Biography of Cheri Bustos January 2010  Cheri Bustos was elected to the East Moline City Council in 2007, representing the 4th Ward, which stretches from 7th Street to Archer Drive and from the Mississippi River to 36th Avenue. Bustos is the Vice President of Public Relations and Communications at the parent company of Quad-City-based Trinity Regional Health System. (Iowa Health System) It is the nation's sixth largest nondenominational health system with annual revenues of almost $2 billion and nearly 20,000 employees.  Bustos had served as Trinity's Senior Director of Corporate Communications for more than six years before her appointment to the parent organization. Bustos had been a journalist for 17 years, reporting on crime, city and state government, health and other issues of importance.  Most of her reporting and editing career was spent at the Quad-City Times.   She is a past volunteer with Big Brothers/Big Sisters, Junior Achievement and the Two Rivers YMCA in Moline, Ill. She served on the board of directors for Skip-A-Long Child Development Services, Illinois' largest downstate child-care organization, where she also served on its executive committee; and WVIK public radio in Rock Island. Bustos chaired the marketing/communications committees  for two of the Chamber of Commerce organizations in the Quad-Cities. She is president of the board of The Women's Connection, the Quad-City's largest women's organization. Bustos is a delegate of the Illinois Women's Institute for Leadership and a graduate of the Illinois Quad-City Chamber of Commerce Leadership Academy. She is a recipient of the 2009 Athena Women Leadership Award. She earned her bachelor's degree in political science from the University of Maryland, College Park, and her master's degree in journalism from University of Illinois at Springfield. She also attending Illinois College in Jacksonville. As a collegiate athlete, she was inducted into the Illinois College Sports Hall of Fame. Her husband, Gerry, is a lieutenant with the Rock Island County Sheriff's Department and is the founder and commander of the Quad-City Bomb Squad. They have three sons: Tony, an engineer in the Chicago area; Nick, a senior at Illinois College in Jacksonville; and Joey, a sophomore at Kirkwood Community College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

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