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2005 Selina Roberts Ottum Award Receipient, Jill McGuire
2005 Michael Newton Award Recipient, Glen F. Hackmann
Jill McGuire
Recipient of the 2005 Selina Roberts Ottum Award for Community Arts Leadership
As the executive director of the region’s largest annual funder of the arts dedicated to the cultivation, promotion, and fostering of cultural programming in the St. Louis region, Jill McGuire leads all functions of the organization, including the annual grants process; the development of ongoing programs and special projects; and serving as a liaison to the broader community, advocating for the advancement of the arts in the region and beyond.
Having been at the helm of the Regional Arts Commission since its inception in 1985, McGuire has witnessed a consistent growth in tax revenues, resulting in a larger grant pool and allowing for more opportunities for St. Louis's cultural institutions. Working closely with the more than 200 arts groups the Commission serves, McGuire and her staff consistently seek out creative ways to support the arts in order to maximize each organization’s grant allocation.
In fall of 2003, McGuire, her staff, and the board of the Regional Arts Commission marked a major milestone for the organization by opening its new home and site of the area’s first Cultural Resource Center, designed with input from the arts community the organization serves—nonprofit groups, across all disciplines, shapes, and sizes. Developed to meet the everyday needs of the arts groups, both emerging and established, the four-story facility features large, flexible space designed to accommodate both administrative and artistic needs, including board rooms, workshop and classroom space, a rehearsal studio, and a gallery.
McGuire’s leadership in the arts extends beyond the St. Louis region and the state of Missouri. A founding board member for Arts for America, a national political action committee for the arts, McGuire has been a long-time advocate for greater public support for the arts. McGuire has also served as board member and past vice president of Americans for the Arts (formerly the National Assembly of Local Arts Agencies); president of the United States Urban Arts Federation, an alliance of executive directors of the local arts agencies in the nation's fifty largest cities; and board member for the National Association of Counties, Arts and Culture Commission.
In addition to large-scale national initiatives, McGuire is often invited to consult with local arts and civic leadership in other cities. The Arts Alliance of Jackson-Hinds County, MS; the Heinz Endowments in Pittsburgh; and arts agencies in Newark, NJ, Charlotte, NC, and Albuquerque, NM, have all benefited from McGuire’s vast expertise.
An adjunct professor for Webster University, McGuire is the Community and Cultural Policy Instructor for the Masters of Arts Administration Program, and has been a guest speaker, lecturer, and presenter at other major universities in the area, including University of Missouri-St. Louis, Washington University, and Webster University.
Prior to the Regional Arts Commission, McGuire served as executive assistant to Mayor Vince Schoemehl, with whom she worked to create the Commission in 1985.
Glen F. Hackmann
Recipient of the 2005 Michael Newton Award for Leadership in Fundraising
Glen F. Hackmann is a managing director as well as the general counsel and secretary for Robert W. Baird & Co. Incorporated. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of Robert W. Baird Group Limited, Baird’s European operation. In addition, he is director of risk management, as well as chairman of Baird’s Audit Committee and Risk Management Committee.
Prior to joining Baird in 1984, Hackmann was Chief Counsel for ContiCommodity Services, Inc. in Chicago, IL, and prior to that was General Counsel of Reinholdt & Gardner in St. Louis, MO. Hackmann is a former member of the District 8 Committee of the NASD. He is also a former member of the Executive Committee of the SIA’s Legal & Compliance Division, as well as the former chairman of the SIA’s State Regulation & Legislation Committee. Hackmann graduated with an A.B. in English literature from the University of Missouri and received his J.D. from the University of Missouri.
He is chairman of the Board of Directors for the United Performing Arts Fund of Greater Milwaukee. Hackmann is former president of the Florentine Opera Company and a member of its Board of Directors. Hackmann is also a former member of the Board of Directors of the Milwaukee Ballet Company.