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1 1 SENATE RESOLUTION NO.
1 2 BY COMMITTEE ON RULES AND ADMINISTRATION
1 3 A Resolution honoring Diane E. Bolender upon her retire-
1 4 ment as Director of the Legislative Service Bureau.
1 5 WHEREAS, Diane E. Bolender is retiring as the
1 6 Director of the Legislative Service Bureau after
1 7 serving in that capacity for nearly 13 years; and
1 8 WHEREAS, Diane's service at the Legislative Service
1 9 Bureau has spanned five decades and nearly 35 years;
1 10 and
1 11 WHEREAS, Diane began her legislative career working
1 12 for the Iowa General Assembly in 1967 prior to the
1 13 time when the General Assembly first began meeting
1 14 each year in regular session, and when the Legislative
1 15 Service Bureau was a young central staff agency; and
1 16 WHEREAS, Diane's academic degree in history,
1 17 government, and education and her experience working
1 18 for the Omaha Public Schools as a high school
1 19 government teacher served her well in preparing her
1 20 for her drafting, staffing, and research work at the
1 21 Legislative Service Bureau; and
1 22 WHEREAS, Diane exhibited her commitment to the
1 23 General Assembly and the citizens of this state by
1 24 quickly becoming an expert in the drafting of bills
1 25 and staffing of committees in the areas of education,
1 26 education finance, public retirement systems, and
1 27 state government; and
1 28 WHEREAS, Diane continually assumed more
1 29 responsibility throughout her career at the
1 30 Legislative Service Bureau, becoming a Senior Research
2 1 Analyst in 1980, assuming the position of Research
2 2 Division Chief in 1987, being elevated to Deputy
2 3 Director in 1988, and being named by the Legislative
2 4 Council as Director in 1989; and
2 5 WHEREAS, Diane has been an exceptional and much-
2 6 beloved staff person in the Legislative Service
2 7 Bureau, continually exclaiming her exuberance for
2 8 legislative staffing, exercising her devotion and
2 9 loyalty to the General Assembly as an institution and
2 10 as a co-equal branch of government, and pursuing her
2 11 untiring resolve to always prepare the highest quality
2 12 work products for the General Assembly in the shortest
2 13 time frame possible; and
2 14 WHEREAS, Diane has been extremely active in
2 15 representing the Iowa General Assembly in national
2 16 legislative organizations, including the Education
2 17 Commission of the States, the National Conference of
2 18 State Legislatures, and the Council of State
2 19 Governments; and
2 20 WHEREAS, Diane was elected to the highest
2 21 legislative staff position in the nation as the
2 22 National Conference of State Legislatures' Staff Chair
2 23 for 2000-2001, representing more than 30,000
2 24 legislative staff around the country and endeavoring
2 25 to serve them through the programs and services
2 26 offered by this dynamic professional association of
2 27 legislators and staff; and
2 28 WHEREAS, Diane's other activities for the National
2 29 Conference of State Legislatures have included serving
2 30 as a founding member of the Education Staff Network,
3 1 serving as the Chair of the Research and Committee
3 2 Staff Section, serving as Staff Chair of the Assembly
3 3 on the Legislature and of the Assembly on State
3 4 Issues, and serving two terms on the Executive
3 5 Committee; and
3 6 WHEREAS, Diane has also served as a staff member of
3 7 the national Executive Committee of the Council of
3 8 State Governments and worked as the principal
3 9 legislative staff person and liaison to the Council of
3 10 State Governments' staff when the Iowa General
3 11 Assembly hosted the 1992 National Annual Meeting of
3 12 the Council of State Governments and the 1994
3 13 Midwestern Legislative Conference Meeting of the
3 14 Council of State Governments in Des Moines; and
3 15 WHEREAS, it is fitting that the Senate should
3 16 recognize Diane's extraordinary and long-term public
3 17 service, her unsurpassed devotion to the legislature
3 18 as an institution, her inspiring leadership in the
3 19 Legislative Service Bureau's fulfillment of its
3 20 nonpartisan drafting and staffing missions, and her
3 21 determined attention to the lawmaking functions of the
3 22 General Assembly; NOW THEREFORE,
3 23 BE IT RESOLVED BY THE SENATE, That the Senate pay
3 24 tribute to Diane E. Bolender, Director of the
3 25 Legislative Service Bureau, for her extraordinary and
3 26 inspiring accomplishments as the leader and manager of
3 27 the General Assembly's nonpartisan drafting and
3 28 staffing agency, and for her devoted service over
3 29 nearly 35 years to the General Assembly and the
3 30 citizens of this state, and, upon her retirement, wish
4 1 her the very best in the years ahead; and
4 2 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That the Secretary of the
4 3 Senate prepare an official copy of this Resolution for
4 4 presentation to Diane E. Bolender.
4 5 LSB 7252SV 79
4 6 rj/cf/24
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