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State
Representative
Joseph Uecker
House
District 66
FOR
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Stephen Clegg
May
12, 2005
(614) 466–8134
Uecker
Awarded Fellowship
COLUMBUS––State
Representative Joseph Uecker (R-Loveland) was among 37
nationally selected lawmakers chosen to participate in a
training program that annually identifies and assists
promising state leaders in the Midwest.
Uecker
will meet with fellow lawmakers from Ohio
and 10 other Midwestern states and the Canadian provinces
of Manitoba, Ontario and Saskatchewan on July 8–12, in
Madison, Wis., for The Council of State Governments’ 11th
annual Bowhay Institute for Legislative Leadership
Development (BILLD).
“In
a little more than a decade, BILLD has come to be
recognized as one of the premier leadership training
programs in the nation,” said Michigan
Rep. Jerry O. Kooiman, who serves as a co-chair of the
institute’s steering committee. “Since 1995, nearly,
325 of our region’s lawmakers have graduated from the
Bowhay Institute and many of them now hold key leadership
positions in their states.”
State
legislators from Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas,
Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South
Dakota and Wisconsin were chosen to participate during the
competitive, nonpartisan selection process. Members of the
Ontario, Manitoba and Saskatchewan
legislative assemblies are also selected by their caucuses
to take part in the program.
BILLD
was founded in 1995 to help new legislators meet the
demands of program devolution and, in many states, term
limits. These two emerging forces have highlighted the
shortage of training available for legislators, a void
that BILLD aims to fill.
Founded
in 1933, the Bowhay Institute is named in honor of the
late James Bowhay, longtime director of The
Council of State Governments’ Midwestern Office. The
goal of the national, nonpartisan organization is to
assist and advance state government by providing research
assistance, professional development opportunities,
interstate consulting services and suggested state
legislation.
“The
Bowhay Institute is a prestigious leadership institute,
and I am honored to have been selected to attend,”
Uecker said. “I look forward to the high-paced schedule
of this program.”
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