Julie Cellini is a free-lance journalist in Illinois with a writing career spanning over 50 years.
In the 1960s, while covering the political news beat, she met and later married Willam F. Cellini, a Springfield, Illinois city council member.
[1] She also serves on the board of the Memorial Medical Center Foundation and the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission Task Force.
[3] As a founding member of the Illinois Historic Preservation Agency, Cellini has been cited as the driving force behind the establishment of the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, a $150 million project that has drawn over two million visitors since its opening,[4] she was awarded the State Journal-Register First Citizen in 2015 for her efforts in the development of the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum and Library.
In 1985, Ms. Cellini became chairman of that board as well as for the Library's successor organization, the Illinois State Historical Preservation Agency.