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Last Updated on Friday, 16 January 2009 10:38 Written by rslcpol Friday, 16 January 2009 10:38
From Radio Iowa:
The Iowa Senate today passed a resolution honoring a former colleague who is battling cancer and is not expected to live much longer. Republican Mary Lundby of Marion was the first woman to serve as Speaker Pro Tem in the Iowa House and more recently was the first woman to serve as Co-Majority Leader in the Senate.
Lundby did not seek reelection to the senate in 2008. She had planned to run for the Linn County Board of Supervisors last November. “I wanted to blaze a trail for women so that they would run for the legislature and be elected to the legislature and seek the leadership and try to set policy,” Lundby said last year, in July. “That’s a hard thing to leave behind.”