Sentences with phrase «career in public office»

Although Tom Coburn is a medical doctor, he has spent his career in public office attacking and denying scientific work of so many kinds.

For DeFrancisco, the leap into the GOP governor's race and a potential matchup with Cuomo in November will culminate a 40 - year career in public office in which he has never lost an election.

After a near 40 - year career in public office, State Senator Kathy Marchione announced Wednesday she will not seek re-election in November.

After a near 40 - year career in public office, state Sen. Kathy Marchione announced Wednesday she will not seek re-election in November and party leaders are searching for her replacement ahead of the November general election.

Not exact matches

Halloran's four - decade career includes jobs in health care, industry, public service and public office.

Mr. Mosbacher had a distinguished public service career that included serving as Chairman of the Board of the Texas Department of Human Services and as a staff member in the office of Senator Howard Baker of Tennessee.

He has a long career in government and has served as deputy secretary to the cabinet at the Privy Council Office, associate deputy minister and then acting deputy minister at Public Safety Canada, associate assistant deputy minister of energy policy and assistant deputy minister of international trade and finance.

We do not need another career politician like Obama who was in public office because he was incompetent and could not succeed in real life.

She began her career as a writer in a small college public relations office in 1986.

His international public health and development career spans five decades, including more than 30 years with agencies of the United Nations system (International Labour Office, United Nations Children's Fund, and the World Health Organization where he was the liaison officer (1990 — 2004) for LLLI), and seven years working in Turkey, Cameroon and Haiti.

«The governor has spent his entire career in public service fighting homelessness and building affordable housing,» Gov. Andrew Cuomo's office said.

UKIP's Nigel Farage comes closest to passing this test, having been a commodities trader; however it is a moot point these days whether a previous career in finance impresses voters more than having been in public relations (Cameron), the office of a Labour front - bencher (Ed Miliband) or the European Commission (Nick Clegg).

Richard Ravitch's latest job in a distinguished career attending to public affairs in New York has him calling, as a lieutenant governor in his final months in office, for an overhaul of the state's Medicaid system that could be the foundation of a true legacy.

With potential campaign finance law violations under scrutiny, one person said, the Cohen investigation was assigned to career prosecutors in the office's elite public corruption unit, which has a track record of convicting politicians on both sides of the aisle.

But Rangel, in what is almost certainly his last bid for public office, is facing an unusually potent alignment of forces that make this the most difficult race of his career since he unseated longtime Rep. Adam Clayton Powell Jr. (D) in 1970.

While she acknowledges that «in today's climate it would be crazy not to think about running for office,» she also is concerned about what a return to public life might do to her professional career: «I have clients, a team and regulations that demand my time.»

Iowa's senior senator, Republican Charles E. Grassley, who celebrates his 82nd birthday Thursday, is a long - distance runner, both in his political career (first elected to public office in 1958 as a member of the Iowa Legislature) and in his exercise regimen.

The usual trajectory of a political career is first to be a public servant and eat bread from the sweat of one's brow, and then after a time to leave office and cash in as a lobbyist.

A successful businessperson, who has never held public office, but has worked in finance and is running to help steer New York through the current financial crisis, or A career elected official who is running on his experience in politics and government and knows how to create efficient state budgets,» the business person beat the career elected official 53 - 30.

In contrast, Assemblymember Guillermo Linares, who was the first Dominican to be elected to public office in 1991, touted his extensive career in office as a proven track recorIn contrast, Assemblymember Guillermo Linares, who was the first Dominican to be elected to public office in 1991, touted his extensive career in office as a proven track recorin 1991, touted his extensive career in office as a proven track recorin office as a proven track record.

His public service career began when he was elected as a trustee to the Mineola Board of Education at the age of 18, making him the first 18 - year - old in New York State to hold public office.

He ran for public office after a distinguished Army career in 2010, declared he'd serve only four terms and then decided after three to return to academia.

While he has not held office, Moya said he has worked in public service for his entire career.

Adesina started his career at the Governor's office, Secretariat, Ibadan in 1982 and later worked in various capacities in both the public and private sectors including the Lagos State Library Board.

Sarah still serves in the education and public affairs office of the Society for Experimental Biology (SEB) where she combines her background in biological sciences with her experience and skills in science communication, career guidance, and personality profiling.

Director Dot Harris, Office of Economic Impact and Diversity at the Department of Energy, will be on the line with Dr. Rebecca Spyke - Keiser, Associate Deputy Administrator for Strategy and Policy at NASA; Jill Fuss, Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Stephanie Stilson, Engineer at Kennedy Space Center and NASA Headquarters, and a class at Andrew Jackson Middle School in Titusville, Florida, to discuss ways to find role models for young people in STEM fields and answer questions from students and the general public about STEM careers.

