Elizabeth Blair, ’93 PAA, MA ’03 LAS was the first female named Police Officer of the Year in the Peoria Police Department. She retired in 2018 after proudly serving for more than 23 years. As a student at UIS, she was vice president of the Student Senate, which helped merge Sangamon State University with the University of Illinois. Elizabeth says, “The classes and extracurricular activities at UIS prepared me to give back and pay it forward.”