[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 154 (2008), Part 10]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page 14542]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                   HONORING JAMES F. ``JIM'' McNULTY

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                          HON. ADAM B. SCHIFF

                             of california

                    in the house of representatives

                        Wednesday, July 9, 2008

  Mr. SCHIFF. Madam Speaker, I rise today to honor James F. ``Jim'' 
McNulty upon his retirement as chief executive officer of Parsons 
Corporation, headquartered in Pasadena, California.
  Born in Wheeling, West Virginia, Jim attended the United States 
Military Academy at West Point where he graduated with a bachelor of 
science degree in engineering and was commissioned as an Army second 
lieutenant in the field artillery in 1964.
  Jim's 24-year career in the Army included a variety of training, 
research and development, and project management assignments. He was 
trained and qualified as a paratrooper, as a ranger, and as a graduate 
of the Army Command and General Staff College, and he served two tours 
of duty in Vietnam. During his three years of service in Germany, he 
was a unit commander and an operations officer in a nuclear capable 
Pershing missile battalion. While in the Army, he earned masters 
degrees from Ohio State University and Massachusetts Institute of 
Technology, where he was an Alfred P. Sloan Fellow. Additional 
assignments included work as a research associate at Lawrence Livermore 
National Laboratory, Deputy Director of the Office of Military 
Application in the U.S. Department of Energy, Systems Manager for the 
deployment of the Pershing II missile system, and program manager for 
the ground based laser system for the Strategic Defense Initiative.
  In 1988, Mr. McNulty retired from the Army as a colonel and joined 
Parsons as a project manager in the Washington, DC, office. Two years 
later he was appointed vice president and manager of Parsons' 
Washington operations, and in 1992, he was promoted to senior vice 
president and relocated to Pasadena to assume the position of a 
division manager. In January 1996, Jim became a group president and in 
April of that same year, upon the untimely death of the then Parsons 
CEO, he was named as the successor chief executive officer. In 1998, he 
assumed the additional role of chairman of the Parsons Corporation 
board of directors. In May 2008, Jim relinquished his role as chief 
executive officer while retaining his position as the chairman of the 
Parsons board of directors.
  Jim's volunteer participation includes serving as a trustee of the 
Linsly School, in Wheeling, West Virginia, and as a member of the 
boards of directors of the Greater Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, the 
California Science Center and the Los Angeles Sports Council. He is the 
past chairman of Town Hall Los Angeles and a previous member of the 
board of trustees of Pomona College. A long-time supporter of the 
Pasadena POPS Orchestra, Jim is also involved in the American Heart 
Association, the American Cancer Society, United Way, and numerous 
other Pasadena and Los Angeles civic and philanthropic organizations.
  It is my great pleasure to recognize the extraordinary achievements 
of James F. ``Jim'' McNulty and I ask all Members to join me in 
thanking him for his service to our community and to our country.

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