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Jeanne H. Schmedlen 2005

She is the first Chief of Protocol in the history of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives and the first Pennsylvanian appointed by two successive governors of opposite parties to the Board of Directors of the Pennsylvania Humanities Council. She is a member of the Citizens Advisory Panel of the Association of Independent Colleges and Universities of Pennsylvania and was appointed co-director of the Capitol Centennial Commission.

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