[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 3]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page 3564]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]


                       TRIBUTE TO DUSTIN PETERSEN

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                            HON. TOM LATHAM

                                of iowa

                    in the house of representatives

                       Wednesday, March 13, 2013

  Mr. LATHAM. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to congratulate and recognize 
Dustin Petersen for being named a 2013 Forty Under 40 honoree by the 
award-winning central Iowa publication, Business Record.
   Since 2000, Business Record has undertaken an exhaustive annual 
review to identify a standout group of young leaders in the Greater Des 
Moines area who are making an impact in their communities and their 
careers. Each year, forty up-and-coming community and business leaders 
under 40 years of age are selected for this prestigious distinction, 
which is based on a combined criteria of community involvement and 
success in their chosen career field. The 2013 class of Forty Under 40 
honorees join an impressive roster of 560 business leaders and growing.
   Dustin Petersen has been a partner with McGladrey LLP since 2007. 
His roles at McGladrey certainly keep him busy as a national tax leader 
for the firm's consumer products group as well as a national practice 
leader for the alternative energy sector. In 2002, Mr. Petersen started 
a national renewable practice with McGladrey that today has clients 
across the country and the world. Outside of work, Dustin serves his 
community as the chair of Ankeny Economic Development Collaboration 
Start-up and Entrepreneurial Growth Group, as well as a board member 
for the Blank Park Zoo Foundation and the Blank Park Endowment 
Corporation. Raised on a second generation farm in northern Iowa, 
Dustin now resides in Ankeny with his wife Nicole and their three 
children, Alex, Megan and Zach. In all facets of his life, Dustin is an 
example of hard work and service that our state can be proud of.
   Mr. Speaker, it is a profound honor to represent leaders like Dustin 
in the United States Congress and it is with great pride that I 
recognize and applaud Mr. Petersen for utilizing his talents to better 
both his community and the great state of Iowa. I invite my colleagues 
in the House to join me in congratulating Dustin on receiving this 
esteemed designation, thanking those at Business Record for their great 
work, and wishing each member of the 2013 Forty Under 40 class 
continued success.

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