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September / October 2009
Volume 21, Number 5

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Harris CIO, CIRA Board Member Wins Lifetime Achievement Award

Steve Jennings, a member of the TAC County Information Resources Agency’s (CIRA) Board of Directors and the Chief Information Officer of Harris County, was chosen to receive the first ever Technologist Lifetime Achievement Award at the National Association of Counties Annual Conference in Nashville, Tennessee.

During a presentation made by NACo’s Information Technology Committee chair Webster J. Guillory, Jennings was honored for his 40-year career in information technology and for representing “NACo and county governments nationally in the intergovernmental arena at the city, county, state and federal levels.”

“Steve personified an unending obligation to help county officials throughout the United States effectively use technology to help solve business problems and enhance service delivery,” Guillory said. “Steve sustained the desire to help others without selfish motives. I’ve never known Steve to seek the limelight.”

Guillory said the Technologist Lifetime Achievement Award was inspired by Fulton County, Georgia Director of Data Processing J.W. Stephens, who worked with the National Association of County Information Technology Administrators (NACITA) and the NACo Board of Directors for many years, until 2000. He had started his career in Fulton County in the early 1960s.