Mr. Fairman has more than thirty years of hands-on Public Safety experience as a Bureau Chief responsible for managing budgets of more than $150 million under the auspices of the President of Cook County Board of Commissioners.
His experience includes- Executive Director of the Cook County Department of Corrections (Adult Detention) for Cook County Sheriff. He has also served as a corrections executive in Illinois, California and Iraq.
Mr. Fairman has conducted numerous audits of governmental facilities and in addition provided oversight to those facilities. During his tenure at Cook County Department of Corrections, he opened new facilities, developed an Audit and Compliance Unit, Legal Office with 4 attorneys which were charged with ensuring that each facility was in compliance with departmental and sheriff’s general orders as well as state, county and federal laws.
Mr. Fairman has served as an Auditor for the American Correctional Association and was selected to serve as Vice Chair of the Health Services Committee because of his vast experience in correctional health care in prisons and jails. He was selected by the University of California at San Diego’s Medical School Psychiatric s Department to be the Vice Chair of the “Forensic Addiction Certification Board’.
For 2 years, Mr. Fairman monitored an Immigration Detention Facility for its compliance with the US Department of Homeland Security, Immigration and Custom Enforcement Division rules and regulations. In Iraq, he advised, trained and mentored an Iraqi General on ways to develop, build and manage that country’s Prison System.
Mr. Fairman’s education includes receiving a Bachelor of Science degree from Hardin Simmons University, Master of Science degree from Chicago State University and completion of a program for “State and Local Governmental Managers” from John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.