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| Affiliation | Democratic |
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| Name | Maxine Moul |
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Lincoln, Nebraska , United States |
| Email | None |
| Website | [Link] |
| Born |
Unknown
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| Contributor | COSDem |
| Last Modifed | COSDem
Mar 02, 2006 05:29pm |
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Swedish - Married -
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| Info | Maxine grew up on a 160-acre farm in Burt County, near Oakland. All of her grandparents emigrated from Sweden in the early 1900s. She attended a one-room country school during her elementary years, graduated from Oakland High School in 1965 and received her Bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 1969. Her first job was at the Sioux City, Iowa Journal, as a Sunday feature writer and photographer. Much of her news beat was in Northeast Nebraska and the First District.
In 1971, she and Dr. Francis Moul, a former instructor of political science at Wayne State College in Wayne, NE, purchased the Syracuse Journal-Democrat in Francis' hometown. Maxine and Francis were married in 1972. While raising their family, the Mouls built the company from one newspaper and three employees to a printing and publishing firm with five newspapers, a weekly magazine, monthly farm magazine, eight free-distribution shoppers circulating in Nebraska, Iowa, Missouri and Kansas, and a printing division with customers throughout the United States. When they sold Maverick Media, Inc. in 1988, there were 120 employees in four states, with 85 of them located in Syracuse.
Maxine ran for Lt. Governor against four other candidates in the Democratic primary in 1990. After her victory, she and gubernatorial candidate Ben Nelson defeated incumbent Republican Governor Kay Orr in the general election.
Nelson asked Maxine to head the new administration's rural development efforts and named her chair of the Nebraska Rural Development Commission, which he established with his first executive order in January 1991. The Commission recommended an aggressive economic development initiative for the rural communities of the state, including the establishment of the Nebraska Community Foundation. Maxine served as the first chair of the Foundation board of directors, and then as its first President, as a volunteer.
In 1993, Maxine resigned her position as Lt. Governor, to accept Governor Nelson's appointment as Nebraska's Director of Economic Development. She directed a staff of 75 people and worked to dramatically increase the federal government's funding of economic development efforts in Nebraska.
Many new affordable housing initiatives began during Maxine's tenure at DED, and numerous new businesses and expansions were secured in the state and the First Congressional District from 1993 to 1999. Among them were expansions at Novartis, Pfizer and Kawasaki in Lincoln, Smart Chicken in Tecumseh, Pharma-Chemi in Syracuse, Excel in Nebraska City, Cargill in Blair, Nucor Steel in Norfolk and Valmont in West Point. She promoted Nebraska businesses and agricultural products on several international trade missions with Governor Nelson to Asia and South America.
Her DED work also included a focus on helping entrepreneurs start and expand their businesses in rural Nebraska. The state's first funding for Microenterprise development, aimed at companies of five employees or less, was secured from the Legislature, with Maxine's strong support and advocacy.
Maxine left the Department of Economic Development at the end of the Nelson administration in January 1999. She continued to volunteer as President of the Nebraska Community Foundation. She and her husband, Dr. Francis Moul, lived in Chadron, NE for a year, during his one-year appointment as a Vice-President of Chadron State College and President of the Chadron State Foundation.
When they returned to Lincoln in 2001, Maxine worked full-time as paid president of the Foundation and accepted the position of President Emeritus in August 2003. She retired from the Foundation in January 2006.
The Nebraska Community Foundation was founded to help rural Nebraskans put charitable giving to work for community and economic development in their hometowns. The Foundation provides IRS 501(C)(3) tax-exempt status to 183 affiliated funds in the state. Those funds operate in 162 communities in 66 of Nebraska's 93 counties. All but four counties in the First Congressional District have funds with the Nebraska Community Foundation.
The Foundation has distributed more than $50 million through its affiliated funds for Nebraska community and economic development efforts since 1993.
