After being elected Insurance Commissioner, I began putting together a team of people I knew could assist in the work at the Kansas Insurance Department. Lee Modesitt was one of the first people I hired. Since then, he has served as the Director of Government Affairs and Communication. Lee has been an instrumental part of the Department's legislative success the past four legislative sessions. Without him, the Department would not have passed some pretty monumental legislation to improve insurance licensing, reform rebating and pass accreditation.
Fortunately for Lee and unfortunately for me, Lee has a new opportunity that he cannot pass up. The opportunity takes him home to Manhattan and will allow him to spend more time with his family, less time on the road and maybe even a few more hours on the golf course.
I am grateful for his service to the people of Kansas and I am honored to have had him as a part of my team. I wish him well in this new chapter of his career and am forever grateful for his friendship, guidance and sense of humor. (Although he never could write me a good insurance joke!)