Named as “One of the Chicago’s Ten Outstanding Young Citizens” for 1978 by the Chicago Junior Chamber of Commerce.

Served on the Illinois Committee to Strengthen Community Economies, which was the policy formulation group charged with defining community development, economic revitalization, and urban policy for the state. Chairman, Municipal Finance Subcommittee (1978-79).

Appointed by the Speaker of the Illinois House of Representatives to the Illinois Legislative Commission on the Revitalization of Midway Airport. Elected as Secretary of this Commission (1979-80).

Served on the Illinois Study Commission on Public Pension Investment Policies. Chairman, Committee on Alternative Investments (1981-82).

Appointed by the Mayor of Chicago to represent Chicago’s business community on the O’Hare Advisory committee, designed as a forum for the review of the $1.5 billion redevelopment of O’Hare Airport. Chairman, Land Use Subcommittee (1982-85).

Served on the Illinois Tax Reform Commission. Chairman, Excise and Consumption Tax Task Force (1982-83).

Appointed by the Chairman of the Regional Transportation Authority’s Commuter Rail Service Board (METRA) to the METRA Citizen’s Advisory Board. Elected as the first chairman of the Advisory Board (1984-90).

Appointed by the Governor of Illinois to the Build Illinois Committee (1985-86).

Appointed by the Speaker of the Illinois House of Representatives to the Speaker’s Economic Advisory Council (1985-1990).

Appointed by the Speaker of the Illinois House of Representatives to the Illinois Legislative Bi-Partisan Task Force on Impact Fees (1989).

Appointed by the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to the FAA Aviation System Capacity Advisory Committee in Washington, D.C. (1991-95).

Appointed by the Mayor of Chicago to the Chicago-Galway (Ireland) Sisters Cities Committee, a member of the Sisters Cities International Program (1998- Present).

Judge–Sandhills “Shark Tank” 8th Annual Entrepreneurial Summit, Pinehurst, NC, April, 2014 http://www.sandhills.edu/coned/small-business-center/summit.php

Listed in Who’s Who in the Midwest and Who’s Who in the Finance and Industry.

Eagle Scout Award (1959)