{"database": "openregs", "table": "congressional_record", "rows": [["CREC-1996-10-21-pt1-PgS12435-2", "1996-10-21", 104, 2, null, null, "THANKS TO STAFF", "SENATE", "SENATE", "ALLOTHER", "S12435", "S12439", "[{\"name\": \"Howell Heflin\", \"role\": \"speaking\"}]", null, "142 Cong. Rec. S12435", "Congressional Record, Volume 142 Issue 143 (Monday, October 21, 1996)\n\n[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 143 (Monday, October 21, 1996)]\n[Senate]\n[Pages S12435-S12439]\nFrom the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]\n\n                            THANKS TO STAFF\n\n Mr. HEFLIN. Mr. President, on the last day the Senate was in\nsession, October 4, I stood on the floor and briefly thanked my staff\nmembers for all their hard work over the years. At that time, I had a\nlist of their names, hometowns, and date of joining our staff inserted\ninto the Congressional Record. I also said that later, I would make\nadditional comments about each of those.\n  As I said, it is easy to take staff for granted. Much of what they do\nis carried out in such a way that we might not be aware always of what\nthey are doing. But they put in long hours just like we do. They are\ndedicated not only to us, but to the States we serve. My staff has\nhelped thousands of Alabamians and other citizens with problems,\nquestions, projects, and other general concerns.\n  I have been fortunate to have many long-time staff members who have\nbeen with me for many years, some since my first year in the Senate.\nOthers have not been here as long, but have still made valuable\ncontributions. Most have come from Alabama or had some connection to\nthe State, such as being an alumnus of a university there, but others\nhave come from the Washington area or other parts of the east coast.\n  I am proud of my staff, both here in Washington and in the four State\noffices. They have done an outstanding job for the Senate, for the\nState of Alabama, and for the Nation and I thank all of them and wish\nthem well as they retire or move on to new career opportunities. I\nwould now like to say a few words about each of those who are still\nserving with us during these final weeks of my term.\n\n                               steve raby\n\n  Heading up my Washington staff is Steve Raby, my administrative\nassistant. Over the years, Steve has been a tireless worker and voice\nfor the State of Alabama and the Nation. He has superb judgment and\nunsurpassable ability to motivate workers under his supervision. He\nfirst joined my staff in January 1984 as a legislative assistant\nfocusing on agriculture and rural development policy. In 1987, he\nbecame my administrative assistant, responsible for legislative and\npolitical matters affecting Alabama. Steve was born in Huntsville, AL,\nand received his bachelors and masters degrees from Auburn University.\nI have accused him numerous times of filling my staff with Auburn\ngraduates so he could have more support in the Auburn-Alabama football\nrivalry. Prior to joining my staff, Steve worked as a research\nassistant at the Federal Reserve Bank in Atlanta analyzing economic\nindicators of regional economy. Steve is married to the former Denise\nCole. They have two sons--Nathan and Keenan. I predict a great future\nfor him in anything he undertakes, including politics.\n\n                              winston lett\n\n  As ranking Democrat on the Judiciary Subcommittee on Administrative\n\n[[Page S12436]]\n\nOversight and the Courts, I have faced a myriad of interesting and\nchallenging issues. Since 1990, Winston Lett has served as Democratic\nchief counsel and staff director of this prestigious subcommittee and\nhas worked with me on multitudes of legislation. Born in Opelika, AL,\nWinston graduated from Auburn University and received his law degree\nfrom the University of Alabama. It is safe to say that Winston is a\nfavorite son of his hometown: The Opelika and Auburn Chambers of\nCommerce proclaimed ``Winston Lett Day'' in 1989. Aside from this\ndistinction, Winston was assistant attorney general in Alabama from\n1973 to 1977 before transferring to Washington as administrative\nassistant to the late Representative Bill Nichols of Alabama until\n1988. In 1989, Winston was administrative assistant to Representative\nGlen Browder before joining my staff a year later. Winston has been a\ncalm, steady voice amid many turbulent judiciary matters and I deeply\nappreciate his outstanding work. He is an excellent lawyer and has an\nexceptional ability to get along with people.