Mary Jo Suchy named new director of Belleville Area District Library

After a day-long session on Friday, May 15, the Belleville Area District Library Board voted unanimously to offer the position of director to Mary Jo Suchy, who has been the library’s assistant director for more than 20 years.
The position carried a base salary of $75,000 to $80,000 and Suchy indicated she would be glad to take the lower figure and share the additional funds with her staff. Tanya Stoudemire, interim chairperson of the personnel committee, said the board found that move “very noble.”
The board interviewed two other candidates on Friday: Karen White-Owens, director of the Lenox Township Library, and Denise Bearre, director of the Inkster Library.
Friday was retiring director Debra Green’s last day on the job and she wiped tears of happiness from her eyes after learning her co-worker would be moving up to the director’s position.
More on the story in the May 21 Independent