MHFRC

Edna Salcedo Talboy, PhD, Democrat, Parkville

Appointed in December 2009; presently is a private consultant with Salcedo-Talboy Consulting, LLC. She was previously an Instructional Specialist with the University of Missouri Kansas City-IHD-Alianzas, and Manager of Curriculum Development and Instructional Technology at the UMKC Mid-America Addiction Technology Transfer Center. She received her doctorate from Capella University, Masters from Boise State University, and Bachelors from the University of New Orleans. Her community service has included the Kansas City Human Rights Commission, the International Society for Performance Improvement, and LULAC National Educational Service Centers.

T. Martin Vollmar, MD, Republican, Frontenac

Appointed in December 2009; presently is a radiologist at St. Anthony’s Medical Center. He also has served as Medical Director of the Department of Radiology at this location, and is part owner, manager and Medical Director of South County PET Imaging. He received his BA (Biology) from Washington University, MD from St. Louis University School of Medicine, and Residency in Diagnostic Radiology at St. Louis University Medical Center. He is a member of the American College of Radiology, Missouri Radiology Society, Greater St. Louis Society of Radiologists, St. Louis Metropolitan Medical Society and other related professional societies. He is married with four children.

Rory Ellinger, Democrat, University City

Appointed in October 2009, presently heads the Law Offices of Ellinger & Associates in O'Fallon. He has previously been in the law firm of Rex Burlison and was Executive Director of Legal Services of Northeast Missouri. Other experience included Executive Assistant Director of Missouri Association for Social Welfare, instructor at University of Missouri - Columbia (Dept. of History), and various other work with political campaigns including press aid to Senator Eagleton. He was appointed by Governor Carnahan as a founding member of the Board of Directors of the largest health care foundation in Missouri; the Missouri Foundation for Health, where he served as Executive Secretary for 8 years. He currently serves as Treasurer of the Crider Health Center in St. Charles, Lincoln, Warren and Franklin Counties, and was formerly the NAACP General Counsel for St. Charles County. He also was elected to four terms as a member of the University City School Board and is the Treasurer of the St. Charles County Bar Association, Endowment Chair of the University City Education Foundation, and Boardmember of the Black Reperatory Theatre in St. Louis.

James Tellatin, Democrat, Chesterfield

Appointed in November 2009, presently heads Tellatin, Short & Hansen, Inc., a national appraisal and market study firm he founded in 1984, with offices in Missouri, Illinois, Kansas, Massachusetts and Oregon. He is also a managing partner of Sant Partners, a developer of transitional care facilities in the Western United States. Mr. Tellatin, and his firm have conducted valuation and feasibility analyses assignments on more than 5,000 healthcare properties over the past 25 years, in every state in the country. The practice is limited to hospital, skilled nursing, assisted living, independent living and continuing care retirement community properties. He has written a book and numerous articles on health-care property valuation topics published by the Appraisal Institute and other institutions. Moreover, he has helped develop valuation policy for HUD and been a speaker at numerous national conferences. He is a St. Louis-area resident, received a B.S. degree in Geography from Missouri State University, and has two daughters attending out-of-state universities and a wife working in pediatric hospice.

Representative Jake Zimmerman, Democrat, Olivette

Appointed in January 2009, elected to the House of Representatives in 2006; serves on the following committees: Rules, Insurance Policy, Joint Committee on Gaming and Wagering, and Utilities (ranking member); he was formerly Deputy Chief Counsel to Governor Bob Holden, and has worked as an Assistant Attorney General, and a litigator at Thompson Coburn, LLP; a member of Congregation B’nai Amoona, a board member of the American Jewish Committee and the Crown Center, and an alumnus of the Harry S. Truman Scholarship Program where he was elected a Truman Scholar in 1995.

Robin Wright-Jones, Democrat, St. Louis

Appointed in February 2009, served in the House of Representatives from 2002-2008; elected to the Senate in 2008; serves on the following committees: Administration; Financial and Goveernmental Organizations and Elections; Gubernatorial Appointments; Veterans’ Affairs, Pensions and Urban Affairs; Ways and Means; and Joint Committee on Tax Policy; previously served as Chair of the Missouri Legislative Black Caucus and the St. Louis City Caucus; a member of the St. James African Methodist Episcopal Church; works as a real estate broker, and previously worked as a public housing administrator, and as an engineering consultant from 1980 to 2002.

Senator Eric Schmitt, Republican, Glendale

Appointed in February 2009, elected to the Senate in 2008; serves on the following committees: Gubernatorial Appointments; Health, Mental Health, Seniors and Families, Vice-Chairman; Jobs, Economic Development and Local Government; Veterans’ Affairs, Pensions and Urban Affairs, Vice-Chairman; Ways and Means; Select Committee on Oversight of Federal Stimulus;and Joint Committee on Missouri HealthNet; served as a Glendale Alderman from 2005-2008; now practices law in St. Louis County; chaired a statewide Giving Tree effort benefiting Big Brothers-Big Sisters, and has been involved with the TS (Tuberous Sclerosis) Alliance, the Gateway Chapter of the Autism Society, and Habitat for Humanity.