\n\n                             denise addison\n\n  Denise Addison was born here in Washington, the fifth child of Elmer\nand Louise Meadows. She graduated from Saint Patrick's Academy in 1975\nand has been a fixture on Capitol Hill for 21 years now. She has worked\nfor an astounding number of Members of Congress, beginning with Senator\nJohn V. Tunney of California. Since then, she has also worked for\nCongressman Robert N.C. Nix of Pennsylvania; Senator Charles H. Percy\nof Illinois; Senator Robert Kasten of Wisconsin; and Senator Mark\nAndrews of North Dakota. She came to my office in 1988, and has been an\nintegral part of the success of our correspondence, computer, filing,\nand office management operations. She married Alvin Addison in 1985,\nand together they have three children, Alvin, Jr., Dominique, and\nJasmine.\n\n                       sonceria ann bishop berry\n\n  Every office has that one person who knows how to fix, find, and take\ncare of just about anything. In my office, that person is Sonceria Ann\nBishop Berry. Ann joined my Tuscumbia office in April 1979 and moved to\nWashington the following month as a secretary. She eventually served as\nassistant office manager before being promoted to office manager in\n1992. A native of Birmingham, AL, Ann received her bachelors degree\nfrom the University of North Alabama. She is married to Reginald A.\nBerry and they have one daughter, Elizabeth Ruth. Ann was one of my\nyoungest staff members when she arrived in Washington. I have seen her\ngrow up into a fine young woman. I am proud to have her as a member of\nmy staff. She is one of a kind.\n\n                         mary catherine brooks\n\n  Mary Catherine Brooks, or ``Cappie'' as she is known, joined my staff\nin March 1989 as assistant to my administrative assistant, Steve Raby.\nA native of Birmingham, AL, Cappie attended the University of Alabama\nand the Katherine Gibbs School in Boston, MA. During her years of\nservice on my staff, Cappie has tackled many special projects. One of\nthe most notable was the 1994 National Prayer Breakfast honoring\nPresident Bill Clinton. As chairman of the Senate Prayer Breakfast, I\nwas responsible for organizing a guest list of several thousand\ndignitaries from over 100 different countries. I relied heavily on\nCappie, who managed the event masterfully. President Clinton and Vice\nPresident Al Gore both thanked Cappie personally for her outstanding\nwork. Cappie's next special project is of a more personal nature: Her\nSpring 1997 wedding to Bill Stiers. She is most attractive as well as\nefficient.\n\n                               tim brown\n\n  Tim Brown has been my loyal and dedicated traveling companion over\nthe years. He has been with me to each and every county in Alabama at\none time or another. He has served as my State director, heading up all\nfour of my Alabama offices, since 1995. Prior to that, he was the field\nrepresentative responsible for 23 counties based out of Montgomery. He\ncame to my Montgomery office in 1985 after working on my campaign the\nprevious 2 years. He earned a bachelor of arts degree from Auburn\nUniversity in 1971 and his law degree from Jones Law School in 1976.\nFrom 1972 to 1983, he worked for his family's business--Brown and Sons,\nInc., a trucking and textiles company. Tim is from Enterprise, home of\nthe famous boll weevil statue. His father, the late M.N. ``Jug'' Brown\nwas mayor of Enterprise for 18 years. He is married to Cathy, an\nemployee of Alabama Power Co. His political instincts are sharp, and he\nhas been my eyes and ears in Alabama. He has been instrumental to the\neffectiveness of our State operations and no one could have done a\nbetter job of keeping me up-to-speed on local and State issues.\n\n                             beau greenwood\n\n  Beau Greenwood has been my agriculture legislative assistant since\nFebruary 1995. As we faced the formidable task of rewriting the farm\nbill in the 104th Congress, I relied heavily on Beau. He worked with me\nto ensure that southern agriculture was treated equitably. We faced a\ntremendous battle with the peanut program, but fortunately were\nsuccessful in defending this vital program. This long, grueling process\ncame to a successful conclusion thanks in no small part to Beau's\nefforts. Prior to serving on my staff, he worked for Representative\nCharlie Rose of North Carolina from 1992 to 1995. A native of Corpus\nChristi, Beau is the son of Allen Greenwood of Corpus Christi and\nSherri Moore Greenwood of Little Rock, AR. Beau attended Texas A&M\nUniversity and received his undergraduate degree from George Washington\nUniversity. He studies each issue carefully and is a master of details.