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A letter from Network President
Rep. Barbara Marumoto

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Highlights of annual meeting

State Advisory Board Members

NCSL Executive Committee

Web Site Information

CAWP Insert

Dear Colleagues:

It is a privilege to serve as the President of the Women's Legislative Network of NCSL for the coming year. The mission of the Network is to provide a forum to promote the participation, empowerment and leadership of women legislators. I pledge to work diligently with the Network Executive Committee and state advisory board members to represent your interests and uphold our mission.

If you attended the annual meeting in San Antonio, Texas, in August you were aware of the numerous events sponsored by the Network. The Executive Committee has already begun planning for the 2002 annual meeting in Denver, which we hope you will put on your calendar now - July 22-28, 2002.

Please read the newsletter and learn about our new initiatives and focus for 2002 - family violence. We began this discussion in San Antonio and will continue it at the AFI/ASI meeting December 5-7 in Washington, D.C., as well as at our next Network board meeting November 17. The board meeting is in Dana Point, California, in conjunction with the meeting of the Center for American Women and Politics (See enclosed insert for more information).

As a nation, we share the collective pain of people throughout the world who have suffered from the tragedies of September 11. Our nation, our states, and our role as legislators and representatives of democracy will never be the same. More now than ever we need to collectively come together to share ideas and wisdom as state leaders, and to gather strength from one another. The next opportunity for a national gathering of women leaders is November 15-18. I hope you will join the Network Board members and me in California.

Representative Barbara Marumoto, Hawaii
President, Women's Legislative Network of NCSL

Women's
Legislative
Network of NCSL

Notes from Nancy

Executive Director

An affiliate of the
National Conference
of State Legislatures

Executive Director
Nancy Brown
15429 Overbrook Lane
Stanley, KS 66224
913/897-3121 (Phone)
913/558-1299 (Mobile)
913/897-4635 (Fax)
Nbrown10@aol.com

President
Rep. Barbara Marumoto, HI

Vice President
Sen. Jeanne Kohl-Welles, WA

Past President
Sen. Jennie Forehand, MD

Eastern Region
Delegate Carol Petzold, MD
Sen. Liane Sorenson, DE

Midwestern Region
Rep. Peggy Leppik, MN
Rep. Susan Crosby, IN

Southern Region
Rep. Kathy Ashe, GA
Rep. Evelyn Lynn, FL

Western Region
Rep. Carolyn Allen, AZ
Sen. Pat Pascoe, CO

NOBEL Representative
Sen. Paulette Irons, LA

Network Alliance
Sheryl A. Wright, Chair
Sprint Corporation
913/624-6880

NCSL Staff Liaison
Annette Durlam
National Conference
of State Legislatures
1560 Broadway, Suite 700
Denver, CO 80202
303/364-7700 (Phone)
303/863-8003 (Fax)
annette.durlam@ncsl.org

The Mission of the Women's Legislative Network of NCSL is
to promote the participation,
empowerment and leadership of
women legislators.

www.ncsl.org\wln

Promoting the participation, empowerment and leadership of women legislators -- the new mission statement of the Women's Legislative Network of NCSL -- was adopted in August of 2001 at the annual meeting in San Antonio. The Network Board is committed to this mission and, it is for this reason, that they are endorsing the November meeting of the Center for American Women and Politics in California (see insert). This conference brings together women legislators and leaders from across the nation. What better time is there to come together than now?

At the NCSL annual meeting, the Network had a full array of opportunities for women legislators. The Network sponsored leadership development and educational seminars, celebrated the service of our past president with a reception and welcomed in the new President in grand style at a luncheon. The Network Alliance partners, along with new friends, assisted in financing opportunities for networking. Please support and thank these people and companies (see page 5).

Texas hospitality was in grand style, with bags of gift items for women legislators distributed through the Network booth, which consisted of much coveted items such as a Texas Cook Book, reading light, mouse pad, potholder, sun screen, and a variety of other items. A heartfelt thanks goes to Jennifer Braden, Assistant to Rep. Debra Danburg, and Sharon Hull, a government affairs lobbyist in Texas. They solicited the items, stuffed the bags, and delivered them to the booth! Thanks Jennifer, Sharon and Texas legislators!

