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 Home Address: Box 54, Valentine, NE 69201
Office Address: Room 1101, State Capitol, Lincoln, NE 68509
Phone: (402) 471-2628
E-mail: dfischer@leg.ne.gov
Elected to Nebraska Legislature: 2004
Committees: Transportation and Telecommunications (chairperson); Natural Resources
Biography: Born Debra Strobel, March 1, 1951, in Lincoln.
Education: Graduate of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (B.S. in education), 1988.
Family: Married Bruce Fischer, Feb. 5, 1972; three children: Adam Carl, Morgan Thomas and Luke Christopher.
Occupation: Rancher, Sunny Slope Ranch.
Member: Executive Committee, National Conference of State Legislatures; Energy Committee, Midwestern Legislative Conference (co-chairperson); Executive Committee, Midwestern Legislative Conference; AgBuilders of Nebraska; Sandhills Cattle Association; Nebraska Cattlemen; Nebraska Cattlewomen; National Cattlemen’s Beef Association; Society for Range Management; Sandhills Area Foundation; Nebraska Farm Bureau; UNL Chancellor’s Club; life member, UNL Alumni Association; Cherry County Hospital Auxiliary; American Legion Auxiliary; PEO; Gamma Phi Beta; life member, Nebraska LEAD Alumni Association; UNL Cather Circle.
Former member: Valentine Rural High School Board of Education; commissioner, Nebraska Coordinating Commission for Postsecondary Education; president, Valentine Rural High School Foundation; University of Nebraska President’s Advisory Council; UNL Chancellor’s Committee of Visitors; past president and board of directors, Nebraska Association of School Boards; Nebraska School Finance Review Committee (two terms); National School Boards Association National Nominating Committee; past president and executive committee, Class VI Regional High School Association; Nebraska Department of Agriculture’s Rural Rehabilitation Review Board; board of directors, Nebraska Agricultural Leadership Council; Governor’s Ag Advisory Council; Regional Board Member Federal Land Bank Association; Governor’s LB 806 Task Force; Nebraska Judicial Nominating Commission; Goals 2000 State Panel; Legislature’s Ad Hoc Committee on Public Schools; Cherry County Visitor Promotion Committee; board of directors, Valentine Area Arts Council; Cherry County School District 5 Board of Education; Cub Scouts and 4-H club leader.
Honors and awards: BILLD Fellow, Midwest Council of State Governments Bowhay Institute for Legislative Leadership, 2005; NRD Farm and Ranch Conservation Award, 1999; Nebraska Association of School Boards Lifetime Achievement Award, 1999; Nebraska Rural Community Schools Association Outstanding Board Member Award, 1998-99; Nebraska Cattlemen Environmental Stewardship Award, 1995; Rangeman’s Award, Nebraska Section Society for Range Management, 1994; NRD State Grasslands Conservation Award, 1993; Holism in Action Award, Nebraska Branch Holistic Resource Management, 1991; Kellogg Fellow, National Center for Food and Policy Research, Resources for the Future, Washington, D.C., 1991; LEAD VIII Fellow, Nebraska Leadership Program, 1988-90.
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