Office
of the Inspector General - U.S. Railroad Retirement Board
MARTIN J. DICKMAN
An independent Federal
agency headquartered in Chicago, the Railroad Retirement Board (RRB)
provides retirement, survivor, disability, unemployment and sickness
benefit payments totaling about $8 billion a year under the Federal
Railroad Retirement and Unemployment Insurance Acts, for about 700,000
beneficiaries now on its rolls and 237,000 current rail employees.
Before his appointment as Inspector General for the RRB, Mr. Dickman served
as a prosecutor for the Cook County, Illinois State's Attorney's Financial and
Governmental Crimes Task Force. His responsibilities included the investigation,
indictment and prosecution of criminal cases involving governmental and white
collar crimes.
From 1972-91, Mr. Dickman was a member of the Board of Trade of the City of
Chicago. At the Board of Trade, he served as the presiding judicial officer
at Exchange judicial hearings, and as a Director and Member of the Executive
Committee. He established policy, long-range strategic plans and international
development for the multi-million dollar entity. He also developed legal and
administrative policies, and approved budgets for over 800 staff employees and
3,000 members.
Mr. Dickman has conducted legal research and assisted in trial preparation
as an Associate with the Law Firm of Peter Fitzpatrick and Associates in Chicago,
1973-89; and presided over tax-related disputes as a Hearings Referee for the
Illinois Department of Revenue, 1976-80. He has also interpreted and drafted
legislation as Legislative Counsel for the minority leadership of the Illinois
House of Representatives, 1972-73; and represented the City of Chicago in various
aspects of civil litigation as an Assistant Corporation Counsel, 1970-72.
A native of Chicago, Mr. Dickman is a graduate of the University of Illinois
(B.S. 1966) and DePaul University College of Law (J.D. 1969).
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