Thanks also to NCSL's Executive Director Bill Pound and the Officers of the 2001 Executive Committee (see page 6 for the 2001 members). The Network board presented a proposal to NCSL for further financial support last year, and not only did they express their appreciation for the positive role the Network plays in enhancing its parent organization, but they also invited the Network to have a seat at the table during their strategic planning process. We've come a long way in the past five years, thanks to Network and NCSL Board members.

Planning has begun for AFI/ASI in December, AFI and ASI meetings in 2002, and for the annual meeting in Denver next July. While we are committed to partnering with several other organizations on the topic of family violence, we are also interested in knowing other thoughts and suggestions you might have. It is very easy to communicate with the Network. Just go on our web site and send us a note. Also, indicate if there is any- thing we can do for you in your state, or if you'd like a state visit; we'll try to fit it in our schedule.

Network Board Member Rep. Peggy Leppik, MN
and Network Vice President Sen. Jeanne Kohl-Welles, WA

CAWP Executive Director Debbie Walsh
and Senator Ruth Solomon, Network Past President

Nancy Brown and Cindy Maxwell-Phillips, Kelly Services

Rep. Mary Ellen Otremba, MN, Family and Friends

A letter to State Legislators from Silvia Vannucci Chiappori, Brazil

Silvia was an interpreter on the recent legislative exchange to Brazil with women legislators. This was sent to Network's Executive Director Nancy Brown, September 12, to be shared with all state legislators; we truly are a global community!

Nancy, I wish to express you Americans our solidarity and assure you that we are all Americans and, also, citizens of the world. Therefore, we are crying and praying for you, our brothers and sisters. Therefore, we are rejoicing whenever we hear of the miracle of someone still being saved.

Although, knowing that the total amount of victims will never be known, but at least for them, we do hope that the sacrifice of the thousands of people will induce humanity to think it all over. Toleration, Love and Respect for the individual and the capacity to live with, and to share and/or to cope with the blessed disparities of the human culture. All men are created equal and all have the equal right to live and to love. Whichever is the religion, race or political principle, certainly nowhere it is stated the men can judge or can murder the fellowman.

Please, accept our deepest apologies in the name of the insane murderers, for whom, however we should pray. Please, extend our love, our sympathy, our support to all the Legislators of the USA, as well as to the Government and to all the American people. Finally, please, accept our thankfulness for being what you are: America/USA a pattern, a standard of the very best citizen and citizenship, a country that, as in a mission, has given the best example of coherence of religious and democratic principles as transmitted by the very first settlers and by the very first founders of the Nation.

May God Bless you, the USA and America. May God permit that the ideals and purposes of this great nation may be fully achieved with less sacrifice, with much more world understanding and support. May God permit that Globalization will also suppose Global Love and that its benefit will enhance the true and best economic development with a much better distribution of richness which shall favour the extinction of religious, racial and social barriers that are the very ones that nourish such abnominous hate and lack of any possible human sentiment of feeling.

Finally, May God permit that most humans learn from Americans: instead of complaining, instead of pitying themselves, Americans since their very early story have worked hard and have never spared energies to become what they are: big Nation. May God Bless You Always.

Brazil Legislators to come to AFI/ASI in December

NCSL NEWS.. .. .. .. Join them!

Special events planned by the Women's Legislative Network

of NCSL to honor Brazil Women Legislators

More information will be on the NCSL and Network web site: www.ncsl.org\wln
(and mailed to those registered to attend the AFI/ASI Meeting)

Rep. BARBARA MARUMOTO
Elected Network President

Rep. Barbara Marumoto is the first President of the Women's Legislative Network of NCSL to be elected from the State of Hawaii. The election took place August 12 at the annual board meeting luncheon in San Antonio, Texas. Among those congratulating Rep. Marumoto were her husband Richard Coons and numerous colleagues from the Hawaiian State House.

Serving in the House of Representatives since 1978, Barbara is a member of the following committees: Consumer Protection and Commerce, Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs, Economic Development and Business Concerns, and the Tourism and Culture Committees. Elected Republican Legislator of the Year in 1992, she is the recipient of numerous honors and awards, including OWLS Outstanding Women Leader - Public Sector Award in 1994. Recognized as a leading advocate to improve Hawaii's business climate, she has also championed legislation of benefit to children, families and minorities. She has served as Minority Leader and has been an elected delegate to the State Constitutional Convention.

