Profiles in Service: Bernie McNulty retires from California State Assembly after a nearly 30-year career.

When Mechelle Evans took a job with the Louisiana State Legislature as a full-time messenger in 1980, she had no idea it was the first step in a career that would span five decades—and counting. 

Veteran Alaska legislative staffer Aurora Hauke helps build relationships and nurture connections in a state known for its bipartisan and multipartisan coalitions. NCSL spoke with Hauke for its series “Profiles in Service.”

With his knack for technology, fiscal analyst Jonathan Ball has modernized the Utah Legislature’s appropriations process and empowered lawmakers to answer their own research questions. NCSL spoke with Ball for its series “Profiles in...

Amy Carlson took a circuitous route to her current role as director of Montana’s Legislative Fiscal Division. An early interest in math and economics started her on a roundabout path to state budgeting work. NCSL spoke to Carlson as part of...

Is there a “right” age to become a legislative leader? The job is often associated with a few gray hairs, but two house speakers in state capitols over 1,500 miles apart became two of the youngest in the modern era this year.