Jim Huegerich: Founding Ombuds for the Town of Chapel Hill

James E. Huegerich, the Senior Ombuds for Chapel Hill, North Carolina, passed earlier this month. He moved to Chapel Hill for graduate school and then helped create and run the city's police department crisis unit. In 2012, he and Faith Thompson became the first full-time Ombuds for Chapel Hill. (This remains one of the few IOA-compliant municipal Ombuds programs in existence.) He served in the role until his passing. (Hall-Wynne Obituary.)

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