Experience

National Association of Parliamentarians (see: parliamentarians.org)

• Director, District 5 of NAP. District 5 includes Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, and unchartered areas of Iowa, North Dakota, South Dakota, Manitoba, Nunavut, and Saskatchewan.

• Coordinator, NAP Virtual Spring Conference, May 31, 2025

  “Parliamentary Solutions: The Intersection of Parliamentary Procedure and Technology”

• Member, Youth Committee, September 2023 to August 2025

Minnesota State Association of Parliamentarians, a constituent member of the National Association of Parliamentarians (see: msap.us)

• Webmaster, MSAP, 2024 to date.

• Vice President and Convention Chair, MSAP, 2024-2025

• Chair, Bylaws Committee, MSAP, 2023-2024

• Chair, Nominating Committee, MSAP, 2023-2024

• President, MSAP, 2021-2023

• Vice President/Convention Chair, MSAP, 2018-2021

For the St. Paul Unit (SPU):

• Bylaws Committee Chair, 2023 and 2024

• Education Chair, 2021 and 2022

• President, 2019 and 2020

• Vice President, 2017 and 2018

• Secretary, 2015 and 2016

Lester L. Dahms Memorial Foundation (see: dahmsfoundation.org)

• Vice-president, December 2025 to December 2026

• Secretary, November 2022 to November 2025

• Trustee, November 2021 to November 2027

League of Women Voters Minnesota (LWVMN) (see:lwvmn.org)

• Board member and Secretary, April 2019 to June 2021

• Chair, Bylaws Committee, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019, 2025

• Co-editor of the Briefing Paper: The Impact of Neonicotinoids on Honey Bees, published 2016

• Co-author of the Briefing Paper: Election Law: Absentee Ballots, published 2010

• Co-Chair, Judicial Study Committee, 2007

• Board member, 2001 to 2007

• Member, White Bear Area League, a local league of LWVMN

Stillwater Area Community Foundation (see: stillwaterareafoundation.org)

• Chair, September 2017–September 2019

• Secretary, October 2015–September 2017

• Board Member, 2014–October 2020

• Preparation of opinions related to adjourned meetings; board governance; nominating committees; removal of officers; board structure; executive committee compliance; annual meeting elections; amendment of bylaws; and amendment of previously adopted motions.

• Shipwrecked. A presentation at the NAP-EF workshop “When Captain Bligh - or the Assembly - is in the Chair”, March 6, 2026.

• All Things Special in RONR. A workshop presented to the Metairie, LA unit of NAP on February 2, 2026.

• All by Myself: Motions Needing No Second. A workshop presented to the Metairie, LA unit of NAP on August 4, 2025.

• Quantum of Quorum. A workshop presented to the eNAP unit of NAP on April 14, 2025.

• Annual MSAP Seminar, January 25, 2025. Member’s Rights, presentation of session 1 on Parliamentary Fundamentals.

• Everything Was Going So Well—or Was It? A workshop presented with Lucy H. Johnson, PRP, and Josh C. Martin, PRP, at the NAP Training Conference, San Antonio, TX, September 7, 2024.

• Parliamentarians in Peril: Proxies. A workshop presented with David Whitaker, PRP, at the NAP Training Conference, San Antonio, TX, September 7, 2024.

• Robert’s Rules; Why Have Rules? A presentation to Northfield, MN’s Boards and Commissions, October 24, 2023.

• Robert’s, Briefly: the Muriel Miller Memorial Workshop. Part I: October 21, 2023; Part II: April 13, 2024 One of three presenters for a workshop for the general public on the basics of Robert’s Rules, based on Robert’s Rules of Order In Brief. Sponsored by the St. Paul Unit.

• Annual MSAP Seminar, January 28, 2023 Meetings: A Sprint or a Marathon, presentation of session 2: Motions and their Amendment (via Zoom)

• Community faculty member for Metro State University in St. Paul, MN for Topics in Advocacy: Parliamentary Procedure, Masters in Advocacy and Political Leadership (MAPL) 668-02, a two credit course on nonprofit governance, May-June, 2022

• Annual MSAP Seminar, January 29, 2022 Meetings Without Misery; presentation of session 3: Avoiding Board-dom: Committees (via Zoom)

• Presentation of a lesson on Quorum to the AIP Adopt-in-Lieu-of Chapter, December 28, 2021 (via Zoom)

• Presentation of Meetings at Metro State University, as guest lecturer for a Political and Advocacy Leadership Class (MAPL 611), March 5, 2021 (via Zoom) and October 8, 2021 (in person)

• Presentation of Running an Effective Board Meeting (Robert’s Rules), part of a series of seminars presented by the St. Croix Valley Foundation Consultants in Service program, February 16, 2021 (via Zoom)

• Annual MSAP Seminar, January 29 and 30, 2021 Have a More Effective Board Meeting: Get Home Before Midnight ; Presentation of Session 1: Order or Chaos? (via Zoom)

• Preparation of scripts for state conventions of LWVMN (2013, 2015, 2017 and 2019)