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Jim Devine ’68

Jim Devine '68 received the 2004 Edward deLuca Lifetime Achievement Award for Professional Excellence from the International Economic Development Council, recognizing his "leadership, innovation, and exemplary service to the economic development profession." Devine, the current president of the Lee's Summit, Mo., economic development council, is the past chairman of the International Economic Development Council, as well as the longest serving, elected board member of the IEDC, beginning in 1986. He holds an M.P.A. from Syracuse University's Maxwell School of Public Administration, and earned the Certified Economic Developer designation in 1979.
Jim Devine ’68 received the 2004 Edward deLuca Lifetime Achievement Award for Professional Excellence from the International Economic Development Council, recognizing his “leadership, innovation, and exemplary service to the economic development profession.” Devine, the current president of the Lee’s Summit, Mo., economic development council, is the past chairman of the International Economic Development Council, as well as the longest serving, elected board member of the IEDC, beginning in 1986. He holds an M.P.A. from Syracuse University’s Maxwell School of Public Administration, and earned the Certified Economic Developer designation in 1979.