Barbara attended the University of California, San Francisco State University and the University of Hawaii where she received a B.A. in Sociology. A Realtor Associate, Barbara represents the 17^th District, a residential neighborhood near Diamond Head. She and her husband have six children and four grandchildren between them.

Why did Barbara run for office more than twenty years ago? "In 1942 my grandparents, parents, eight-week old brother and I were interned in a horse stall at Tanforan Race Track south of San Francisco - all because we were Japanese-Americans," Barbara stated. "So I have always been aware that all types of minorities - political, ethnic - need representation. Nor was it lost to me the importance and necessity of protecting the civil rights of all Americans. This is particularly important at this time of anger and frustration over the extremist attacks on the Pentagon and the Twin Towers of New York."

Sen. Pat Pascoe, Colorado

New Western Regional Board Member

Sen. Pat Pascoe, the newest member on the Network Executive Committee, completed her first four-year term as a Democratic member of the Colorado State Senate in January of 1993. She was reelected in 1994 and 1998 to two more four-year terms. A former teacher, Pascoe is a professional writer specializing in education and politics. Her articles have appeared in The Denver Post, Colorado Woman News, Denver Parent, The Rocky Mountain News, Denver Magazine and Denver Business.

She has been a regular commentator on current issues on public radio, and also served as the statehouse reporter for the Capitol News Service. A former Network State Advisory Board member, Pat is now making news through sponsorship of bills on freedom of press for students, teen pregnancy, truancy, child care, preschool, marital maintenance, health care, gun control, wood smoke pollution reduction, planned growth, and organ donations. Former Minority Caucus Chair, she is currently chair of the Public Policy Committee and Vice-Chair of the Education Committee.

At the University of Denver, Pat earned masters' and doctoral degrees in English. In 1999 she attended the Government Executives Program at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Pat and her husband, attorney Monte Pascoe, have three children.

SEE PAGE TWO FOR A COMPLETE LIST OF BOARD MEMBERS.

PHOTO CORNER

Thanks to former Network President and retired Sen. Myna Bair (DE) for conducting the workshop on "Understanding Your Behavior." And, to Sheryl Wright of Sprint for the Sprint Scholarship Program and annual event. The breakfast and entertainment on the Riverwalk was another great Sprint event!

Thanks to Alliance Members and Friends!

ALLIANCE MEMBERS

Thanks for your Texas Hospitality & Gift Bags!

Sponsors for special events at our annual meeting!

AARP
Alticor Inc.
American Express Company
AT&T
Aventis Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
CIGNA Foundation
Coca-Cola Inc.
Dana Corporation
DuPont
Edison Electric
Eli Lilly
Equipment Leasing Association
of America
Ford Foundation
Hallmark Cards, Inc.
Hoffmann-La Roche
Johnson & Johnson
Kelly Services
Mary Kay Inc.
NCSL Foundation
Olin Corporation
Pfizer, Inc.
Procter & Gamble
Reliant Energy
Sprint Corp.
Western Resources
Wyeth-Ayerst
Zeneca Pharmaceuticals

Jennifer Brady
Assistant to Rep. Danburg

Rep. Debra Danburg

Sharon Hull
Legislative Consultant

H.E.B. Grocery Company

Johnson & Johnson

Mary Kay Cosmetics

Occidental Petroleum

Reliant Energy

Sprint

Texas Department of Agriculture

University of Texas System

Texas Exes -
Univ. of Texas at Austin

Verizon

Adventist Health Care

Alexander & Cleaver, P.A.

Bank of Hawaii

Nancy Bannick

Johnson & Johnson

Legislature of Hawaii

Marriott International Inc.

Mirant Corporation

NCSL Foundation

Outrigger Enterprises, Inc.

