Staff

Kelleye M. Chube was appointed as the General Counsel to the Illinois Commission on Equity & Inclusion on February 16, 2022. Prior to the appointment at the Commission, beginning in January 2019, she served as the General Counsel & Ethics Officer to the Illinois Human Rights Commission. Previously, Ms. Chube worked in various roles in the public and private sectors, advising senior staff on legal issues pertaining to the Illinois Executive Branch, including policy initiatives, legislative and administrative proposals, corporate compliance issues, procurement related matters and corporate transactional issues. For a ten-year period prior to working in public policy, Ms. Chube served as General Counsel and Secretary for Shared Technologies, Inc., where she created and managed a legal department, negotiated major loan facilities, managed the company's intellectual property portfolio, reviewed and implemented all legal and compliance policies, and structured, drafted and negotiated US merger and acquisition transactions, distribution contracts and software joint ventures. She has over 20 years of experience negotiating complex corporate transactions with major healthcare providers, software companies, Big Four accounting firms, and large financial institutions. In other legal roles, Ms. Chube conducted internal investigations and worked with clients to mitigate risk through ethics, compliance and operational improvements. Ms. Chube earned her law degree from The Catholic University of America, Columbus School of Law. She is a graduate of Howard University in Washington, DC, where she earned a Bachelor of Arts in Broadcast Journalism.

The State of Illinois is happy to announce that Tiffany Johnson has joined the State as the Deputy Director of the newly formed Commission on Equity and Inclusion (CEI). Tiffany be responsible for BEP all operations and continued efforts to increase procurement access for disadvantaged entrepreneurs. Tiffany will work to ensure strong compliance and certification processes that expand promote substantial representation of Businesses owned by Minorities, Women and Persons with Disabilities. Tiffany is eager to work with BEP Staff and the BEP Council to streamline engagement and collaboration with State agencies, institutions of higher education, the BEP vendor community and other stakeholders. Prior to joining the State of Illinois, Tiffany Johnson worked with the Chicago Housing Authority as the Manager of their Contract Compliance Division. Being of service to others is the foundation of her work ethic. She earned a BA in Business Administration with a concentration in Accounting from Saint Xavier University.