Yet to be umbilically linked in the public mind to a single character is the last thing Grant needed at that point in his career, especially since he'd spent a full decade trying to shake off the image of the floppy - haired, tongue - tied bumbler that had clung to him like a leech ever since Four Weddings And A Funeral became a global box - office smash and propelled him to A-list stardom.

Menino's support for making Madison Park a model of urban vocational education follows the release of a report, commissioned by Boston Public Schools through its Office of Career and Technical Education in the spring of 2011, compiled by two dozen national and state experts in career and vocational technical education including Harvard Graduate School of Education's Pathways to Prosperity Project Director William Symonds and Strategic Education Research Partnership Program Director Claire White.

Menino's support for making Madison Park a model of urban vocational education follows the release of a report, commissioned by Boston Public Schools through its Office of Career and Technical Education in the spring of 2011, compiled by two dozen national and state experts in career and vocational technical education including Harvard Graduate School of Education's...

Over her career in public education, Jewell - Sherman worked as a classroom teacher, principal, and central office administrator.

It seems odd to me the way Rhee seemed to imply turing her time in office that the DC public school system was full of lazy, incompetent teachers who fail to educate students and are interested only in protecting their own careers, but then, when she drills down on an evaluation system, doesn't suspect that those terrible teachers will try to cheat the system.

Dr. Robert Watkins spent 23 years as a central office administrator in the Independence Schools including superintendent from 1991 - 99 during his 34 year career in public education.

Throughout her 20 + year career she has produced seminal exhibitions for non-profits and public spaces throughout North America and internationally - be it in collaboration with an entire town (The Marfa Sessions), an intervention into an office or magazine (Exchange with Sol LeWitt, Cabinet), a radio presentation (Tuning Baghdad, WUNP Berlin), a series of discreet projects in private collectors» homes (Nina Katchadourian at Testsite, Austin), or interventions throughout Bloomberg's Financial Headquarters (Speculative Futures).

As this happens, Congress and federal offices are constantly being filled with polluter servants instead of public servants, taking massive campaign donations or cutting career deals in order to further enrich Polluters, Inc..

In every other field of endeavour, from academia to journalism to public office, if you take credit for work produced by someone else, it's called plagiarism — and it has career - ending consequences.

He began his career in indigent defense with the Office of the Public Defender for the 17th Judicial Circuit (Broward County) Florida.

He started his career serving three years in the Office of the Public Defender.

Look no further than the example of Akin Gump partner Michele Roberts, who spent the first eight years of her career at the D.C. Public Defenders» office, where she was counsel in over 40 jury trials.

The mischievous spirit says «Call on another Conservative, like David Emerson, whose political career is going to be short anyway...» but no sane Conservative who wanted public office or public employment in the current century would accept such a call.

After graduation, Joe began his legal career in the Live Oak public defender's office, and shortly thereafter married his law school sweetheart and Live Oak native, Jackie Jo.

A reasonable and informed member of the public, considering Justice Zabel's conduct in the context of his entire career, and in the context of the evidence we have heard, would not think it necessary to remove him from office because of this single transgression in order to restore public confidence in the justice system.

Prior to beginning his judicial career, Judge Riccuiuti practiced in both the private and public sector, including as a Partner at K&L Gates, an Assistant United States Attorney at the United States Attorney's Office in Boston, and as a trial attorney with the Employment Litigation Section of the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice in Washington, DC.

She began her career as a trial attorney with the Office of the Public Defender for the State of Maryland in 1988 and has handled numerous felony trials including several death penalty cases.

Before Starbucks, Paula was an executive in the technology industry (Dell Corporation), a partner in private practice, and dedicated many years of her legal career to public service, including serving as an assistant U.S. attorney in the Western District of Washington (1988 - 1994) and in various capacities as a U.S. Army officer assigned to the Pentagon and White House Office of Legal Counsel.

Singleton shares his experience representing sex offenders while trying to keep the Ohio Justice Policy Center afloat, while career defender Steinberg talks about what led her to create the Bronx Defenders, one of the premier public defender offices in the country.

Vanderbilt offers students seeking public interest careers — whether in government service, indigent defense, legal aid offices, advocacy organizations, or their own brand of social justice entrepreneurship — expert advice.

The National Audit Office apprenticeship scheme is another structured, salaried training scheme open to school leavers interested in a public service career.

The Office of Personnel Management's PMF program is designed to attract to the federal service outstanding men and women from a variety of academic disciplines and career paths who have a clear interest in, and commitment to, excellence in the leadership and management of public policies and programs.