According to our union bylaws, the MCO Executive Board is responsible for “making recommendations in regard to work of the union, for coordinating the work of the standing committees, for the expenditure of necessary moneys, for seeing that the decisions of the Central Committee are carried out” and making decisions for the union in between Central Committee meetings.
Meet the Board and Contact Them.
President
Byron Osborn
Byron Osborn
President
Byron works at the Chippewa Correctional Facility. He hired with the MDOC in 1994 and has been a chapter official since 1999.
Byron was elected to the MCO Executive Board as a trustee in 2014 and was elected president in 2018.
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Vice President
Ray Sholtz
Ray Sholtz
Vice President
Ray is a corrections officer at the St. Louis Correctional Facility and has more than 20 years with the MDOC.
Ray has served as a chapter official for 18 years and as a member of the Executive Board for 10 years. In 2018 he was elected Vice President.
He is a Marine Corps veteran and chair of the MCO Military Members Committee.
Ray is also the Marion Township Supervisor in Saginaw County.
Ray previously worked at Macomb and Saginaw correctional facilities.
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Treasurer
Dave Pasche
Dave Pasche
Treasurer
Dave Pasche has worked for the MDOC for 16 years. He has been an MCO chapter official for 13 years and is currently the chapter president at MTU.
Dave was the 2015 Officer of the Year at MTU. He was an ERT member from 2006 to 2011. Dave has also served on MCO’s Uniform Committee for six years, and he served on MCO’s election committee twice.
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Recording Secretary
Cary Johnson
Cary Johnson
Recording Secretary
Cary has worked at Cotton Correctional Facility since starting with the MDOC in 1995. She became chief steward in 1997.
Cary began serving on the MCO Executive Board as a trustee in 2004 and became recording secretary in 2018.
She has chaired the Uniform Committee, Civil Rights Committee, the Efficiency Committee, and MCO’s Correctional Fatigue/PTSD Initiative. She has served on the bargaining team for four contracts.
Highlights of her unionism include participation in the Gettysburg War College and the restructuring of MCO in 2016.
She was the MDOC Corrections Officer of the Year in 2017.
Cary is also a dedicated mother.
Her favorite leadership quote is: “Leadership cannot be given it must be earned, it cannot be taken away, you lose it by lack of performance.”
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Trustee
Mark Dunn
Mark Dunn
Trustee
Mark is currently an officer at the Oaks Correctional facility. He hired into the department in November of 1994 at Huron Valley Men’s Correctional Facility. He transferred to the Michigan Reformatory and ultimately ended up at the Oaks.
Mark was a 15-year member of the Emergency Response Team. He is also very involved with the Security Threat Group team.
Mark represents MCO on the Operational Excellence in Segregation Team.
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Trustee
Marcus D. Collins
Marcus D. Collins
Trustee
Marcus started at Ryan Correctional Facility in 2008. He then worked at Woodland Correctional Facility and opened Detroit Detention Center in 2013 where he worked until 2022. He currently works at Macomb Correctional Facility. He is a three-time Employee of the Month and was DDC Officer of the Year in 2015.
Marcus has held the chapter positions of chief steward, vice president and chapter president at DDC. He has served on countless grievance committees and is currently chair of the uniform committee. He participated in the MDOC Wellness Committee pilot program and MCO's Fallen Officers Memorial Dedication Ceremony in 2017.
His favorite quote is, “The time is always right to do what is right.” - Martin Luther King Jr.
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Trustee
Tim Fleury
Tim Fleury
Trustee
Tim Fleury has been a Michigan corrections officer at Alger since 2006. He has been an MCO chapter official since 2013.
Tim has served MCO members in several areas. He was on the Grievance Committee, Uniform Committee, and Crisis Fund Committee. He was part of MCO’s Next Generation leadership training course in 2017-2018. He also organized the UP Crisis Fund Golf Outing in Munising.
Tim was elected to the MCO State Executive Board in 2020.
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Trustee
Georgiann Stan
Georgiann Stan
Trustee
Georgiann Stan is the chapter president at WHV. She has been a corrections officer since 2000.
Georgiann was appointed to the Board in 2020.
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Lori Conant
Lori Conant
Trustee
Lori has been a Corrections Officer since 1997 and has spent her entire career working at the Parnall Correctional Facility. She has served as a Union Official for almost 20 of those years and is the current President at her facility. She was appointed to the MCO State Executive Board in 2023. Lori also serves as the President of the SMT Employees Club. Her advice to new employees: “You will learn something from everyone you work with.”
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