[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 160 (2014), Part 3]
[Senate]
[Pages 3669-3670]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                    TRIBUTE TO SISTER LILLIAN MURPHY

 Mr. BENNET. Mr. President, today I wish to honor Sister 
Lillian Murphy,

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who is retiring this June after an astounding 27 years as the CEO of 
Denver-based Mercy Housing, one of the largest and most effective 
affordable housing organizations in the country.
  Since 1982, Mercy Housing has worked tirelessly to develop affordable 
housing options in more than 40 States. Sister Lillian took over as CEO 
in 1987 and has overseen enormous growth in Mercy's operations, which 
now houses more than 135,000 residents in nearly 40,000 homes.
  Sister Lillian has won a number of awards for her work, including the 
prestigious Non-Profit Housing Association of Northern California's 
Affordable Housing Leadership Award for Lifetime Achievement, and the 
Annual Housing Leadership Award from the National Low Income Housing 
Coalition. In 2009, she was inducted into the Affordable Housing Hall 
of Fame by Affordable Housing Finance Magazine. Sister Lillian has been 
a remarkable leader at Mercy Housing and she will be sorely missed.
  Sister Lillian is leaving the important work of Mercy Housing in very 
capable hands with the incoming CEO Jane Graf. We all look forward to 
working with Ms. Graf to ensure that middle- and low-income families 
continue to have access to quality, affordable housing.

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