Gov.-elect Tom Wolf fills out transition team

HARRISBURG - Gov.-elect Tom Wolf filled out his transition steering committee Tuesday, adding executives and officials from academia, law, nonprofits, and the government.

"I look forward to working with these individuals to address the steep fiscal and economic challenges ahead," he said in a statement.

Joining the team are Philadelphia lawyer Shanin Specter - son of the late Sen. Arlen Specter - as well as Nilda Iris Ruiz, president and chief executive officer of Asociación Puertorriqueños en Marcha, and Joseph Meade, government affairs director for the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Other newly named members include Neal Bisno, president of SEIU Healthcare Pennsylvania, the state's largest union of nurses and health-care workers; David Barasch, former U.S. attorney in Harrisburg and Pennsylvania's consumer advocate in the 1980s; Aradhna Oliphant, president and CEO of Leadership Pittsburgh Inc.; Mark Nordenberg, longtime chancellor of the University of Pittsburgh; State Rep. Phyllis Mundy (D., Luzerne), serving her 12th term in the House; Robert Brooks, mayor of Murrysville, Westmoreland County; Julie E. Wollman, president of Edinboro University; and Carl G. Cooper, who runs a Pittsburgh-based diversity consulting firm.

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