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3	3	- 82nd Session (2023)
4	4	Senate Resolution No. 6–Senators Cannizzaro, Seevers Gansert;
5	5	Buck, Daly, Donate, Dondero Loop, Flores, Goicoechea,
6	6	Hammond, Hansen, D. Harris, Krasner, Lange, Neal,
7	7	Nguyen, Ohrenschall, Pazina, Scheible, Spearman, Stone
8	8	and Titus
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11	11	SENATE RESOLUTION—Inducting Claire Jesse Clift as an
12	12	honorary member into the Senate Hall of Fame.
13	13	WHEREAS, Claire J. Clift was born in Reno and raised in Carson
14	14	City, where she graduated from Carson High School and Western
15	15	Nevada College and afterward worked for 11 seasons for the United
16	16	States Forest Service in North Fork, Idaho, where she met her
17	17	husband Jim, a whitewater rafting guide, and learned that one’s
18	18	survival depends on self-reliance and the ability to make tough
19	19	decisions; and
20	20	WHEREAS, As a fifth-generation Nevadan, her ancestry includes
21	21	great-great-grandfathers who were pioneer settlers, one of whom,
22	22	Daniel Clark Simpson, established a trading post and served as an
23	23	Assemblyman in 1871, another, William George Harris, who was a
24	24	miner who helped build the Sutro Tunnel, and her great uncle,
25	25	Forest Lovelock, and uncle, Coe Swobe, who both served in the
26	26	Senate and her grandfather, Hugo Quilici, who was mayor of Reno;
27	27	and
28	28	WHEREAS, Claire’s state service began in the Nevada Senate as
29	29	a Committee Secretary for the Senate Committee on Natural
30	30	Resources in 1987 and 1989, where she learned the legislative
31	31	process and experienced the in-depth vetting of bills through
32	32	testimony, discussion and amendments, and after a brief time away,
33	33	she returned to the Senate as the Media Clerk under the tutelage of
34	34	then-Secretary of the Senate, Jan Thomas, and in this position
35	35	helped develop and improve computer programs as the liaison for
36	36	information systems to assist the Legislature as it entered the 21st
37	37	century; and
38	38	WHEREAS, Upon the retirement of her predecessor, Claire Clift
39	39	was appointed as the Secretary of the Senate, continuing a long-
40	40	standing tradition of holding an elected position of public service in
41	41	her family, served as Secretary of the Senate during 9 regular
42	42	sessions and 15 special sessions, which included the Senate’s first
43	43	impeachment proceeding against a state constitutional officer, and
44	44	with the support of legislative leadership, helped effect statutory
45	45	changes to employment practices of session staff that affected
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49	49	- 82nd Session (2023)
50	50	salaries, retirement vestment and opportunities for legislative staff to
51	51	transfer employment to the state’s classified service; and
52	52	WHEREAS, Claire’s public service extended beyond Nevada,
53	53	serving on two Mason’s Manual Commissions with the National
54	54	Conference of State Legislatures, as co-chair and chair, shepherding
55	55	the manual to its decennial revision with the 2020 edition of
56	56	Mason’s Manual of Legislative Procedure, as well as being active in
57	57	the American Society of Legislative Clerks and Secretaries where
58	58	she chaired multiple committees and served two terms on the
59	59	ASLCS Executive Committee; and
60	60	WHEREAS, Claire Clift is remembered for her poise,
61	61	professionalism and confidence, was well-respected by all who
62	62	worked with her, and always kept the interests of the Senate and
63	63	Legislature at heart; and
64	64	WHEREAS, The Senate of the Legislature of the State of Nevada
65	65	wishes to recognize Claire J. Clift for her dedicated service and vast
66	66	knowledge of parliamentary procedure; now, therefore, be it
67	67	RESOLVED BY THE SENATE OF THE STATE OF NEVADA, That,
68	68	Claire Jesse Clift, for her decades of devoted service to the State of
69	69	Nevada as Secretary of the Senate, is hereby inducted as an
70	70	honorary member into the Senate Hall of Fame of the Legislature of
71	71	the State of Nevada; and be it further
72	72	RESOLVED, That this resolution becomes effective upon
73	73	adoption.
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