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Comptroller of Illinois | |
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Member of | Board of Trustees of the State Employees' Retirement System [1] |
Seat | Illinois State Capitol Springfield, Illinois |
Appointer | General election |
Term length | Four years, no term limits |
Inaugural holder | George W. Lindberg |
Formation | December 15, 1970 |
Salary | $135,669 (2016) [2] |
Website | Official page |
The Comptroller of Illinois is a constitutional officer in the executive branch of government of the U.S. state of Illinois. Ten individuals have held the office of Comptroller since the enactment of the Illinois Constitution of 1970, replacing the prior office of Auditor of Public Accounts that was first created in 1799. The incumbent is Susana Mendoza, a Democrat.
The Comptroller is elected for a renewable four-year term during the quadrennial mid-term election. The Illinois Constitution provides that the Comptroller must, at the time of their election, be a United States citizen, at least 25 years old, and a resident of the state for at least 3 years preceding the election. [3]
Article V, Section 17 of the Constitution of Illinois states the Comptroller "...shall maintain the State's central fiscal accounts, and order payments into and out of the funds held by the Treasurer." [4] In accordance with this mandate, the Comptroller is designated by law as the chief fiscal control officer for the state of Illinois and thus responsible for the legal, efficient, and effective financial operations of state government. [5] [6] As such, the Comptroller:
The Comptroller is charged by statute with certain additional duties. In particular, the Comptroller supervises local government finances throughout Illinois. This function includes reviewing localities' financial statements, collecting financial data and organizing it into user-friendly databases, investigating instances of waste or fraud in local governments, and publishing an annual report summarizing the revenues, expenditures, fund balance, and debt of some 9,000 units of local government. [22] [23] [24] [25] Moreover, the Comptroller regulates cemeteries under the Cemetery Care Act, and is charged with the fiduciary protection of cemetery care funds used for the care and maintenance of Illinois gravesites. [26]
Aside from their regular responsibilities, the Comptroller is fourth (behind the Lieutenant Governor, Attorney General, and Secretary of State, respectively) in the line of succession to the office of Governor of Illinois. [27] [28] The Comptroller is also by law a member of the board of trustees of the State Employees' Retirement System (SERS), the independent state agency that administers public pensions for legislators and their staff, the judiciary, executive branch officials, and the professional civil service. [29]
The late Judy Baar Topinka was a moderate Republican first elected in 2010 and subsequently re-elected in 2014 to a second four-year term as Comptroller. However, Topinka died unexpectedly in December 2014. [30] On December 19, Governor Pat Quinn appointed Jerry Stermer to succeed Topinka, to serve until January 12, 2015, when he was replaced by Leslie Munger, who was appointed by Quinn's successor as governor, Bruce Rauner. [31] [32] [33] Munger was then defeated by Susana Mendoza in the 2016 special election to fill the remainder of the term through 2018.
Some legislators have perceived a redundancy overlap between the offices of Comptroller and Treasurer, and have therefore proposed constitutional amendments to merge the two offices and earn administrative savings. For example, HJRCA 12, considered by the Illinois General Assembly in the 2008-2009 session, would merge the office of Comptroller into the office of Treasurer. [34]
In 2011, Comptroller Topinka and the Treasurer, Dan Rutherford, introduced legislation to allow voters to decide whether the offices should be merged. [35] The legislation was opposed by Michael Madigan, Speaker of the Illinois House of Representatives, and did not become law. [36]
The following is an historic list of office holders for the Comptroller of Illinois and its preceding office, the Auditor of Public Accounts. [37] [38]
# | Name | Term | Political Party |
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1 | H. H. Maxwell | 1812-1816 | |
2 | Daniel Pope Cook | 1816 | Democratic-Republican |
3 | Robert Blackwell | 1817 | |
4 | Elijah C. Berry | 1817–1818 | |
# | Name | Political Party | Term |
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1 | Elijah C. Berry | Democratic | 1818–1831 |
2 | James T. B. Stapp | Democratic | 1831–1835 |
3 | Levi Davis | Whig | 1835–1841 |
4 | James Shields | Democratic | 1841–1843 |
5 | William L. D. Ewing | Democratic | 1843–1846 |
6 | Thomas Hayes Campbell | Democratic | 1846–1857 |
7 | Jesse K. Dubois | Republican | 1857–1864 |
8 | Orlin H. Miner | Republican | 1864–1869 |
9 | Charles E. Lippincott | Republican | 1869–1877 |
10 | Thomas B. Needles | Republican | 1877–1881 |
11 | Charles P. Swigart | Republican | 1881–1889 |
12 | Charles W. Pavey | Republican | 1889–1893 |
13 | David Gore | Democratic | 1893–1897 |
14 | James S. McCullough | Republican | 1897–1913 |
15 | James J. Brady | Democratic | 1913–1917 |
16 | Andrew Russell | Republican | 1917–1925 |
17 | Oscar Nelson | Republican | 1925–1933 |
18 | Edward J. Barrett | Democratic | 1933–1941 |
19 | Arthur C. Lueder | Republican | 1941–1949 |
20 | Benjamin O. Cooper | Democratic | 1949–1953 |
21 | Orville E. Hodge | Republican | 1953–1956 |
22 | Lloyd Morey | Republican | 1956–1957 |
23 | Elbert S. Smith | Republican | 1957–1961 |
24 | Michael J. Howlett | Democratic | 1961–1973 |
# | Name | Political Party | Term |
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1 | George W. Lindberg | Republican | 1973–1977 |
2 | Michael J. Bakalis | Democratic | 1977–1979 |
3 | Roland W. Burris | Democratic | 1979–1991 |
4 | Dawn Clark Netsch | Democratic | 1991–1995 |
5 | Loleta A. Didrickson | Republican | 1995–1999 |
6 | Dan Hynes | Democratic | 1999–2011 |
7 | Judy Baar Topinka | Republican | 2011–2014 |
8 | Jerry Stermer | Democratic | 2014–2015 |
9 | Leslie Munger | Republican | 2015–2016 |
10 | Susana Mendoza | Democratic | 2016–present |
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