Gerard Thurston Warren (born July 25, 1978) is an American football defensive tackle and defensive end for the New England Patriots of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the University of Florida. He was drafted by the Cleveland Browns third overall in the 2001 NFL Draft, and has also played professionally for the Denver Broncos, Oakland Raiders and New England Patriots of the NFL.

Early years[link]

Warren was born in Lake City, Florida. He attended Union County High School in Lake Butler, Florida, where he played for the Union County Tigers high school football team.^[1] Warren finished his high school career with 36 sacks, and was ranked among the top ten defensive linemen nationally. During his four years in high school, the Union County Tigers had an overall win-loss record of 49–4 and won three consecutive Florida Class 3A state championships in 1994, 1995 and 1996.^[1] Warren was named to the Prep Stars and USA Today high school All-America teams. In 2007, ten years after he graduated from high school, the Florida High School Athletic Association (FHSAA) recognized Warren as one of the "100 Greatest Players of the First 100 Years" of Florida high school football.^[1]

College career[link]

Warren attended the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida, where he played for coach Steve Spurrier's Florida Gators football team from 1998 to 2000.^[2] As a junior team captain in 2000,^[2] Warren posted 76 tackles and 4.5 sacks at defensive tackle and was a first-team All-Southeastern Conference (SEC) selection and a second-team All-American.^[3] He finished his three-season career as a Gator with 159 tackles, 9.5 sacks, and 30 tackles for a loss in 35 games and 22 starts.^[3]

Professional career[link]

Cleveland Browns[link]

Warren was drafted by the Cleveland Browns with the third overall selection in the 2001 NFL Draft.^[4] He played in 15 games a rookie in 2001, all starts, and finished with 83 tackles and five sacks.^[5] In 2002, Warren started all 16 games, recording 56 tackles, two sacks, and two forced fumbles. He started 15 games for the Browns in 2003, picking up 70 tackles and a career-high 5.5 sacks. In his final season in Cleveland, 2004, Warren played in and started 13 games, missing three to injury, and finished with 38 tackles and four sacks.

Denver Broncos[link]

In March 2005, Warren was traded to the Denver Broncos for a fourth-round pick in the 2005 NFL Draft.^[6] In addition to Warren, the Broncos also acquired defensive linemen Michael Myers, Ebenezer Ekuban, and Courtney Brown from the Browns, leading some to dub the new Broncos defensive line the "Browncos."^[7] Warren finished the 2005 season with 42 tackles and three sacks in 16 starts. In 2006, Warren started 15 games and recorded 30 tackles and 2.5 sacks on the season.

Oakland Raiders[link]

In August 2007, during the preseason, Warren was traded by the Broncos to the Oakland Raiders in exchange for a conditional fifth-round draft pick in the 2008 NFL Draft.^[8] In 2007, Warren played in 12 games (five starts) for the Raiders, posting 22 tackles, four sacks, and one forced fumble. Warren started all 16 games in the 2008 season, finishing with 39 tackles, four sacks, and one forced fumble. In his final season with the Raiders, 2009, Warren again started all 16 games and finished the year with 35 tackles and two sacks. He was released by the Raiders on March 11, 2010.

New England Patriots[link]

On April 24, 2010, during the final day of the 2010 NFL Draft, Warren signed with the New England Patriots. Despite being a late free agent signing, Warren made the Patriots' roster and began the season as a starter at defensive end before moving to nose tackle in Week 6. After two games at nose tackle, Warren moved back to defensive end but did not start the team's Week 8 game against the Minnesota Vikings. He returned to the starting lineup in Week 12 against the Detroit Lions on Thanksgiving, and went on to start four of the team's final five games after Thanksgiving. Warren finished the regular season with 28 tackles and 3.5 sacks in 16 games (10 starts). The Patriots re-signed him on August 8, 2011 after he had been a free agent for most of the offseason. During the 2011 season, he played in eleven games, all off the bench, and compiled a sack and 15 tackles.^[5] Afterward, he again became a free agent,^[9] but he re-signed with the Patriots on April 30, 2012.^[10]

See also[link]

	American football portal
	Biography portal
	College football portal

• 2000 College Football All-America Team
• Florida Gators
• Florida Gators football, 1990–1999
• List of Cleveland Browns first-round draft picks
• List of Florida Gators football players
• List of New England Patriots players