\n\n                           joyce d. hackworth\n\n  Joyce Hackworth has been with me since the beginning of my Senate\ncareer, building on her legacy of working with Democratic Senators from\nAlabama. Born and raised in Montgomery, AL, she attended Troy State\nUniversity before going to work for Senator John Sparkman in January\n1971. In fact, Joyce moved to Birmingham to open Senator Sparkman's\nfirst State office. She remained with him until he retired in 1979. I\nwas elected to Senator Sparkman's seat that year and brought Joyce over\nto my staff. She has been the office manager in my Birmingham office\nsince January 1979, and says she plans to retire along with me. Her\nretirement date, effective January 2, 1997, will mark 26 continuous\nyears as a U.S. Senate staffer. Eighteen of those years have been spent\non my staff handling everything from casework to the wide range of\nconstituent requests that come into a Senate office on a daily basis. I\nappreciate her excellent work and colorful personality.\n\n                         henderson thad huguley\n\n  Thad Huguley, who has been with my Washington staff since 1992, hails\nfrom Lanett, AL. While a student at the University of Alabama, he\nserved as vice president of the Student Government Association, was\ninducted into numerous campus leadership and scholastic honor\nsocieties, and worked as a part-time field reporter for the CBS\naffiliate in Tuscaloosa. He began working for me as a legislative\ncorrespondent. As a legislative assistant since late 1993, Thad has\nbeen responsible for telecommunications, commerce, environmental,\nbanking, housing, transportation, and labor issues. He seems to have\ndelved into virtually every possible issue area at one time or another.\nHe is a jack-of-all-trades who was always able to master complex issues\nquickly. He has been a tremendous asset to my office and has been\ninstrumental in helping set and accomplish our legislative agenda. He\ncompleted his master of arts in American history at American University\nin May 1996.\n\n                           lea aldridge hurt\n\n  Lea Hurt has been writing media releases, producing television and\nradio feeds and juggling reporter queries in my press office since July\n1991. Before joining my staff, she was a familiar face on my hometown\ntelevision station, WOWL-15 NBC, in Florence, AL, where she anchored\nthe evening news. After moving to Annapolis in 1990 to be with her new\nhusband Jay, Lea worked as an assignment editor at Sun World Satellite\nNews until I hired her a year later to be my assistant press secretary.\nNow, as communications director, Lea handles a wide range of issues. A\nnative of Decatur, AL, Lea is the daughter of Linda and Walter Brooks.\nShe attended Calhoun Community College in Decatur, where she was SGA\npresident, before graduating from the University of North Alabama with\na\n\n[[Page S12437]]\n\ndegree in English. Lea and I work together every week to produce my\nweekly column. I figured recently that we have put out around 280\ncolumns on topics ranging from the balanced budget amendment to\nconstituent services. I have appreciated her hard work, pleasant\npersonality, and dedication. She always presents an attractive\nappearance. I wish her every future success.\n\n                             brenda jarvis\n\n  Brenda Jarvis knows Montgomery--everything from the city streets to\nthe State legislature. It is her hometown as well as where she now\nlives with her husband Jake and two children, Heather and Ricki Marie.\nBrenda joined my staff as a field representative in 1990, working with\nconstituents, State agencies, the State legislature, local governments\nand chambers of commerce. Prior to that, she served as a member of\nGovernor George Wallace's staff from 1971 to 1979 as an administrative\nassistant working with legislation, extraditions, the Department of\nCorrections, the Board of Pardon and Parole, the Department of Public\nSafety, court matters as well as appointments to boards, agencies and\ncourts. From 1983 to 1987, Governor Wallace appointed her to be\nassistant director of the State Commission on Aging responsible for the\nState administration of the Older Americans Act. With her extensive\ncareer background, Brenda has been an invaluable help to me in many\nmatters over the years. I have enjoyed working with her.\n\n                           mary janet johnson\n\n  Jan Johnson was one of the original ``Howell's Angels'' in my 1978\ncampaign for U.S. Senate. She and other volunteers worked many long\nhours for my election and, thanks to these efforts, we were successful.