Staff Snapshots | Q&As With Legislative Staff

5/5/2022

Welcome to NCSL’s “Staff Snapshots” series! Legislative staff from each of the 50 states, the District of Columbia and the territories are telling us about their roles in the legislature, what inspires them and what they love about their jobs. They also offer some great tips on what to read, watch and listen to!

Click a postal abbreviation on the map below for a profile of a staffer from that state or territory.

The series is open to all staffers. Know someone who should be included?

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	Nangisa Mai is the assistant clerk for Committee Affairs in the Palau House of Delegates. Read more.		Thomas W. Miller is the executive director of the House Finance Committee in the Pennsylvania General Assembly. Read more.
	Dustin Heath Morgan is the deputy sergeant-at-arms for the Florida Senate. Read more.		Adam Elias is the director of State House security for the Massachusetts General Court. Read more.
	Jamie Plume is the chief committee clerk in the Rhode Island Senate. Read more.		Annette Haldeman is the library director in the Maryland Department of Legislative Services. Read more.
	Rebecca Silbernagel is the journal clerk of the Vermont House of Representatives. Read more.		Ryan Frost is an information officer in the Wyoming Legislative Service Office. Read more.
	Hannah Grunewald is a fiscal analyst in the Minnesota Senate. Read more.		Brian J. Bean is a senior policy advisor in the Utah Senate. Read more.
	Blake Doss is a policy analyst in the Georgia House of Representatives. Read more.		Andrea Wilko is the chief economist for the Utah Legislature. Read more.
	Jennifer Foor is the assistant director of House Committee Services in the New Hampshire House of Representatives. Read more.		Jonathan Ball is the legislative fiscal analyst for the Utah Legislature. Read more.
	Kevin Drennan is the executive director of New Jersey’s Senate Majority Office. Read more.		Shelby Holland is a human resources generalist in the North Carolina General Assembly. Read more.
	Giovanni R. Randazzo is the parliamentarian of the Illinois Senate and chief legal counsel to the Senate president and the Senate Democratic Caucus. Read more.		Jim Bell is director of Senate Technology Services for the New York Senate. Read more.
	Perry John P. Tenorio is the Legislative Bureau director for the Northern Marianas Commonwealth Legislature. Read more.		Eric Robbins is a legislative attorney for the Nevada Legislature. Read more.
	Louis Lindstrom is the acting director of civic education for the Washington Senate. Read more.		Ingrid Hernquist is the manager of New Jersey’s Office of Legislative Services. Read more.
	Darek Grant is the secretary of the Maine Senate. Read more.		Anne Blankenhorn is an education policy advisor in Michigan. Read more.
	Sarah G. Elmore-Hernandez is chief of staff for Sen. Mary Camacho Torres in the Guam Legislature. Read more.		Jeff Lunardi is the executive director of Virginia’s Joint Commission on Health Care. Read more.
	Misty Mason Freeman is the director of Oregon’s Legislative Policy and Research Office. Read more.		Susan Swords Susan Swords is the assistant director of public information in the New Jersey Office of Legislative Services. Read more.
	Matt Gehring is staff coordinator and attorney with the Minnesota House Research Department. Read more.		Steve Pike is chief of Virginia’s Capitol Police. Read more.
	Anne Landgrebe is the administrative clerk in the West Virginia House Clerk’s Office. Read more.		Michael “MJ” Jackson is assistant coordinator of committee operations for the Virginia Senate. Read more.
	Krystle Fernandez is the chief clerk in the Arizona House of Representatives. Read more.		John Bjornson is the director of the North Dakota Legislative Council. Read more.
	Raphael ‘Drhett’ Baca is the building superintendent at the New Mexico Capitol. Read more.		Lonnie Edgar is the deputy director of Mississippi’s Performance Evaluation Committee. Read more.
	Lisa James Moomaw is an application support analyst with the Colorado Legislative Council. Read more.		Reed Holwegner is the director of legislative research for the South Dakota Legislature. Read more.
	Holly Vaughn Wagner is the deputy director and legislative attorney for the Division of Research, Delaware General Assembly. Read more.		Kristen Rottinghaus is the performance audit manager for the Kansas Legislature. Read more.