References[link]

External links[link]

• Gerard Warren – Florida Gators player profile
• Gerard Warren – New England Patriots player profile

Leo Gerard
Gerard speaking at an AFSCME rally for Obama in 2008.
Born	1947[1] Creighton Mine, Ontario, Canada
Occupation	Labor leader Steelworker
Spouse	Susan Gerard[1]
Children	Kari-Ann, Meaghan[2]

Leo W. Gerard (born 1947)^[1] is a steelworker and a Canadian and American labor leader. He was elected president of the United Steelworkers (USW) in 2001, and is the second Canadian to head the union.^[3][4] He is also a vice president of the AFL-CIO.

Early life and career[link]

Gerard was born in 1947 in Creighton Mine, Ontario, at the time an unincorporated suburb of Sudbury.^[1][2] His father, Wilfred Gerard, was a miner at the Creighton Mine and a key organizer with the International Mine Mill and Smelter Workers' Union (which merged with the United Steelworkers in 1967).^[2][3][5] He grew up in Sudbury.^[6] Taught that unions were supposed to be engaged on social issues and not just collective bargaining, Gerard often listened in on union meetings conducted in the family home.^[2] He handed out leaflets on the eve of a strike at the age of 11,^[3] and accompanied his father on a union organizing drive at the age of 13.^[2]

After graduating from high school, Gerard took a job at the Inco nickel smelter in Sudbury, unclogging tuyeres with a sledgehammer.^[3][6] He was elected steward and then chief steward of the 7,000-member Local 6500.^[2][3] He enrolled at Laurentian University, studying economics and planning to be an economics professor.^[7] He quit college in 1977 when he was just a few credits short of graduation, and took a job as a staff representative for the international union.^[1][3][6]

He married his high school sweetheart, Susan, and they have two daughters.^[2]

Gerard rose steadily within the Steelworkers union hierarchy over the next two decades. He was elected director of USW District 6 in 1985 and re-elected in 1989, and was appointed national director of the Canadian division of the USW in August 1991.^[1][2][3][6] He was elected secretary-treasurer of the international union in 1993, and again in 1997.^[1][2][6] While USW secretary-treasurer, Gerard instituted a number of important administrative initiatives. He implemented cost-saving and revenue-generating initiatives, reorganized the secretary-treasurer's office, created an information technology department, developed a new union-to-member communications network, restructured member and local union servicing, and reinvigorated the union's organizing efforts.^[2]

Gerard eventually returned to Laurentian University and received a bachelor's degree in economics and politics.^[2] The university awarded him an honorary Doctor of Laws degree in 1994.^[2][6]

USW presidency[link]

Concerned that his age hindered the USW's ability to deal effectively with the problems confronting workers, President George Becker resigned effective February 28, 2001, seven months before his term of office was to end.^[3][8] The Steelworkers' executive council appointed Gerard his successor on February 21.^[1][3][6][9] Gerard quickly assembled a slate of supporters (many of them incumbent officers in the international union), and announced he would run for the presidency in the union's regularly scheduled elections in November 2001.^[10] He was elected without opposition to four-year terms in 2001, 2005 and 2009.^[6][11] Gerard was the second Canadian to head the United Steelworkers, after Lynn R. Williams (1983-1994).

In his first two terms in office, Gerard oversaw in a significant number of union mergers with the USW. The USW merged with the 12,000-member American Flint Glass Workers Union in 2003,^[12][13] the 50,000-member Industrial, Wood and Allied Workers of Canada in 2004,^[12][14] 3,000 former members of the Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employees in Canada in 2004,^[6] and the 1,150-member Independent Steelworkers Union in 2007.^[15] But the most important merger was in 2005 with the 250,000-member Paper, Allied-Industrial, Chemical and Energy Workers International Union (PACE), a merger which made the USW the largest industrial union in North America.^[12][16]

