[Congressional Record Volume 158, Number 124 (Friday, September 14, 2012)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1535]
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           IN HONOR OF OHIO STATE REPRESENTATIVE MIKE DOVILLA

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                        HON. DENNIS J. KUCINICH

                                of ohio

                    in the house of representatives

                       Friday, September 14, 2012

  Mr. KUCINICH. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to honor State Representative 
Mike Dovilla of Ohio's 18th House District.
   In addition to being a State Representative, Mr. Dovilla is also a 
U.S. Navy veteran, small business owner, adjunct professor and 
nonprofit leader.
   Representative Dovilla is a Lieutenant in the U.S. Navy Reserves 
with over eight years of commissioned service, including a 12-month 
deployment to Iraq. While in Iraq, he served as Deputy Officer-in-
Charge leading a 25-person Baghdad-based intelligence headquarters 
which acted as a counter-improvised explosive device brigade. His 
reserve assignments have included a position with the Chief Naval 
Operations and the Office of Naval Intelligence. He is currently 
serving with a U.S. Forces, Japan reserve unit in Akron, Ohio. His 
military awards include the Defense Meritorious Service Medal, the Navy 
and Marine Corps Achievement Medal, and the Army Achievement Medal.
   Outside of the military, Representative Dovilla has served as a 
Presidential appointee at the U.S. Office of Personnel Management; a 
senior advisor to former U.S. Senator, George Voinovich; a Presidential 
Management Fellow at the U.S. Department of State; a manager of The 
Dovilla Group--his strategic consulting firm; a German Marshall Fund of 
the United States' American Marshall Memorial Fellow; a volunteer at 
University Hospitals Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital; and a 
member of the Kiwanis Club of Berea, American Legion Post 91 in Berea, 
and Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 3445 of Strongsville. He was elected 
to the Ohio General Assembly in 2010 where he is currently serving his 
first term.
   Mr. Speaker and colleagues, please join me in honoring the 
achievements of State Representative Mike Dovilla.

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