OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) – The Oklahoma Lottery Commission voted unanimously Tuesday to select longtime state finance official Rollo Redburn as the agency’s new executive director at an annual salary of $140,000.
Redburn, 59, worked for 29 years at the Office of State Finance and helped launch the lottery after it was approved by Oklahoma voters in 2004. He served previously as the commission’s director of administration and became interim director after James Scroggins resigned in March.
“When they interviewed me, I told them this was just as much my baby as it was anybody’s,” Redburn said. “I feel like I was involved in the creation of it, so it was hard for me to envision somebody else sitting up there. I’m excited and honored that they selected me to do it.”
Scroggins, who took a position with the Illinois State Lottery, earned about $184,000 annually. He was Oklahoma’s first lottery director and hired after stints with state lotteries in Missouri and Pennsylvania.
Redburn said one of his top priorities as director will be repealing a state law requiring the lottery to generate a minimum profit of 35 percent of gross proceeds. Redburn said if that requirement was lifted, the commission could put more money into prizes, increase profits and ultimately provide more money for education.
Bills to make the change have been introduced each legislative session for the past several years but been derailed by Republicans who control the Legislature, many of whom oppose a state lottery.
Oklahoma News
June 20, 2012
Oklahoma lottery hires finance official as director
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