Gerard has adopted a global perspective on unionization. Beginning in 2003, he has signed strategical alliances pledging mutual support on workers' rights, organizing, and collective bargaining with the World Aluminum Conference of the International Metalworkers' Federation, Australian Workers' Union, Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union of Australia, Alliance of Canadian Cinema, Television and Radio Artists, National Union of Mine and Metal Workers of the Mexican Republic, Confederação Nacional dos Metalúrgicos of Brazil, and the Canadian Region of the Communications Workers of America.^[17][18] In 2005, Gerard negotiated a strategic alliance with the million-member Amicus, the United Kingdom's second-largest trade union and the largest private sector union.^[19][20] Two years later, this strategic alliance led to a merger between the USW and Amicus' successor, the 1.8 million-member Unite.^[20] The two unions adopted a new name, Workers Uniting, although both unions will retain their individual identities for at least a few years.^[21]

He returned to Sudbury for a visit in 2008 after an arson incident burned down the historic Sudbury Steelworkers Hall, where he had gotten his start as an organizer with Local 6500, and told the city's media that seeing the burned building was one of the most traumatic events of his life. Steel's head office subsequently donated $10,000 to the city's police force as a reward for any information that led to an arrest.^[22]

Gerard suffered a blood clot (thrombus) in his heart in February 2008, and successfully underwent heart surgery to remove the blockage.^[6]

Other roles[link]

In 2002, he chaired the Second World Rubber Industries Conference in São Paulo, Brazil and served as chair of the Rubber Sector of the International Federation of Chemical, Energy, Mine and General Workers' Unions (ICEM).^[17] A member of the executive committee of the International Metalworkers' Federation, he co-chaired the federation's World Aluminum Conference in 2003.^[17]

Gerard is a member of two federal government commissions, the U.S.-China China Economic and Security Review Commission and the National Commission on Energy Policy.^[17]

Gerard was elected a vice president of the AFL-CIO in 2001, elected to the AFL-CIO Executive Council in 2001, and appointed to serve on the labor federation's Executive Committee in February 2003.^[17] He was instrumental in the formation of the AFL-CIO Industrial Union Council, and was named chair of the AFL-CIO's Public Policy Committee in March 2005.^[17]

He also is a member of the Apollo Alliance, a group which works toward North American energy independence and cleaner and more efficient energy alternatives.^[17][23]

In popular culture[link]

News footage of Gerard is included in the 2008 documentary, Battle in Seattle by Stuart Townsend. Gerard and USW vice president Tom Conway are seen dragging two large concrete planters into an intersection near the Washington State Convention and Trade Center during the 1999 WTO protests in an attempt to help protesters block access to the WTO meetings.^[24] Gerard and Conway came under fire by Seattle police during the incident.^[24]

References[link]

External links[link]

Media related to Leo Gerard at Wikimedia Commons

• "USW Web Site"
• "Interview with Leo W. Gerard." Bill Moyers' Journal. January 9, 2009.

Megan Gallagher (born February 6, 1960) is an American actress. Her best-known roles are probably as Garry Shandling's wife on the HBO comedy The Larry Sanders Show (1992–1995), and as Catherine Black, wife of Frank Black (Lance Henriksen) on the TV series Millennium (1996–1999).

Early life and education[link]

Gallagher was born in Reading, Pennsylvania and grew up in Wyomissing, Pennsylvania. Her mother, Aileen Gallagher, was a model.^[1] Megan trained at the Juilliard School, where her classmates in 1982 included Penny Johnson, Jack Kenny, Jack Stehlin, and Lorraine Toussaint.^[2]

Career[link]

Television[link]

She had been a regular on Hill Street Blues (1986–1987), The Slap Maxwell Story (1987–1988), China Beach (1988–1989), and Nowhere Man. Other credits include L.A. Law, ER, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek: Voyager, Star Trek: Enterprise, American Dreams, and The Mentalist. She also had a brief appearance during season six of 24.

Theatre[link]

Gallagher starred on Broadway in Aaron Sorkin's A Few Good Men. Recently, she portrayed "Harper " in Angels In America on Broadway.

Film[link]

In 2010, she appeared in the independent film Alyce.

Personal life[link]

She is married to Jeff Yagher and they have two children.

Selected filmography[link]

• Champagne Charlie (1989)
• The Ambulance (1990)

References[link]

External links[link]

• Megan Gallagher at the Internet Movie Database
• Megan Gallagher at Memory Alpha (a Star Trek wiki)