Governor Engler has appointed Eleanor Powell to the Funds Administration-Board of Trustees effective June 24, 2002. These are State administered workers' compensation funds consisting of the Second Injury Fund, Silicosis, Dust Disease and Logging Industry Compensation Fund, and the Self Insurers' Security Fund.

Powell is President and CEO of Michigan Construction Industry Mutual, a specialty carrier that provides workers' compensation coverage to employers in the construction and manufacturing sectors. She has maintained this leadership roll since 1984 and directed the organizational transfer of the Michigan Construction Industry Self-Insurers' Fund into Michigan Construction Industry Mutual on January 1, 2000. This was the first self-insured group fund to convert to a mutual insurance company in Michigan history.

Other accomplishments include appointment to the Workers' Compensation Appeal Board by then-Governor William Milliken in 1980, prior appointment to the Funds Administration-Board of Trustees from 1993 to 1999 by Governor Engler where she was representing the self-insured industry, and former member of the Michigan Self-Insurers Association and the Michigan Council of Self-Insured Group Administrators.

As trustee, Powell will be representing the insurance industry in the State of Michigan. Her term will expire in 2006.