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1998 NALIT Legislative Staff Achievement Award Recipients

Bill Behnk, California || Jim Greenwalt, Minnesota

NALIT recognizes Bill Behnk for professional accomplishment and service to NALIT, NCSL, and the California Legislature.  Bill has been an integral part of the NALIT staff section for many years.  He frequently serves as presenter for NALIT sessions and has helped to coordinate presentations by other legislative staff in California.  Bill represents NALIT on the NCSL Executive Committee and the Legislative Staff Coordinating Committee.  He also has been active in the Communications and Information Policy Committee, serving as staff chair for 1994-95.  Bill is enthusiastic about information technology issues and is always willing to share his expertise with others.  He has hosted and served as a consultant to a number of state legislatures interested in legislative information technology.  He also provided information systems consulting services to the Federal Congress of Peru, the U.S. State Department and the Parliament of Uganda.  Bill Behnk has served as the Coordinator of Legislative Information Systems for the California Legislature for the past 15 years.  In that capacity, he serves as the liaison between the leadership, Members and staff of the Legislature and the Legislative Data Center.  Bill previously spent 17 years with the Office of the Legislative Analyst where he was chief advisor to the Legislature in all matters pertaining to the use of computers and systems development within the Executive Branch.

NALIT recognizes Jim Greenwalt for professional accomplishment and service to NALIT, NCSL, and the Minnesota Senate.  Jim has been active in NCSL as a member of NALIT since 1987 and as associate member of the American Society of Legislative Clerks and Secretaries from 1974 to 1986.  He served as editor of the NALIT Newsletter in 1993-94, NALIT vice-chair in 1994-95, chair of NALIT for 1995-96.  He has worked to raise the profile of NALIT as a staff group at NCSL and encouraged greater involvement and communication among NALIT members.  Jim also has done an outstanding job of keeping the focus of NCSL and the LSCC on information technology issues.  He served as chair of the NCSL Legislative Staff Coordinating Committee’s Information Technology Task Force from 1996-97 and continues to serve on that task force in 1998.  Jim was the driving force behind NALIT’s first professional development seminar in 1997.  Jim not only offered to serve as host for the first seminar, he also worked tirelessly on all aspects of the seminar – from developing the program, to raising funds for special events, to promoting the meeting among all NALIT members.  He continues to contribute as co-chair of the NALIT Professional Development Seminar Planning committee for 1998.  Jim also provided information systems consulting services to the Brazilian State Legislative Assembly.  Jim is Director of Senate Information Systems and Administrative Services and has been an employee of the Minnesota Senate for the past 25 years.