[Congressional Record Volume 157, Number 106 (Friday, July 15, 2011)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1335]
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                        HONORING VERONICA LEWIS

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                       HON. ELEANOR HOLMES NORTON

                      of the district of columbia

                    in the house of representatives

                         Friday, July 15, 2011

  Ms. NORTON. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to salute an outstanding 
Federal employee and citizen of the District of Columbia, Veronica 
Lewis, who is retiring this month after forty-one years of service with 
the Federal Government. Ms. Lewis, a dedicated public servant, is known 
for her contributions to both the government and to her fellow 
employees.
  Ms. Lewis has lived and worked in Washington, DC all of her life. She 
began her career as a public employee in 1970 as a personnel 
information assistant with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban 
Development. In 1986, she became a secretary with the U.S. Securities 
and Exchange Commission (SEC), where she is still employed today, in 
the agency's Division of Corporation Finance. She has been a loyal and 
dedicated Federal employee for the past 4 decades.
  Ms. Lewis attended public schools in the District of Columbia. Prior 
to her career with the Federal Government, she worked for the 
Metropolitan Police Department and also as a teacher's aide at Taft 
Junior High School.
  In 2000, Ms. Lewis was one of the original founders of the Federal 
employee union that now represents all of the non-management employees 
at the SEC National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU), Chapter 293. She 
served as the union's chief steward for several years and, since 2006, 
has served as the vice president of Chapter 293.
  Ms. Lewis has two children, Cecilia Vernette Camp and Edward Walker, 
and three grandchildren, Angela Lewis-Camp, Veronica Lewis-Camp, and 
Edward Walker, Jr. In retirement, Ms. Lewis plans to travel as well as 
to volunteer at St. Jude Children's Hospital. Her hobbies are dancing, 
traveling and bicycling.
  Mr. Speaker, Veronica Lewis has been a dedicated civil servant all of 
her adult life, both as an SEC employee and as a leader of NTEU Chapter 
293. It is appropriate that we honor her today for her many 
contributions and congratulate her on her retirement from the Federal 
Government.

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