Convention Agenda

NOTE: agenda is subject to change.

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Opening Speaker
Saturday, August 28, 2010
9:30 - 10:00 am

Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz

For more than seventeen years, Debbie Wasserman Schultz has dedicated her public life to working on behalf of the people of South Florida. On January 4, 2005, she was sworn in as a member of the United States House of Representatives. Rep. Wasserman Schultz represents Florida's 20th Congressional district, which encompasses parts of Florida as far north as Fort Lauderdale, and as far south as Miami Beach. Before joining the U.S. Congress, she was first a Representative and later a Senator in the Florida State legislature.

Rep. Wasserman Schultz serves on the House Committee on Appropriations, which, in conjunction with its Senate counterpart, makes funding decisions on every discretionary program in the federal budget. She serves as a “Cardinal,” chairing the Legislative Branch subcommittee. She also serves on the House Judiciary Committee, which handles issue ranging from terrorism to protection of civil liberties.

As a Chief Deputy Whip, Rep. Wasserman Schultz works to help advance important legislation. This role places her on the leadership team of the House of Representatives. In her first term, Rep. Wasserman Schultz served as a Senior Whip, the only freshman chosen to serve on the Whip team.

Rep. Wasserman Schultz is a person respected by her colleagues for her tenacity and her hard work on many issues. Her first term was marked with remarkable success for a freshman member then serving in the minority. She was one of the key leaders in the Terri Schiavo debate, and the Senate Judiciary Committee asked her to testify at the confirmation hearing of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito on the topic.

All of this experience serves to enhance her commitment to lower health care costs, improve the quality of education, protect Social Security and Medicare, and provide a sensible homeland security plan to protect our citizens from the ongoing threat of terror. She continues to fight to ensure that our first responders, our local police and firefighters, have the tools they need to do their jobs. And she continues to take up the fight to give our troops the equipment and compensation they deserve.

Debbie Wasserman Schultz was born in 1966 on Long Island, NY. She attended the University of Florida and graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science in 1988 and with a Master’s Degree in 1990. She has been married to Steve Schultz for 17 years and together they have three children. The Congresswoman is proud to call South Florida home where she resides with her family in Weston.

The Washington Report/The ICBA Perspective
Saturday, August 28, 2010
10:00 - 10:45 am

James D. MacPhee

James D. MacPhee is the 2010 Chairman of the Independent Community Bankers of America (ICBA). He is the Chief Executive Officer of Kalamazoo County State Bank in Schoolcraft, Michigan.

During his long association with ICBA, MacPhee has served as vice-chairman and an at-large member of the ICBA Executive Committee and represented the state of Michigan on the ICBA board of directors as the ICBA Michigan State Director. MacPhee has served on most of the association’s standing committees over the years and was vice chairman of the ICBA Political Action Committee in 2007.

MacPhee has held leadership positions in the Michigan Association of Community Bankers where he served as a director and is past president. He is currently chairman and serves on the board of directors of the Michigan Association of Community Bankers Service Company.

MacPhee has an active career in community banking. He has been with Kalamazoo County State Bank for 35 years serving as CEO for the past 17 years. He is a member of the board of directors of First State Bank, Decatur, Mich. MacPhee was recently elected to the Board of Directors of the Federal Home Loan Bank of Indianapolis. Prior to his association with Kalamazoo County State Bank, MacPhee served the Industrial State Bank in Kalamazoo, Mich.

MacPhee has a long history of community involvement having been a charter member and chairman of the Village of Schoolcraft Downtown Development Authority, a charter member of the Schoolcraft Community Association and the Schoolcraft Businessmen’s Association, and chairman of the Kalamazoo County Fair Renovation Project. He has served on the board of directors of Bronson Health Foundation and as a member of the Bronson Vicksburg Advisory Board.

MacPhee has an associate degree in finance, a general banking degree from the American Institute of Banking and an Executive MBA in Banking from the University of Michigan School of Business. MacPhee served in the U.S. Army during the Viet Nam War.