Maxine's lifetime of volunteer work illustrate her commitment to economic and rural development, health care, education and social issues: Northern Great Plains, Inc., a rural development non-profit for Nebraska, South Dakota, North Dakota, Minnesota and Iowa; Nebraska advisor to the National Trust for Historic Preservation; Nebraska Lied Main Street Program; the advisory committee on rural policy for the Kellogg Foundation; Lincoln Downtown Rotary # 14; co-chair of EndowNebraska, supporting building permanent endowments for Nebraska non-profits; Nebraska Diplomats; Technology Council of the Lincoln Chamber of Commerce, InvestNebraska, supporting venture capital investment in the state; John G. Neihardt Foundation; TeamMates of Nebraska, a mentoring program for at-risk students; Nebraska Dollars for Scholars; GROW Nebraska, a non-profit providing marketing and technical assistance to Nebraska artisans; Nebraska Development Network; and the Every Woman Matters advisory committee for breast and cervical cancer, representing survivors.
She was appointed by Gov. Bob Kerrey to the advisory committee for the Nebraska Department of Economic Development; as his representative to the White House Conference on Small Business in 1986, serving as vice-chair of the Nebraska delegation; to his Small Business Equity Task Force and to the Nebraska Energy Bank; and as co-chair of the first Governor's Conference on Women's Business Ownership in 1985.
Maxine served on the President's Advisory Committee for University of Nebraska Presidents Ronald Roskins and Martin Massengale; President Dennis Smith's advisory committee on economic development; Publications Board for the Daily Nebraskan at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln; the advisory committee for the College of Public Affairs and Community Service at the University of Nebraska Omaha; the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Cather Circle, matching distinguished alumna as mentors for women honor students; and the 2004 search committee for a new President of the University of Nebraska System.
She was a founding board member of the Nebraska Women's Foundation and held numerous positions at the local level in Syracuse, Nebraska, including chairman of the city Parks and Recreation board and first woman President of the Syracuse Rescue Squad; state executive committee member of the Nebraska Mrs. Jaycees; and the advisory board for the Oak Arbor Recovery Center at Nebraska City.
Honors received by Maxine include Nebraska Member of the National Advisory Council, U.S. Small Business Administration; Nebraska Legacy Award, Nebraska Community Improvement Program; Public Service Award, Nebraska Development Network; Champion and Friend of Rural Development award, Nebraska Rural Development Commission; Honorary Member of the Community Development Society, Nebraska Chapter; Champion of Small Business Award, Nebraska Business Development Center; Ambassador Plenipotentiary, the Nebraska Diplomats' highest honor, for economic development efforts; the Margaret Sanger Award from Planned Parenthood of Lincoln; the National Management Association's Silver Knight of Management Award; a Toll Fellowship from the Council of State Governments; an honorary doctorate of humane letters from Peru (Nebraska) State College; the Lincoln YWCA Woman of Distinction award for government service in 1998; Entrepreneur of the Month for May 2005, from the Center for Rural Entrepreneurship; and the first Rural Health Consumer Advocate award from the Nebraska Rural Health Education Network.
Maxine attended the Harvard University John F. Kennedy School of Government, Program for Senior Executives in State and Local Government; the Humphrey Institute for the Center for the New West in Minneapolis; was a member of the science and technology work group for the National Governor's Association; a member of the economic development working group for the Midwest Governor's Association; and served on the U.S. Economic Development Administration's panel on national economic development policy, through the National Academy on Public Administration. She was a Civilian Instructor, U.S. Army War College, Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania
Maxine and her husband are the parents of two children, Jennifer Ann (deceased) and Jeff, 32, of Rapid City, SD. Jeff and his wife, Diane, have one child, Adia Jennifer Moul, 18 months old. Francis and his first wife, Mary McVay (deceased) have a son, Bogart Nomad, who is a youth minister at First Lutheran Church in Blair, NE. Bogart and his wife, Donna, have two children, Nikolas, seven, and Zakariah, four. Maxine's sister, Kris Johnson, lives on the family farm near Oakland and she and her husband, Rick, have three children and four grandchildren, all residing in the Oakland area. Another sister, Karlene, lives in Elwell, MI with her husband, Tom Moomey. They have six children and one grandson.
Francis was born in York, Nebraska and lived in Fairmont, Syracuse and Grand Island. He is a 1958 graduate of Vermillion High School and holds bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of South Dakota at Vermillion. His doctorate from the University of Nebraska is in environmental history. The University of Nebraska Press will release his book on the National Grasslands in the fall of 2006.
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