Rifkin, Livingston, Levitan
& Silver, LLC

Sprint

NCSL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

Representative Merle Grace Kearns, Ohio

Representative Matthew W. Kisber, Tennessee

Representative Evelyn Lynn, Florida

Senator Thomas Moore, South Carolina

Representative Val Ogden, Co-Speaker
Pro Tem, Washington

Representative Marcus Oshiro,

Vice Speaker of the House, Hawaii

Representative Jo Ann Pottorff, Kansas

Senator Steven J. Rauschenberger, Illinois

Senator Michael Sanchez, New Mexico

Representative Ken Svedjan, North Dakota

Representative James Thomas, Alabama

Senator Leticia Van de Putte, Texas

Assemblyman Roderick Wright, California

Karl Aro, Executive Director, Department of Legislative Services, Maryland

Tony Beard, Jr. Senate Chief Sergeant-at-Arms, California

Michael Calvert,
Legislative Fiscal Analyst, Nebraska

James Greenwalt, Director,
Senate Information Systems, Minnesota

Connie Hardin, Director,
Legislative Budget Analysis, Tennessee

David Henderson, Administrator,
Legislative Administration Council, Oregon

Connie Johnson, Senior Legislative Analyst, Oklahoma

Craig Kinton, Director,
Office of the State Auditor, Texas

Kevin Madigan, Principal Budget Analyst, Senate Fiscal Office, Rhode Island

D'Ann Mazzocca, Executive Director,
JCLM, Connecticut

Steve Miller, Chief, Legislative Reference Bureau, Wisconsin

Susan Clarke Schaar, Clerk of the Senate, Virginia

Sanford B. Scharf, Director, Legislative Computer Support Bureau, Iowa

Susan Swords, Senior Coordinator, Office of Legislative Services, New Jersey

R. Philip Twogood, Deputy Chief of Staff, Office of the Senate President, Florida

Steve Watson, Chief Deputy Director, Legislative Counsel Bureau, Nevada

Speaker Martin Stephens, Utah; Speaker of the House Chair, Assembly on Federal Issues

Senator Lana Oleen, Kansas, Majority Leader, Chair, Assembly on State Issues

Max Arinder, Mississippi; Staff Chair,
Assembly on State Issues

Senator Jim Costa, California President,
NCSL Foundation for State Legislatures

Diane Bolender, Iowa; Secretary-Treasurer, NCSL Foundation for State Legislatures

Senator Manny Aragon, New Mexico; Chair, Council of State Governments

Eastern Region
Representative Roger Roy, Delaware (member)

Representative Keith Herman, New Hampshire (alternate)

Midwestern Region
Senator Ken Solberg, North Dakota (member)

Senator William Belanger, Jr., Minnesota (alternate)

Southern Region
Speaker Tim Ford, Mississippi (member)

Senator Earl Ray Tomblin, Senate President, West Virginia (alternate)

Western Region
Senator Verne Duncan, Oregon (member)
(alternate vacant)

 Female legislators in Bold

President
Senator Stephen Saland - New York

President Elect
Senator Angela Monson - Oklahoma

Vice President
Speaker Douglas Kristensen - Nebraska

Immediate Past President
Senator Jim Costa - California

Staff Chair
Ramona Kenady
Chief Clerk of the House - Oregon

Immediate Past Staff Chair
Diane Bolender, Director, Legislative Service Bureau - Iowa

Staff Vice Chair
Gary Olson, Director, Senate Fiscal Agency - Michigan

Senator Norma Anderson, Colorado

Representative Thomas E. Armstrong, Pennsylvania

Senator Debra Bowen, California

Representative Kathryn Bowers, Tennessee

Representative Joan Bray, Missouri

Representative Con Bunde, Alaska

Representative Garnet F. Coleman, Texas

Representative Larry Diedrich, South Dakota

Senator Joanne Emmons, Michigan

Senator Thomas Gaffey,

Deputy Majority Leader, Connecticut

Senator Beverly J. Gard, Indiana

Representative Joe Hackney, North Carolina

Senator Emmett W. Hanger, Jr., Virginia

Delegate John Hurson, House Majority Leader, Maryland

STATE ADVISORY BOARD MEMBERS

AK

Rep. Mary Kapsner

MA

Rep. Mary S. Rogeness

OR

Sen. Kate Brown

AK

Rep. Beverly Masek

MD

Sen. Delores G. Kelley

OR.

