Awards

O'Neill School of Public & Environmental Affairs Distinguished Alumni Awards - 1998

About Heidi J. Voorhees

Heidi J. Voorhees is the owner and president of Voorhees Associates, a firm that handles both executive search and general management consulting assignments. She has led more than 140 recruitments for local government entities across the country and takes pride in facilitating a tailored, thorough process that gives elected and appointed officials the tools they need to make critical personnel decisions. Her clients have come from all over the United States, including the City of Austin, TX; Johnson County, KS; Evanston, IL; Waukesha, WI; Fort Worth, TX; Bloomington, IL; Carbondale, IL; Fayetteville, NC; and clients in Arizona, Rhode Island and Colorado.

Along with her eleven years of recruitment and consulting experience, Voorhees has also spent nineteen years in local government leadership and management, with positions in Wilmette, IL, Schaumburg, IL, and Kansas City, MO. From 1990 to 2001, she served as the Village Manager for Wilmette, IL, a northwestern suburb of Chicago. Since Wilmette in 2001, Voorhees has been an adjunct instructor for the Center for Public Safety located at Northwestern University. She also teaches law enforcement executives in the Executive Management Program on management, community relations and organizational culture, and has been an instructor for the Northwestern University graudate program for the M.P.A.

Voorhees holds a Master's Degree in Public Affairs from the School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University where she was a fellow in the Eli Lilly State and Local Government Fellowship Program. She was recognized as the Distinguished Alumnus for SPEA in 1998. She has served on the Boards of Directors of numerous professional associations including the Chicago Metropolitan Managers' Association and the Illinois City and County Management Association. Voorhees is currently on the Board of the Family Service Center for Wilmette, Glenview, Kenilworth and Northbrook, Illinois and the Board of the League of Women Voters of Wilmette, Illinois