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Julio Nuñez hired as new Osage Nation Human Resources director

Nuñez takes over for Julie Gilmore, who left to join the HR department of the WahZhaZhe Health Clinic

Louise Red Corn
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Julio Nuñez is the Osage Nation's new Human Resources director. Courtesy Photo

The Osage Nation has hired a new director of human resources to replace those who have left the position to work at the expanding WahZhaZhe Health Clinic.

Julio Nuñez was the HR director at the Heart of the Rockies Medical Center, a regional hospital in Salida, Colo., that has more than 600 employees before hiring on at the Nation. He is a native of Oklahoma and is married to a Comanche woman.

“Oklahoma is home, and we are grateful to be returning, especially for an opportunity to serve the Osage Nation,” Nuñez said in a prepared release. “Being able to bring my experience and motivation to this innovative and inclusive workforce is incredibly meaningful.” 

Nuñez has 15 years of experience and has worked in various industries. He contributed to the updated Osage Nation Employee Handbook that went into effect June 5 and increased time off for employees by two hours per pay period based on years of service. The new handbook also has updated sections on Osage preference, sexual harassment, and discrimination protection laws and the Speak What’s on Your Mind law.

Nuñez was preceded in the HR director post by Julie Gilmore and Tiffanie Tracy. Gilmore left the position to take a job at the Wahzhazhe clinic and Tracy left to pursue other opportunities.

“We are excited to introduce and welcome Julio Nuñez in this critical role,” said Secretary of Administration James Weigant. “His demonstrated capability as a proven executive leader brings with it the right combination of expertise, drive, and know-how that will prove immensely beneficial to the continued success and growth of the Osage Nation.” 

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  • Louise Red Corn

    Title: Freelance Author
    Twitter: @louiseredcorn
    Languages: English, Italian, rusty but revivable Russian

    Louise Red Corn has been a news reporter for 34 years and a photographer for even longer. She grew up in Northern California, the youngest child of two lawyers, her father a Pearl Harbor survivor who later became a state judge and her mother a San Francisco native who taught law at the University of California at Davis.

    After graduating from the U.C. Berkley with a degree in Slavic Languages and Literatures with no small amount of coursework in Microbiology, she moved to Rome, Italy, where she worked as a photographer and wordsmith for the United Nation’s International Fund for Agricultural Development, specializing in the French-speaking countries of Africa.

    When the radioactive cloud from Chernobyl parked over Rome in 1986, she escaped to New York City to work for the international editions of Time Magazine. She left Time for Knight-Ridder newspapers in Biloxi, Miss., Detroit and Lexington, Ky., During nearly 20 years with Knight-Ridder, she was a stringer (freelancer) for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and Parade Magazine.

    In 2004, she married Raymond Red Corn and moved to Oklahoma, where she worked for the Tulsa World before she bought the weekly newspaper in Barnsdall and turned a tired newspaper into the award-winning Bigheart Times, which she sold in 2018. She hired on at the Osage News in early 2022.

    Throughout her career she has won dozens of state, national and international journalism awards.

    Red Corn is comfortable reporting on nearly any topic, the more complex the better, but her first love is covering courts and legal issues. Her proudest accomplishment was helping to exonerate a Tennessee man facing the death penalty after he was wrongfully charged with capital murder in Kentucky, a state he had never visited.

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Louise Red Corn
Louise Red Cornhttps://osagenews.org
Title: Freelance Author
Twitter: @louiseredcorn
Languages: English, Italian, rusty but revivable Russian

Louise Red Corn has been a news reporter for 34 years and a photographer for even longer. She grew up in Northern California, the youngest child of two lawyers, her father a Pearl Harbor survivor who later became a state judge and her mother a San Francisco native who taught law at the University of California at Davis.

After graduating from the U.C. Berkley with a degree in Slavic Languages and Literatures with no small amount of coursework in Microbiology, she moved to Rome, Italy, where she worked as a photographer and wordsmith for the United Nation’s International Fund for Agricultural Development, specializing in the French-speaking countries of Africa.

When the radioactive cloud from Chernobyl parked over Rome in 1986, she escaped to New York City to work for the international editions of Time Magazine. She left Time for Knight-Ridder newspapers in Biloxi, Miss., Detroit and Lexington, Ky., During nearly 20 years with Knight-Ridder, she was a stringer (freelancer) for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and Parade Magazine.

In 2004, she married Raymond Red Corn and moved to Oklahoma, where she worked for the Tulsa World before she bought the weekly newspaper in Barnsdall and turned a tired newspaper into the award-winning Bigheart Times, which she sold in 2018. She hired on at the Osage News in early 2022.

Throughout her career she has won dozens of state, national and international journalism awards.

Red Corn is comfortable reporting on nearly any topic, the more complex the better, but her first love is covering courts and legal issues. Her proudest accomplishment was helping to exonerate a Tennessee man facing the death penalty after he was wrongfully charged with capital murder in Kentucky, a state he had never visited.

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