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Tim Pugmire

Dayton picks Phillips to head Iron Range board

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DFL Gov. Mark Dayton announced today that Mark Phillips is his choice for Commissioner of the Iron Range Resources and Rehabilitation Board.

Phillips replaces Tony Sertich, who left the IRRRB to become president of the Duluth-based Northland Foundation.

Phillips served as Dayton’s commissioner of the Department of Employment and Economic Development from 2011 to 2012. He left that post for a job with Kraus-Anderson Construction Company. Phillips also served as the IRRRB director of economic development in the 1980s.

"The people and businesses of the Iron Range will be well served by Mark’s extensive public and private economic development experience,” Dayton said in a statement.

The IRRRB, based in Eveleth, is a state agency created to promote and invest in business, community and workforce development in northeastern Minnesota.

Dayton must still fill commissioner vacancies for the Metropolitan Council and MN.IT.