Representative LISA MEIER has diligently served District 32 in the North Dakota House of Representatives since her election in 2001 and has sponsored 27 bills. She was born in Mandan and now lives in Bismarck with her husband, Dennis, and has one son, three stepsons, and seven grandchildren. By trade, she is an Interior Designer (AS, Bismark State College). She sits on the Board of KNDR Radio, is District Commissioner for the Boy Scouts, a Board Member of Pride Industries, and served as a delegate to the American Council of Young Political Leaders, South Korea, in 2001, and in 2006 as a delegate to the Asian Summit in Tokyo, Japan. In 2007 she was a participant in the Government of Canada’s Rising State Leader Program and continues to serve on the Board of the North Dakota State Commission of National and State Community Service.
Rep. Meier currently is an Interim Member of the North Dakota House of Representatives in the Budget Section, on the Government Finance Committee, the Health Care Committee, and the Interim House Appropriations Committee. She is a standing member of the Appropriations Committee and also in the House Appropriations’ Government Operations Division. She oversees procedural arrangements for the House Committee Rooms. Gayle is a Governor Appointee member of the National and Community Services Commission. She was the 2019 recipient of the AARP Capitol Caregivers Award and the 2019 Greater ND Chamber Champion Award.
She formerly served on the Human Services Committee, the Higher Education Committee, the Justice Reinvestments Committee, and the Transportation Committee, among others.
Rep. Meier notes that her top priority in the North Dakota legislature is always education. It is her opinion that good schools and good teachers enable children to be ready for the next level and to stay in North Dakota.