Rep. Cheryl Walker

AR

Rep. Wilma Walker

MD

Del. Shirley Nathan-Pulliam

OR

Rep. Donna Nelson

AZ

Rep. Christine Weason

ME

Rep. Marilyn Canavan

PA

Rep. Lita Indzel Cohen

CA

Sen. Betty Karnette

MI

Sen. Martha G. Scott

PA

Rep. Linda Bebko-Jones

CO

Rep. Alice Borodkin

MI

Sen. Joanne G. Emmons

PR

Sen. Lucy Arce-Ferrer

CO

Sen. Norma V. Anderson

MN

Sen. Sandra L. Pappas

PR

Sen. Norma Caranza

CT

Sen. Judith G. Freedman

MN

Rep. Nora Slawik

RI

Rep. Suzanne M. Henseler

CT

Rep. Marie Kirkley-Bey

MO

Sen. Betty Sims

SD

Sen. Marguerite M. Kleven

DE

Rep. Nancy H. Wagner

MO

Rep. Meg Harding

TN

Rep. Kathryn I. Bowers

DE

Sen. Patricia M. Blevins

MO

Rep. Roseann Bentley

TN

Sen. Marsha Blackburn

FL

Rep. Stacy J. Ritter

MS

Sen. Barbara Blackmon

TN

Rep. Beth Halteman Harwell

FL

Rep. Joyce Cusack

MS.

Sen. Alice Harden

TX

Rep. Debra Danburg

GA

Rep. Nan Grogan Orrock

NC

Rep. Julia Craven Howard

TX

Rep. Anna Mowery

GA

Rep. Sharon Beasley Teague

NC

Rep. Beverly M. Earle

UT

Rep. Judy Ann Buffmire

HI

Rep. Cynthia H. Thielen

ND

Rep. Kathy Hawken

UT

Sen. Paula Julander

HI

Sen. Suzanne Chun Oakland

ND

Rep. Janet Wentz

UT

Rep. Karen Morgan

IA

Rep. Pam Jochum

NE

Sen. DiAnna R. Schimek

VI

Sen. Yvonne Miller

ID

Rep. Wendy Jaquet

NE

Sen. Jennie Robard

VT

Rep. Elaine R. Alfano

ID

Sen. Judith Danielson

NH

Sen. Beverly A. Hollingworth

VT

Sen. Nancy I. Chard

IL

Rep. Elizabeth Coulson

NH

Rep. Phyllis Katsakiores

WA

Rep. Velma Veloria

IN

Sen. Connie Lawson

NM

Rep. Jeannette O. Wallace

WI

Rep. Johnnie Morris-Tatum

KS

Rep. Ruby Gilbert

NV

Assy. Genie Ohrenschall

WI

Sen. Peggy Rosenzweig

KS

Rep. Lisa L. Benlon

NV

Assy. Sandra Tiffany

WV

Sen. Donna Boley

KY

Rep. Joni L. Jenkins

NY

Assy. Barbara M. Clark

WV

Del. Barbara Evans-Fleischauer

KY

Rep. Susan Westrom

OH

Rep. Merle Grace Kearns

WY

Rep. Ann Robinson

LA

Rep. Kay Kellogg Katz

OH

Rep. Teresa Fedor

CANADA: Delegate Lyse Leduc

MA

Rep. Shirley A. Gomes

OK

Sen. Angela Z. Monson

Note: If you were previously an Advisory Board member and did not RSVP to a recent inquiry you may no longer be on this list. If you signed up at the annual meeting and your name is missing, please contact Network's Executive Director (some sign-up sheets or business cards may have been misplaced)

(In some instances there may be three names.)

If there are errors in the list, or if you would like to fill one of the vacancies in the states listed below, please call the Network office, 913-897-3121, or email: nbrown10@aol.com

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Women's Health and Research 

Vivian W. Pinn, M.D.

LEGISLATION AFFECTING WOMEN'S HEALTH

107TH CONGRESS

FAMILY VIOLENCE

Family violence will be the public policy emphasis of the Women's Legislative Network for 2001-2002. The Network will be collaborating with a number of companies and organizations on this topic.

Family violence information will be available on our web site, discussed at the AFI/ASI meeting in December, and annual meeting in 2002. Please let us know if you have any legislation to share.