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Published on: 4/11/2007
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Her $186,000-a-year pay as director of DHS' division of mental health exceeds the $128,100-a-year salary of her boss, DHS Secretary Carol Adams, but is equal to what was paid to Lorrie Jones' predecessor, Dr. Christopher Fichtner, who resigned in 2005.
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When Fichtner was hired to head DHS' mental health division in early 2003, the Blagojevich administration crafted job qualifications dictating the person in the job be licensed to practice medicine.
Fichtner had an M.D.
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Leigh Steiner, who held the post prior to Fichtner, also did not possess an M.D.