Leon G. Billings (1937-2016)
MSA SC 3520-12186
Biography:
Born in Helena, Montana, November 19, 1937. Attended Reed College; University of Montana, B.A., history and political science, 1959. Married; three children. Died November 15, 2016, in Nashville, Tennessee.
General Assembly:
House of Delegates, Legislative District 24 (D), Montgomery County,
1991-2003. Member, Environmental Matters Committee, 1995-99, 2001-2003
(agriculture, environment & natural resources subcommittee, 2001-2003;
public utilities subcommittee, 2001-2003; environmental & natural resources
subcommittee, 1995-99); Special Joint Committee on Vehicle Emissions Inspection
Program, 1995-2003. Member, Constitutional and Administrative Law Committee,
1991-93; Judiciary Committee, 1993; Commerce and Government Matters Committee,
1994; Appropriations Committee, 1999-2000 (health & human resources
subcommittee, 1999-2000; oversight committee on pensions, 1999-2000; oversight
committee on program open space & agricultural land preservation, 1999-2000);
Special Joint Committee on Pensions, 2000. Chair, Transportation Committee,
Montgomery County Delegation, 1996-2003.
Private Career and Other Public Service:
Served in U.S. Naval Reserve, 1955-63. Staff director, U.S. Senate
Environment Subcommittee, 1966-78. Lecturer and writer on politics
and environment; principal staff on federal environmental laws, 1966-78.
Administrative assistant to U.S. Senator Edmund Muskie, 1978-80.
Executive assistant to U.S. secretary of state, 1980-81. Political
consultant. Director, Washington Politics Program, University of
Southern California, 1981-94. Executive director, U.S. Senate Democratic
Campaign Committee, 1982-83. Member, Task Force to Study Retail Electric
Competition and the Restructuring of the Electric Utility Industry, 1997-98.
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