\nWhen I took office, Jan joined my staff working out of my Tuscumbia\noffice as a field representative and State aide, continuing her legacy\nof long hours and hard work. In her 18 years on my Senate staff, Jan\nhas traveled the State of Alabama like few others have. She knows the\n``where'' and the ``who'' and can tell you the always-fascinating\nhistory that goes with it. Jan was born in Franklin County to Oscar and\nNelda Lois Jackson. She has a son, Jacob Johnson, and a daughter, Mary\nElizabeth Johnson Cahoon. I have depended on her greatly over the years\nand have appreciated her hard work.\n\n                              jeanne jones\n\n  Since September 1982, Jeanne Jones has been a case worker and\nsecretary in my Mobile office. For many years, Jeanne was the right-\nhand for Bob Morrissette, my dear friend and field representative in\nMobile who passed away only recently. The daughter of Mr. and Mrs.\nJames C. Lloyd, Jeanne was born in Birmingham, AL. She graduated from\nShades Valley High School and attended Jacksonville State University\nand the University of South Alabama. Jeanne moved to Juneau to work for\nthe State of Alaska for 2 years before returning to Alabama to live in\nMobile in 1971. She has three children: Jeri, Jana and Jill; one son-\nin-law, Dirk, and two grandchildren, Taylor and Shelby. For 14 years,\nJeanne has helped thousands of people in south Alabama with countless\nissues. I appreciate her dedicated work and tireless efforts on my\nbehalf.\n\n                         betty streeter lanier\n\n  Betty Lanier has been serving on my staff for more than 10 years now\nas a secretary and staff assistant. Most recently, she has worked\nextensively with the legislative director, serving as his right hand in\nterms of managing his heavy load of casework, correspondence, and\nlegislative schedule. Previously, Betty worked for Illinois Senator\nPaul Simon and for a short time for Congressman Claude Pepper's House\nof Representatives Subcommittee on Health and Long-term Care. She also\nworked for several offices within the Department of Justice, including\nthe Federal Bureau of Investigation, which brought her to Washington.\nFrom the small Bullock County town of Midway, AL, Betty is endowed with\na variety of talents. She is a member of the Congressional Chorus, and\nhas performed with the group at inaugurations, annual lightings of the\nCapitol Christmas tree, and Kennedy Center Arts Festivals. In addition,\nshe has taken several Shakespearean acting classes. A post and avid\nreader, she has done an outstanding job and brought a real cultural and\nartistic flair to the office.\n\n                               alan leeth\n\n  Alan Leeth has been a legislative assistant and counsel in my office\nsince December 1995, responsible for banking, budget, tax issues and\nIndian affairs. In the year that he has been with me, he has helped me\ndevelop and plan legislative initiatives, monitor developments within\ncommittees and on the Senate floor. Alan is from Opelika, AL, and is\nthe son of Roy and Carol Leeth. He graduated from the University of\nAlabama at Birmingham and received his law degree from my law school\nalma mater, the University of Alabama, where he met his wife Tracy.\nAlan has been a tremendous asset to my staff and I am sure I will\ncontinue to hear great things from him in the future.\n\n                        william mansel long, jr.\n\n  William Mansel Long, Jr. began working in my Washington office in\n1979 as a legislative assistant. Since that time, he has moved up the\nranks and currently serves as legislative director. Mansel has proven\nhimself to be a close friend, loyal employee, and trusted advisor. I\nhave known him and his family for many years; he is also a native of\nTuscumbia. He served in the Army for 2 years, earning a Good Conduct\nMedal. He received a bachelor of arts degree from Tennessee State\nUniversity, and has taken graduate courses at Alabama A&M University,\nDistrict of Columbia Teachers College, The American University,\nCatholic University, Trinity College, and George Washington University.\nBefore joining my staff, Mansel was a social studies teacher, special\neducation teacher, and a consultant for International Business\nServices. He has received numerous honors and awards, and received a\nDoctor of Humane Letters degree from Faulkner University in 1984. ``Dr.\nLong,'' as the staff affectionately calls him, has been an outstanding\npublic servant and I could not imagine having served in the Senate\nwithout his assistance and leadership.