Department of Workforce Services Director Selected for Prestigious Toll Fellowship Program

The following was released from The Wyoming Department of Work Force Services who is proud to announce that Department of Workforce Services Director Joan Evans has been selected for the prestigious Toll Fellowship Program sponsored by the Council of State Governments. 

The Henry Toll Fellowship Program, named in honor of Henry Toll, a Colorado senator who founded CSG in 1933, is the nation’s premier leadership development program for state government officials and the most widely recognized one serving all three branches.

Evans was re-appointed by Governor Matt Mead as Director to the Wyoming Department of Workforce Services in January, 2011. She was initially appointed to this post under Governor Dave Freudenthal in January, 2007. Under Evans’ leadership, the Department of Workforce Services provides employment and training, unemployment insurance benefits, workers’ compensation benefits, business and vocational rehabilitation services throughout Wyoming.

This year’s Toll Fellows Class included leaders from 34 states and two U.S. territories. Participants included a secretary of state, district judges, a Supreme Court chief justice, various cabinet officials, nine senators and 19 representatives.  Previous Toll Fellows have gone on to build careers of great distinction.  Toll Fellows Alumni currently include four governors, seven lieutenant governors, eight secretaries of state, eight members of Congress and one member of President Obama’s cabinet, Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis.

Evans is thrilled with the award and had this to say:

The Council of State Governments, headquartered in Lexington, Kentucky, is the premier multi-branch organization forecasting policy trends for the community of states, commonwealths and territories on a national and regional basis. The Council of State Governments alerts state elected and appointed officials to emerging social, economic,