Tim Rice, executive director of the Illinois Legislative Information System.

• Position: Retirement - Newsmakers - Brief article

TIM RICE, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE ILLINOIS LEGISLATIVE INFORMATION SYSTEM, retired in December after a career spanning 36 years. Rice started with LIS as a messenger in 1979, working his way up the ladder from computer operator to network manager. In 1998, he was named project manager, the de facto head of the agency, and over five years completely rewrote all of Illinois' legislative information systems. He became executive director in 2004. Rice was head of...