The Rotary Club of Jamestown celebrated the installation of its new President, Marion Beckerink administered by Past President, John Healy.Beckerink earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Dickinson College and Juris Doctorate from the Cleveland Marshall College of Law.
She is happily married to retired Southwestern Central High School teacher Rod Beckerink, the man who brought her to Jamestown, and the proud mother of her musician son, Joshua a/k/a Cautious Clay.
Ms. Beckerink then performed her first duty as President of Rotary by installing the organization’s Board of Directors.
Left to right are Marion Beckerink, President; Michelle Jones, Vice President and President-Elect; Irene Dobies, Director; Kenneth Omeruo, Director, Jennifer Harper, Secretary; Emily Cama, Director; Ruth Lundin, Treasurer; John Bauman and Paulette Klein, Directors.
Not present were: Chris Anderson, Melissa Meyers, Max Eimiller, John Felton and Dan Heitzenrater.
- Sue Jones
Marion Beckerink has enjoyed a 40 plus year career that included over twenty years as a Staff Attorney for the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio. Her focus was on challenges based on the U.S. Constitution and issues of law arising under violations of federal law. In 2014, she retired from that position and relocated to Jamestown, NY in 2015. That year she was hired by the Robert H. Jackson Center as Director of Development until she retired from that position in January 2022.
In addition to her presidency of the Rotary Club of Jamestown, Beckerink chairs the Technical and Grant Committees as a member of the non-profit Creche organization; she serves on the Altar Guild of St. Luke’s Episcopal Church; is a member of the New Neighbors Coalition; a member of the Jamestown Bar Association; and, has been a member of the I.D.E.A. Coalition since its inception when she contributed as a member of the United Way of Southern Chautauqua Board of Directors. She is now the Rotary liaison to the I.D.E.A.
In 2023, she became certified by the Executive Office of Immigration Appeals to represent individuals in Jamestown and Hamburg who are exercising a legal right to asylum in United States courts, as well as refugees seeking permanent residence status.