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Executive Moves: JAXPORT and Duluth Seaway

Port authorities in Florida and Minnesota hire industry veterans to fill key positions.

JAXPORT has named Jacqueline Glass as its new director of procurement services.

Glass has more than 25 years of experience as a supply chain professional focused on strategic sourcing and contract negotiation. Most recently she served as the senior manager of procurement for the Jacksonville Transportation Authority.

In her new role, Glass also will be responsible for JAXPORT’s Small and Emerging Business program, which promotes equal access to all capital and procurement contracts.

The Duluth Seaway Port Authority has hired Dean Lembke as facilities manager.

Lembke will serve as the agency’s liaison with tenants, service and government agencies, private contractors and other property users to derive safe and efficient use of port authority-owned land, structures, equipment and other assets.

He previously was a site supervisor with North Shore Track overseeing rail construction and maintenance projects. During his tenure as a senior project coordinator for Krech Ojard and Associates, Lembke provided 20 months of onsite construction oversight during the port authority’s $18 million redevelopment of the Clure Terminal.

Kim Link Wills

Senior Editor Kim Link-Wills has written about everything from agriculture as a reporter for Illinois Agri-News to zoology as editor of the Georgia Tech Alumni Magazine. Her work has garnered awards from the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education, the Georgia Institute of Technology and the Magazine Association of the Southeast. Prior to serving as managing editor of American Shipper, Kim spent more than four years with XPO Logistics.