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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
March 30, 2012
The Iowa Commission for the Blind will name a new director for the Iowa Department for the Blind after interviewing candidates on Saturday, April 14. The Commission conducted a nationwide search for applicants to fill the director position, focusing on candidates with knowledge of blindness and rehabilitation who have significant experience supervising professionals in the blindness and rehabilitation fields. Three finalists have been invited for interviews at the Department’s headquarters in Des Moines.
The finalists include Bruce Snethen, currently deputy director of the Iowa Department for the blind in Des Moines; Daniel Wenzel, currently director of the Wisconsin Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired in Janesville, WI; and a third candidate who has exercised his right to anonymity under Iowa state law.
The Iowa Commission for the Blind is the three-member citizen board appointed by the Iowa Governor to oversee the Iowa Department for the Blind. Funded by state and federal dollars, the Department provides orientation and adjustment to blindness training, rehabilitation to achieve employment, library services, independent living services and business enterprise services to blind Iowans.
The Department’s former director Karen Keninger resigned, effective March 16, to accept a position with the Library of Congress directing the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, the federal program which administers a free library program of braille and audio materials circulated to eligible borrowers through a national network of cooperating libraries.