\n\n                              judy lovell\n\n  Judy Lovell has been my correspondence manager since 1990. In those 6\nyears, she has helped me develop and maintain an office mail management\nplan to deal with the thousands of letters we receive every week. Judy\ntakes care of the mail in a full circle approach. She directs the\nincoming mail to the appropriate person and then oversees the final\nreturn mailing process, scrutinizing everything from grammar to\ncontent. Aside from her outstanding work, Judy is also known for her\nexcellent bean dip, which we have been fortunate enough to frequently\nsample over the years. Before joining my staff, Judy worked for Senator\nHoward Cannon of Nevada from 1981 to 1983, and Senator John Danforth of\nMissouri from 1983 to 1990. She and her husband John live in Bowie, MD,\nand have four children: John, Tim, Terry, and Tracy; and one\ngrandchild, Katy.\n\n                             kristi mashon\n\n  Kristi Mashon has taken on the herculean task of archiving documents\nfrom my career as a Senator and as chief justice of the Alabama Supreme\nCourt. She has been working with me on this project since June 1995.\nKristi previously served as archivist for Senator George Mitchell of\nMaine and is also currently working for Senator Patrick Leahy of\nVermont. A native of Austin, TX, Kristi is the daughter of Les and\nBarbara King. She graduated from the University of Texas in 1988 and\ncompleted her graduate education at the University of Maryland in 1995.\nKristi and her husband Mike have one daughter, Madeleine, who recently\ncelebrated her second birthday. I have appreciated Kristi's thorough\nwork and attention to detail. I am confident that my documents and\nmemorabilia are in good hands.\n\n                           kimberly mcdonald\n\n  Kim has been with my staff since November 1991. She started out as a\nlegislative correspondent, researching and formulating responses to\nconstituent mail. In 1995, she was promoted to caseworker where she\nacts as a liaison between constituents and Federal, State or local\ngovernment agencies. Her areas of responsibility include Aging, Foreign\nAffairs, Government Affairs, Health, Immigration, Labor, Postal Affairs\nand Social Security. As you can imagine, with such a wide range of\nissues, Kim stays busy. She has worked\n\n[[Page S12438]]\n\nwith me to help countless Alabamians who thought they had no where to\nturn. It was only about a year ago that our staff celebrated Kim's\nmarriage to Curtis F.M. McDonald, our last ``office'' wedding. I have\nenjoyed working with Kim and am sure that she will continue to achieve\ngreat things.\n\n                              tom mcmahon\n\n  Tom McMahon has been my press secretary since February 1989. As my\nchief spokesperson, Tom has to be conversant on a wide variety of\nissues. In this area he has proven himself as a true ``renaissance\nman,'' able to knowledgeably discuss everything from bankruptcy reform\nto crop insurance. Tom came to Washington in 1987 as press secretary to\nthe late Representative Bill Nichols of Alabama. Prior to that, he\nworked in university relations at his alma mater, Auburn University. In\nfact, Tom leads the ``Auburn gang'' in my office as a former president\nof the Metro Washington Auburn Club. He graduated from Auburn in 1984\nwith a degree in communications. Before graduation, he was station\nmanager at Auburn's WEGL-FM radio and worked as an anchor and reporter\nat WAUD-AM radio, also in Auburn. He and his wife Diane, a native of\nScottsboro, AL, now live in the Washington area. I have appreciated the\noutstanding work Tom has done over the years and am sure we will\ncontinue to hear great things from him in the future.\n\n                          jacqueline a. natter\n\n  Jackie joined my staff as a legislative correspondent in November\n1994, after serving an internship at the State Department's Bureau for\nPolitical-Military Affairs. While she was studying international\nrelations and English at Georgetown University, from which she\ngraduated in 1994, Jackie completed an internship in my office and\nworked as a research assistant for the National War College. As a self-\ndescribed ``military brat,'' her interest in military affairs started\nat a very young age, and has continued through her academic and\nprofessional work. Currently serving as a legislative assistant\nhandling national defense, space, and veterans issues, Jackie also\ncoordinates my military services academy nominations. She is the middle\ndaughter of Rear Admiral Jack and Nancy Natter of Birmingham and is\nlooking forward to returning to Alabama at some point in the future.\nShe has been a valuable addition to my staff and I know she will make\ntangible contributions to the fields of national defense and foreign\npolicy in the future.