	David J. Kaschak is New Jersey’s state auditor. Read more.		Jill Turetsky is the director of media services for the Texas Senate. Read more.
	Cesar Melgarejo is a senior policy analyst with Nevada’s Legislative Counsel Bureau. Read more.		Lisa Davis is the deputy assistant clerk of the Mississippi House of Representatives. Read more.
	Kate Heltzel is director of the Unicameral Information Office of the Nebraska Legislature. Read more.		Leonel A. Chancey is a policy analyst in the House Rules Office of the Georgia General Assembly. Read more.
	Pad McCracken is a researcher and bill drafter for the Montana Legislature. Read more.		José R. Rodríguez-Amorós is deputy clerk of the Puerto Rico Senate. Read more.
	Nellie Moran is chief of staff to the Colorado Senate Democratic Caucus. Read more.		Nathan Elwood is Missouri’s legislative library administrator. Read more.
	Duneshka Carmona is the tourism director at the Puerto Rico Capitol in San Juan. Read more.		Lisa Lovello is a legislative analyst for the Louisiana House Committee on Education. Read more.
	Virginia J. Drew is the director of the New Hampshire State House Visitor Center. Read more.		John T. Vines is chief legal counsel for the Arkansas House of Representatives. Read more.
	Keisha Leung is a legislative researcher in the U.S. Virgin Islands. Read more.		Tally Teal is the capital budget coordinator and chief of staff for the Alaska Legislature. Read more.
	Melody DeBussey directs the Georgia Senate Budget and Evaluation Office. Read more.		Jessica Harmon directs the Office of Fiscal and Management Analysis in the Indiana Legislative Services Agency. Read more.
	Michelle O’Brien is a special projects coordinator, Legislative Services Office, in Idaho. Read more.		Heshani Wijemanne is the assistant secretary of the California Senate. Read more.
	Tara Boockholdt is a budget and policy analyst, House Budget and Research Office, in Georgia. Read more.		Rachel Weiss is a legislative research analyst in Montana’s Legislative Services Division. Read more.
	Russell Moore is the director of the Tennessee Office of Research and Education Accountability. Read more.		Jen Waldref is the communications director for the Washington House Democrats. Read more.
	Richard Pearce is the legal counsel to the South Carolina House clerk. Read more.		Andrew Carpenter is the assistant secretary and journal clerk for the Colorado Senate. Read more.
	Nate Rohan is the deputy director of Wisconsin’s nonpartisan Legislative Technology Services Bureau. Read more.		Jackie Little is the human resources director for the Maine Legislature. Read more.
	Joel Rudnick is a legislative librarian with the Delaware General Assembly. Read more.		Jimmetta Gourdine and her daughter Jessica Brown both work for the Alabama Legislature. Read more.
	Karen Mau is a research librarian at the Hawaii Legislative Reference Bureau Library. Read more.		Ali Sagraves is a clerk for the Ohio House of Representatives. Read more.
	Jay Pearson is director for the Virginia House of Delegates Information and Communications Services Office and elected as the sergeant-at-arms. Read more.		Becky King is a systems analyst for the Kentucky Legislative Research Commission’s Office of Computing and Information Technology. Read more.
	Brian Ebbert is the floor director for the California Assembly speaker. Read more.		Meggan Foesch is the business manager for the Wisconsin Senate. Read more.
	Lena M. Lee is a research librarian for the South Carolina Legislative Council. Read more.		Brian L. Takeshita is the chief clerk of the House of Representatives in Hawaii. Read more.
	Anthony Aycock is the legislative librarian for the North Carolina General Assembly. Read more.		Kathleen Patterson heads the Office of the District of Columbia Auditor in Washington, D.C. Read more.
	C.M. Park Kaleiwahea is the assistant sergeant-at-arms for the Hawaii Senate. Read more.		Jeff Wice is the special counsel for the New York State Assembly. Read more.
	Molly McAllister is the training and staff development coordinator for the Connecticut General Assembly. Read more.		Brandon White is a senior legislative committee analyst in the Kentucky General Assembly. Read more.
	Porscha Miner is a senior budget analyst in the Mississippi Legislative Budget Office. Read more.		Monique Appeaning is a fiscal analyst and special projects coordinator in Louisiana’s Legislative Fiscal Office. Read more.
	Melissa Schmidt is principal attorney with the Wisconsin Legislative Council. Read more.		Angela L. Allen is the deputy manager and bill clerk for the Michigan Senate. Read more.