 Vice President Redley Killion
Born: October 23, 1951, on Weno in Chuuk State, Federated States of Micronesia. Education: Vice President Killion holds a B.A. degree in Economics from the University of Hawaii at Manoa. He holds an M.A. degree in Economics, with special emphasis on Economic Development and Planning, from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. Government and Private Sector Service: Vice President Killion began working in 1974 at the Department of Resources and Development and later at the Office of Planning and Statistics at the Headquarters of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands in Saipan. In 1979, he became the first director of the Department of Resources and Development, Chuuk State. He served in this capacity until 1986. During this period he served on various Federated States of Micronesia boards representing Chuuk State including: The FSM Development Bank, FSM Foreign Investment Board, National Fisheries Corporation, and FSM Coconut Development Authority. In addition to this, he served as a delegate to the first Chuuk State Constitutional Convention, which was held in 1982. He was elected Senator at large from Chuuk State to the Fifth FSM Congress in 1987. During this time he served as vice chair of the Committee on Ways and Means and was a member on the committees on Resources and Development and Health, Education, and Social Affairs. He became the first chair of the committee on Transportation and Communications in the Sixth FSM Congress he later took over the chairmanship of the Committee on Resources and Development in that same Congress in 1989 and continued serving in this capacity in the Seventh, Eight, Ninth, and Tenth Congresses. In March 1999, after being re-elected as Chuuk State's senator at-large seat to the Eleventh FSM Congress, he was elected the Sixth Vice President of the Federated States of Micronesia. Vice President Killion is married to the former Jacinta Antonio of Chuuk, and they have nine children. |