\n\n                              barry phelps\n\n  A native of the Birmingham, AL area, Barry Phelps moved to Washington\nin 1989 after completing his master of public administration and\nbachelor of arts degrees at the University of Alabama. He came to work\nfor my office in the fall of 1990 as a legislative correspondent and 1\nyear later became my speechwriter. Since that time, he has\nsimultaneously handled legislative issues relating to foreign policy,\ninternational trade, and general governmental affairs. In addition to\nbeing an excellent ``wordsmith,'' Barry has also been instrumental to\nmy work as chairman of the Senate delegation to the North Atlantic\nAssembly, traveling either with me or as my representative to NAA\nmeetings in Berlin, Germany; Copenhagen, Denmark; Oslo, Norway; and\nTurin, Italy. In the fall of 1993, he began the graduate liberal arts\nprogram at Georgetown University, attending classes in the evenings and\non weekends. He completed his master of arts degree there in April\n1996, concentrating his studies in the area of international affairs.\nWe were not surprised to learn that Barry was ranked first in his\ngraduating class and had the honor of serving as commencement marshall.\n\n                             robert schultz\n\n  Bob Schultz has been an outstanding recent addition to my staff in\nWashington. A Pennsylvania native and graduate of Dickinson College in\nCarlisle, Rob was brought on board earlier this year to handle the\nimportant task of compiling and summarizing my 18-year Senate\nlegislative record. He completed a similar project for former Senator\nDon Riegle of Michigan in 1993 and 1994. Since he has been here, he has\ncompiled my record in certain policy areas, such as defense and foreign\npolicy, agriculture, court reform and judiciary, civil rights, and\nspace exploration and NASA. Rob has done an incredible job under severe\ntime constraints, and we could not have succeeded without him.\n\n                            barbara sherrill\n\n  I noted in my retirement announcement that Tuscumbia, AL, is the best\nlittle town in America to go home to. Barbara Sherrill, a secretary and\ncaseworker in my Tuscumbia office, figured that out years ago. A native\nof Waukegan, IL, Barbara worked in Washington, DC, for the Air Force at\nthe Pentagon. Her husband, Estes, is a native of Tuscumbia, so in 1971\nafter he retired as an Air Force pilot, their family moved back to that\narea. Barbara joined my staff in 1985, working with my chief of staff,\nthe late Bill Gardiner. Her assistance has been invaluable to me as\nwell as to the many constituents who call or drop by the Tuscumbia\noffice seeking help. She has said that her greatest reward is hearing\nconstituents say that the help they received from our office has made a\ndifference in their lives. Barbara has three children--Beth, Martha,\nand Andy--and three grandchildren--Benjamin, Elizabeth, and Rachel.\n\n                             samantha smith\n\n  Two positions in a Senate office that are usually considered\n``gatekeepers'' to the member are receptionist and personal scheduler.\nBy that definition, Samantha Smith is the ultimate ``gatekeeper,''\nserving on my staff since August 1993--first as a receptionist and then\nas scheduler. Born in Florence, AL, she is the middle daughter of Judge\nand Mrs. Larry Mack Smith. Samantha graduated from Hollins College in\nVirginia in 1992 with a degree in French. She spent a total of 2 years\nin France both as a student and as a teacher before joining my staff.\nHer ability to juggle the hectic schedule requests that come into my\noffice has been a tremendous asset to me. I appreciate the fine job she\nhas done.\n\n                             mary k. speis\n\n  Mary Speis has been with my staff ever since the beginning of my\ntenure in 1979. Her career on Capitol Hill, however, goes all the way\nback to 1965, when she served as an assistant to former Illinois\nCongressman Barratt O'Hara. A native of Washington, DC, her Alabama\nties came about thanks to her sister, Jackie, who worked for Alabama\nCongressman Tom Bevill before moving to Athens, Greece to be with her\nhusband, a native of that beautiful country. Mary has often visited her\nsister in Greece during the summer recess periods. A graduate of the\nUniversity of Maryland with a fine arts degree, she landed a job with\nformer Alabama Senator James B. Allen working with the legislative\nassistants. In 1978, after the death of Senator Allen, she worked for\nhis wife, Marion, who succeeded him in the Senate. In 1979, she came to\nmy office to serve as an aid to the legislative assistants. In 1985,\nshe began working as my personal assistant and has become very special\nto me and the rest of the staff.\n\n                        yolanda angeline turner\n\n  Yolanda Turner came on board our ``Senate ship'' in August 1992 as a\nstaff assistant working with the office manager and correspondence\nmanagement staff. The daughter of Mrs. Velda A. Ragland and Mr. Glenn\nA. Turner, she is from Suitland, MD. Her mother and sister, Monique A.