Terry
Neese
National Business Association
Public Policy Advisor
About
Mrs. Terry Neese
BIOGRAPHICAL
INFORMATION
Terry Neese is a fellow small business owner and entrepreneur. She is the CEO
& Founder of Terry Neese Personnel Services and Terry Neese Temporaries, companies
based in Oklahoma City that she started in 1975. Terry is also a co-founder of
GrassRoots Impact, Inc. and Women Impacting Public Policy (WIPP). She also owns
a farm and ranch in southern Oklahoman and beach rentals on the Gulf Coast of
Alabama.
Terry
Neese was recognized in the September 2000 issue of Fortune Magazine as one of
the Power 30--the most influential small businesspersons in Washington, D.C. Terry
was rated number 6 in the Power 30! In recognition of Terry's unwavering small
business advocacy and her successful efforts to create the Terry Neese Center
for Entrepreneurial Excellence, Congressman J.C. Watts nominated Terry for the
prestigious "Unsung Heroines Award". The award, presented each year
by the Mitsubishi Motors USA Foundation and PBS's public policy program "To
The Contrary With Bonnie Erbe," recognizes women who give tirelessly of themselves
to make life better for others. Terry accepted her award in March 2002 in Washington,
D.C.
She
has been honored with the Women In Communications By Liner Award; NAWBO's National
Public Policy Award, and the Oklahoma City NAWBO Chapter's Lifetime Achievement
Award. The Business Women's Network and the National Foundation For Women Legislators
recently recognized Terry as "Entrepreneur of the Year" and, in 2000,
she was named the Oklahoma City Journal Record's Hall of Fame Woman of the Year.
Known
by the movers and shakers in Congress, Terry testifies on a regular basis before
the U.S. House and Senate, and is part of a "Brain Trust" that provides
important input to the U.S. Small Business Administration, and various coalitions.
She has built coalitions in both the Democratic and Republican Parties to get
key legislation passed.
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