By Joseph Goral
Staff Writer
jgoral@mihomepaper.com
LAKE ORION — Lake Orion’s Village Council appointed three applicants to the village’s board of ethics on March 24.
The appointments were made after the village council’s special meeting earlier that evening which was held to interview candidates.
Kenneth Mogill will serve a three-year term; Lisa Flynn will serve for two and Chad Scribner will serve one year.
Mogill, a partner at the law firm Mogill, Posner & Cohen, is an attorney who has been in private practice for 52 years, according to a resume included in the meeting’s agenda packet. His practice has been concentrated in the field of professional ethics for over 30 years, and he has taught legal ethics at Wayne State University Law School since 2006.
“I am a past chairperson of the State Bar’s Standing Committee on Professional Ethics, and have been a member of various State Bar and Michigan Supreme Court ad hoc committees addressing ethics-related issues,” Mogill wrote in his application. “I am currently a member of the Michigan Supreme Court’s Justice for All Task Force. I am also a long-time member of the of the local Federal Bar Association’s ethics committee.
Mogil also speaks at legal-ethics related seminars and conferences, and has written multiple journal articles on the topic.
Flynn, a retired physician, has experience as the chair at Harper Hospital DMC’s ethics committee, as a board member, and more. She earned a master’s degree in Healthcare Ethics from Creighton University and teaches ethics to surgical residents at Wayne State University’s School of Medicine, according to her application.
Scribner is a real estate agent who has experience with the Michigan real estate code of ethics, equal opportunity and fair housing training, according to his application. He also earned a Bachelor of Science in Biochemistry and an MBA which includes a college-level ethics course.
“With my experience of inspecting millions of dollars’ worth of life-saving drugs and Michigan real estate education and business, I will provide a fair, impartial and independent perspective that will benefit the people,” he wrote.
The board was created in October 2023, and will take questions or complaints regarding whether provisions of the ethics code is applicable to a situation, according to village documents.