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Quick Facts
Personal Details

Caucuses/Former Committees

Former Chair, Roads and Transportation Committee, Indiana State House of Representatives

Former Member, Rules and Legislative Procedures Committee, Indiana State House of Representatives

Former Member, Utilities and Energy Committee, Indiana State House of Representatives

Former Member, Veterans Affairs and Public Safety Committee, Indiana State House of Representatives

Education

  • Attended, Indiana University Bloomington

Professional Experience

  • Attended, Indiana University Bloomington
  • Vice President of Safety, Quality Assurance and Security, United Airlines, present
  • Former Aviation Consultant, Boeing Company
  • Former Aviation Consultant, Condon & Forsyth, Limited Liability Partnership
  • Former Aviation Consultant, Greenbriar Equity Limmited Liability Partnership
  • Former Aviation Consultant, Quirk & Bachelor, Limited Liability Partnerhsip
  • Former Aviation Consultant, Rand Corporation
  • Former Aviation Consultant, Skadden & Arp
  • Adjunct Professor, Aviation Safety and Security, George Washington University, 1999-2007
  • Pilot/Flight Instructor/Flight Manager/Human Factors Instructor/Manager/Director/Vice President, United Airlines, 1966-2001
  • President and Chief Executive Officer, Kid's Alive International, 1981-1991
  • Officer, United States Army, 1968-1970

Political Experience

  • Attended, Indiana University Bloomington
  • Vice President of Safety, Quality Assurance and Security, United Airlines, present
  • Former Aviation Consultant, Boeing Company
  • Former Aviation Consultant, Condon & Forsyth, Limited Liability Partnership
  • Former Aviation Consultant, Greenbriar Equity Limmited Liability Partnership
  • Former Aviation Consultant, Quirk & Bachelor, Limited Liability Partnerhsip
  • Former Aviation Consultant, Rand Corporation
  • Former Aviation Consultant, Skadden & Arp
  • Adjunct Professor, Aviation Safety and Security, George Washington University, 1999-2007
  • Pilot/Flight Instructor/Flight Manager/Human Factors Instructor/Manager/Director/Vice President, United Airlines, 1966-2001
  • President and Chief Executive Officer, Kid's Alive International, 1981-1991
  • Officer, United States Army, 1968-1970
  • Assistant Majority Floor Leader, Indiana State House of Representatives, 2015-present
  • Representative, Indiana State House of Representatives, District 4, 2006-present
  • Candidate, Indiana State House of Representatives, District 4, 2018, 2020
  • Assistant Majority Whip, Indiana State House of Representatives, 2012-2015

Former Committees/Caucuses

Former Chair, Roads and Transportation Committee, Indiana State House of Representatives

Former Member, Rules and Legislative Procedures Committee, Indiana State House of Representatives

Former Member, Utilities and Energy Committee, Indiana State House of Representatives

Former Member, Veterans Affairs and Public Safety Committee, Indiana State House of Representatives

Current Legislative Committees

Member, Elections and Apportionment Committee

Member, Roads and Transportation Committee

Chair, Utilities, Energy and Telecommunications Committee

Religious, Civic, and other Memberships

  • Attended, Indiana University Bloomington
  • Vice President of Safety, Quality Assurance and Security, United Airlines, present
  • Former Aviation Consultant, Boeing Company
  • Former Aviation Consultant, Condon & Forsyth, Limited Liability Partnership
  • Former Aviation Consultant, Greenbriar Equity Limmited Liability Partnership
  • Former Aviation Consultant, Quirk & Bachelor, Limited Liability Partnerhsip
  • Former Aviation Consultant, Rand Corporation
  • Former Aviation Consultant, Skadden & Arp
  • Adjunct Professor, Aviation Safety and Security, George Washington University, 1999-2007
  • Pilot/Flight Instructor/Flight Manager/Human Factors Instructor/Manager/Director/Vice President, United Airlines, 1966-2001
  • President and Chief Executive Officer, Kid's Alive International, 1981-1991
  • Officer, United States Army, 1968-1970
  • Assistant Majority Floor Leader, Indiana State House of Representatives, 2015-present
  • Representative, Indiana State House of Representatives, District 4, 2006-present
  • Candidate, Indiana State House of Representatives, District 4, 2018, 2020
  • Assistant Majority Whip, Indiana State House of Representatives, 2012-2015
  • Board Member, Flight Safety Foundation, 1997-present
  • Chair, Emmanuel Hospital Association Board, present
  • Chair, Finance and Operations Committee, Trinity International University, present
  • Board Member, Trinity International University, present
  • Former Board Member, Adler Planetarium
  • Former Member, Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board, National Academies of Sciences
  • Former Chair, Air Transport Association Environmental Committee
  • Former Chair, Air Transport Association Environment Executive Sub-Committee
  • Chair, Air Transport Association Safety Committee
  • Former Chair, Air Transport Association Safety Council
  • Former Chairman, Aviation Rulemaking Committee, Flight Operations Quality Assurance
  • Member, Aviation Safety Program Executive Panel, National Aeronautics and Space Administration
  • Member, Calvary Church
  • Former Reasearch-Chairman, Complex Integrated Systems Panel
  • Member, Decadal Survey of National Aeronautics and Space Administration Research, National Academy of Sciences
  • Former Member, Executive Board, Flight Safety Foundation
  • Former Chair, Flight Operations Quality Assurance Advisory Rulemaking Committee
  • Former Chair, Flight Safety Committee, International Air Transport Association
  • Former Member, Global Airline Industry Program Advisory Group, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Member, Gore Commission's Aviation Security Baseline Working Group
  • Former President/Chief Operating Officer, Kids Alive International
  • Member, National Aeronautics and Space Aadministration Aviation Safety Program Executive Panel
  • Former Member, Northwestern Indiana Regional Planning Commission
  • Member, Northwest Indiana Challenger Learning Center Board
  • Former Member, Rotary Club
  • Former Chair, Star Alliance Safety Committee
  • Former Member, Sub-Committee on Transportation Security Technology, National Academy of Sciences
  • Member, Valparaiso Board of Parks and Recreation
  • Former Member, Valparaiso Lions Club
  • Member, Valparaiso Planning Commission
  • Member, Airline Pilot's Association, 1967-2004
  • Chair, Commercial Aviation Safety Team, 1997-2002