\nTurner, work for Senator Bill Bradley, just down the hall from Yolanda.\nTheir work in the Senate is truly a ``family affair.'' Before joining\nour office, she was a clerk typist for the resource management staff at\nthe U.S. Department of Agriculture. We were all excited earlier this\nyear by the birth of Yolanda's daughter, Breanna Akira Turner.\n\n                             Stanley vines\n\n  If you want to know about voting statistics and election demographics\nin the State of Alabama, Stanley Vines is the man to see. With over 20\nyears of involvement in Alabama politics, he has gathered a wealth of\ninformation about voting trends. Stanley's political bloodline runs\ndeep--his father's family has been active in politics in the Bessemer\narea for over a century. He began political work in 1976 and since that\ntime, has set up phone banks and helped runs numerous campaigns for\nAlabama candidates. Stanley began serving as field representative in my\nBirmingham office in 1982, after a 41-year career with American Cast\nIron Pipe Co. In the years since, he has helped me better present the\npeople of\n\n[[Page S12439]]\n\nAlabama by keeping me abreast of the issues and events going on in that\narea. Born in Watson, AL, Stanley graduated from Birmingham's Phillips\nHigh School and attended Jefferson State Junior College. Stanley and\nhis wife, Ethel Catherine Vines, have two sons, Thomas and James.\n\n                              heidi wagner\n\n  Heidi Wagner has served as a front-office receptionist in my personal\noffice and most recently as clerk and staff assistant for the\nSubcommittee on Administrative Oversight and the Courts minority staff.\nA Mobile, AL native, she graduated from the University of South Alabama\nand is working on a masters degree at American University here in\nWashington. She is the portrait of cool under pressure, since she is\nalways able to handle even the most demanding tasks and situations with\ngrace, professionalism, and good humor. She is sort of a word\n``connoisseur,'' constantly challenging staff with the presentation of\nnew words and definitions to enhance their vocabulary. Her ``Word of\nthe Day'' feature appearing on computer screens each morning was often\na welcome way to begin the day.\n\n                             sally walburn\n\n  The first voice you hear when you call into my Washington office is\nthat of Sally Walburn. Her cheery ``Senator Heflin's office, this is\nSally. May I help you?'' has opened up hundreds of conversations with\nAlabamians. Sally has been my receptionist since June 1996. A native of\nTuscaloosa, AL, she is the youngest child of Dr. and Mrs. James\nWalburn. Sally graduated from Ole Miss in May 1996 with a degree in\nEnglish. Although her time on my staff has been brief, she has\ndemonstrated her outstanding abilities in dealing with constituents on\nthe ``front line.'' I wish her every future success.\n\n                          james g. whiddon iii\n\n  Jim Whiddon is currently serving as my counsel on the Subcommittee on\nAdministrative Oversight and the Courts and as legislative assistant\nfor energy and natural resources issues. He has done an outstanding job\non these and other issues that have come his way since joining the\nstaff in 1993. He has been especially helpful on bankruptcy reform and\nthe constitutional amendment to ban flag burning. Before moving to\nWashington, he worked in Atlanta. Jim, a native of Montgomery, attended\nthe University of Alabama, where he earned his bachelor of science\ndegree at Samford University in Birmingham, where he obtained his juris\ndoctor degree from the Cumberland School of Law. He served as a law\nclerk to the Honorable Rodney R. Steele, Chief Judge of the U.S.\nBankruptcy Court for the Middle District of Alabama.\n\n                         janetta whitt-mitchell\n\n  Janetta Whitt-Mitchell is a native of Mobile, AL. She graduated from\nTuskegee University and is a longtime community activist and energetic\nadvocate for the improvement of social conditions. Through her work as\nmy Mobile field representative and other leadership activities, she had\nhelped communities address needs related to health care, employment,\nhuman rights, education, law enforcement, economics, and drug abuse.\nShe is a member of the New South Coalition and an associate of the\nNational Organization for Women. She is also first vice president of\nMobile's Human Rights Commission and serves on the board of directors\nof the National Coalition of 100 Black Women's Mobile County Chapter.\nThe daughter of Mr. Charles and Mrs. Mary Lee Whitt, she is married to\nDr. Joseph Colvis Mitchell. 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