Services and the following year
became Acting Director of Planning and Evaluation with the department.
For the past year, Ms. Chard has served as Senior Policy Analyst -
Social Policy, Cabinet Secretariat. Ms. Chard is a Master of Science in
Community Medicine candidate at Memorial University. She holds a
Bachelor of Nursing degree from Memorial University as well as several
other professional diplomas from Memorial, the Canadian Hospital
Association, and the General Hospital School of Nursing.
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