Other Info

— Awards:

  • Bendix Trophy for Aviation Safety
  • Vanguard Trophy
  • Laura Tabor Barbour International Air Safety Award
  • Federal Bureau of Investigation and Federal Aviation Administration Distinguished Service Award
  • Distinguished Flying Cross
  • Bronze Star (2)
  • Purple Heart

Policy Positions

Indiana State Legislative Election 2006 National Political Awareness Test

Abortion

Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding abortion.

1. Abortions should always be illegal.
- No Answer

2. Abortions should always be legal.
- No Answer

3. Abortions should be legal only within the first trimester of pregnancy.
- No Answer

4. Abortions should be legal when the pregnancy resulted from incest or rape.
- No Answer

5. Abortions should be legal when the life of the woman is endangered.
- X

6. Prohibit public funding of abortions and to organizations that advocate or perform abortions.
- No Answer

7. Require clinics to give parental notification before performing abortions on minors.
- No Answer

8. Require women be told that a fetus may feel pain during an abortion and that life begins at conception.
- X

9. Other or expanded principles
- At conception the treating physician has 2 patients, both require medical care.

Budget and Tax

State Budget: Using the key, indicate what funding levels you support for the following general categories. Select one level per category, you can use a number more than once.

1. Education (Higher)
- Slightly Increase

2. Education (K-12)
- Slightly Increase

3. Environment
- Maintain Status

4. Health care
- Slightly Increase

5. Law enforcement
- Slightly Increase

6. Transportation and Highway infrastructure
- Maintain Status

7. Welfare
- Slightly Decrease

8. Emergency preparedness
- Slightly Increase

9. Other or expanded categories
- No Answer

State Taxes: Indicate the tax levels (#1-6) you will support. Select one level per tax.

1. Alcohol taxes
- Slightly Increase

2. Capital gains taxes
- Maintain Status

3. Cigarette taxes
- Greatly Increase

4. Corporate taxes
- Maintain Status

5. Gasoline taxes
- Maintain Status

6. Income taxes (incomes below $75,000)
- Slightly Decrease

7. Income taxes (incomes above $75,000)
- Maintain Status

8. Property taxes
- Greatly Decrease

9. Sales taxes
- Slightly Increase

10. Vehicle taxes
- Slightly Decrease

11. Other or expanded categories
- No Answer

12. Should the state sales taxes be extended to Internet sales?
- No

13. Should accounts such as a "rainy day" fund be used to balance the state budget?
- No

14. Should fee increases be used to balance the state budget?
- Yes

15. Do you support the "Major Moves" Initiative to lease out the Tollway and use the money to fund road projects?
- Yes

16. Other or expanded principles
- Rainy day money should be used for rainy days-- not for new ideas.

Campaign Finance and Governmental Reform

Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding campaign finance and government reform.

1. Do you support the current limit of terms for Indiana governors?
- Yes

2. Do you support limiting the number of terms for Indiana state senators and representatives?
- Undecided

Do you support limiting the following types of contributions to state legislative candidates?

1. Individual
- Yes

2. PAC
- Yes

3. Corporate
- Yes

4. Political Parties
- Yes

5. Do you support requiring full and timely disclosure of campaign finance information?
- Yes

6. Do you support imposing spending limits on state level political campaigns?
- Undecided

7. Do you support adopting statewide standards for counting, verifying and ensuring accuracy of votes?
- Yes

8. Do you support prohibiting media exit polling of voters until all polling locations in Indiana are closed?
- Yes

9. Should Indiana recognize civil unions between same-sex couples?
- No

10. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer

Crime

Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding crime.

