Village Voices - We don't write papers, we build scrapbooks

Everyone who knew her thought that Joann McGee would be successful in life after she graduated from Freeport High School, but nobody ever expected this.

For the past 21 years she had been working within the Department of Corrections in Stephenson County, but after earning her Doctorate degree in Public Administration from Walden on Thursday, she immediately boarded a plane and returned to Freeport where she was sworn in as the new Director of Court Services for the 15th Judicial District Friday morning as friends and family filled Courtroom #1 to witness the swearing in ceremony.

There we...