1. Increase state funds for construction of state prisons and hiring of additional prison staff.
- No Answer

2. Support the death penalty in Indiana.
- X

3. Support programs to provide prison inmates with vocational and job-related skills and job-placement assistance when released.
- X

4. End parole for repeat violent offenders.
- X

5. Implement other penalties than incarceration for certain non-violent offenders.
- No Answer

6. Decriminalize the possession of small amounts of marijuana.
- No Answer

7. Strengthen penalties and sentences for drug-related crimes.
- No Answer

8. Minors accused of a violent crime should be prosecuted as adults.
- No Answer

9. Require that crimes based on race, ethnic background, religious belief, sex, age, disability, or sexual orientation be prosecuted as hate crimes.
- No Answer

10. Increase state funding for community centers and other social agencies in areas with at-risk youth.
- No Answer

11. Increase state funding for state and local emergency agencies to prevent or respond to terrorism.
- X

12. Strengthen sex-offender laws.
- No Answer

13. Support the restriction of the sale of products used to make Methamphetamine (e.g. tablets containing Pseudophedrine, Ephedrine and Phenylpropanolamine.)
- X

14. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer

Education

Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding education.

1. Support national standards and testing of public school students.
- X

2. Provide parents with state-funded vouchers to send their children to any public school.
- No Answer

3. Provide parents with state-funded vouchers to send their children to any private or religious school.
- No Answer

4. Increase state funds for school capital improvements (e.g. buildings and infrastructure).
- X

5. Increase funds for hiring additional teachers.
- X

6. Support teacher testing and reward with merit pay.
- No Answer

7. Endorse voluntary prayer in public schools.
- X

8. Require public schools to administer high school exit exams.
- X

9. Provide state funding to increase teacher salaries.
- X

10. Increase funding for Head Start programs.
- No Answer

11. Provide state funding for tax incentives and financial aid to help make college more affordable.
- X

12. Support sexual education programs that include information on abstinence, contraceptives, and HIV/STD prevention methods.
- X

13. Support abstinence-only sexual education programs.
- No Answer

14. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer

Employment and Affirmative Action

Employment: Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding employment.

1. Increase funding for state job-training programs that retrain displaced workers and teach skills needed in today's job market.
- X

2. Reduce state government regulations on the private sector in order to encourage investment and economic expansion.
- No Answer

3. Provide low interest loans and tax credits for starting, expanding, or relocating businesses.
- X

4. Provide tax credits for businesses that provide child care for children in low-income working families.
- X

5. Increase state funds to provide child care for children in low-income working families.
- No Answer

6. Include sexual orientation in Indiana's anti-discrimination laws.
- No Answer

7. Increase the state minimum wage.
- No Answer

8. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer

Affirmative Action: Should race, ethnicity or gender be taken into account in state agencies' decisions on:

1. Public employment
- No

2. State college and university admissions
- No

3. State contracting
- No

4. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer

Environment and Energy

Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding the environment and energy.

1. Promote increased use of alternative fuel technology.
- X

2. Support increased production of traditional domestic energy sources (e.g. coal, natural gas, and oil).
- X

3. Use state funds to clean up former industrial and commercial sites that are contaminated, unused, or abandoned.
- X

4. Increase funding for improvements to Indiana's power generating and transmission facilities.
- X

5. Support funding for open space preservation.
- X

6. Enact environmental regulations even if they are stricter than federal law.
- No Answer

7. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer

Gun

Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding guns.

1. Maintain and strengthen the enforcement of existing state restrictions on the purchase and possession of guns.
- No Answer

2. Ease state restrictions on the purchase and possession of guns.
- No Answer

3. Repeal state restrictions on the purchase and possession of guns.
- No Answer

4. Allow citizens to carry concealed guns.
- No Answer

5. Require background checks on gun sales between private citizens at gun shows.
- No Answer

6. Require a license for gun possession.
- No Answer

7. Other or expanded principles
- Enforce laws we have.

Health

Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding health.

1. Ensure that citizens have access to basic health care through managed care, insurance reforms, or state-funded care where necessary.
- X

2. Transfer current Medicaid recipients into managed care programs.
- No Answer

3. Limit the amount of punitive damages that can be awarded in medical malpractice lawsuits.
- X

4. Support patients' right to sue their HMOs.
- No Answer

5. Guaranteed medical care to all citizens is not a responsibility of state government.
- No Answer

6. Legalize physician assisted suicide in Indiana.
- No Answer

7. Allow doctors to prescribe marijuana to their patients for medicinal purposes.
- No Answer

8. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer

Welfare and Poverty

Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding welfare.

1. Support increased work requirements for able-bodied welfare recipients.
- X

2. Increase funding for employment and job training programs for welfare recipients.
- No Answer

3. Increase access to public transportation for welfare recipients who work.
- X

4. Redirect welfare funding to faith-based and community-based private organizations.
- No Answer

5. Use federal TANF (Temporary Assistance to Needy Families) funds to extend health and child care subsidies to the working poor.
- X

6. Support marriage promotion programs for welfare recipients.
- No Answer

7. Eliminate government-funded welfare programs.
- No Answer

8. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer

Legislative Priorities

On an attached page, disk, or via email, please explain in a total of 75 words or less, your top two or three priorities if elected. If they require additional funding for implementation, please explain how you would obtain this funding.
- 1. Quality Jobs2. Fiscal Responsibility3. Education