Marvalene Pankey is a third generation Missourian, born 8/2/1948, the daughter of Gilbert and Nada (Lee) Pankey (both parents are deceased). A native of Cedar County she has spent most of her life in the southwest Missouri area, but has also lived in central Missouri and the Kansas City area. Although she has never married she has befriended several youth, including an unofficial foster "daughter and grandson".

FORMAL EDUCATION--Master of Arts, University of Tulsa, Oklahoma; BSEd, Southwest Missouri State University, Springfield, Missouri; Paralegal Certificate with Honors, Southern Career Institute, Boca Raton, Florida; Real Estate Broker Training, Career Education Systems, Kansas City, Missouri; numerous other education; training/experience in management, sales, government, social issues, law, research, public corruption investigations. In March, 2000 in preparation for assuming the duties of Missouri Secretary of State Marvalene Pankey took a continuing education course on securities because she felt that was the area of the office she was not as knowledgable about as she should be.

She is an associate member of the Ohio State Bar Association. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE--Missouri real estate broker, Rainbow Realty, 1984-present; public school teaching experience for a total of over 8 years and 3 plus years supervising other teachers in public school settings or teaching the mentally handicapped in a state facility. Additional teaching experience at the junior college level for two years.She has also taught seminars and conducted workshops on a variety of topics.

In addition, Marvalene Pankey has worked as a manager of a retail store on the busy Branson, Mo. tourist strip. She has also worked a variety of part time jobs ranging from finding computer errors for Sun Oil to stuffing envelopes for the Teamsters to the tax division of the Mo. Department of Revenue to selling advertising.

From 1997 to the present she has worked as an independent contractor, merchandiser and product demonstrator for ProDemCo., Inc. of Springfield, Missouri.

POLITICAL AND GOVERNMENT EXPERIENCE--1964-1966-Marvalene Pankey was selected by El Dorado Springs R-2 Schools, El Dorado Springs, Missouri as a youth advisor to U.S. Congressman, Durward G. Hall. She was told being part of the 7th Congressional District Youth Advisory Council earned her a place in history as it was one of, if not the, first such groups in the nation, and her name was placed on permanent display somewhere in Washington DC.

Mid-1980s-1993--she did considerable research regarding Missouri courts and particularly how youth were treated in the system. She devoted considerable time to exposing miscarriages of justice, including Stacy Simpson, Johnny Lee Wilson, and Jason Ivy. Stacy was sent to adult prison accused of murdering her mother at age 14, case was overturned by a federal judge in 1990 based on a petition prepared by Marvalene Pankey. Stacy was acquitted by jury in February, 1993. She was the only person known to have ever presented the Johnny Lee Wilson case to the federal courts and it was her persistent insistence that finally convinced his supporters to present his case to the late Governor Carnahan. The Governor gave Johnny, who is mentally retarded, and another man had confessed to the murder, a pardon in September, 1995. She helped Jason Ivy obtain court appointed counsel and helped with the selection of his points on appeal. Jason, who was sent to Mo. adult prison at the age of 15, for the murder of his step sister, had his case also overturned by a federal judge, April, 1998. Unfortunately Jason was coerced into another plea bargain in 1999 and remains in prison for what even law enforcement termed an accident.

She takes the credit for having helped remove Johnny and Stacy's circuit judge, L. Thomas Elliston, from the bench. During his sentencing to federal prison, a humbled Bill Webster, who had been attorney general during the imprisonment of Stacy and Johnny apologized to Ms. Pankey for his not listening to her attempts to have him correct their cases. The federal prosecutor on the Webster case 'off the record' thanked her for her assistance with the prosecution and agreed with her analysis that Missouri public corruption was bigger than the Greylord cases. She was also recognized by the Missouri Conmmission on Removal, Retirement and Discipline of Judges for having provided information that helped force the resignation of Greene County Circuit Judge, Thos. McGuire from the bench.

From the fall of 1994-early, 1997 Marvalene Pankey did extensive research on Missouri elections and the potential for and evidence of vote fraud. That research continued through selection 2000.

In 1996 she sought the Democrat Party nomination for Missouri SOS. Although she had never been active in party politics before and spent less than $500, she was granted 7 per cent of the statewide vote.

In 1997 she unofficially helped prevent the State of Oklahoma from placing Joe or Shannon Agofsky on death row. Their bizarre case where current U.S. Attorney, John Ashcroft's friend and associate, Joe Rayl and FBI agents created a scam involving the purported murder of banker, Dan Short, had resulted in them already in federal prison for the same crime and evidence the body alleged to be Short's was actually that of an African American.

In April, 1998 she served as paralegal for the last twelve days of Glenn Sweet's death penalty case. She prepared the packets and gave the presentation to the governor's legal team that resulted in a special investigation of the case the last weekend. Although she and the attorney failed to stop the execution legal manuevering and some of the motions filed are believed to have stopped Missouri executions for quite sometime afterwards due to the lack of jurisdiction of the place of executions. Two weeks after Sweet was executed the missing link was mailed to her that she believes would have resulted in stay of execution. Sweet had allowed himself to take the fall for a drug deal gone sour and the murder from within the Mo. Highway Patrol under the John Ashcroft as Mo. Governor administration. She had given the presentation for the Mo. Governor's office, but did not have the statement that created the element of doubt and could have proven Sweet innocenct of murder.

In October, 1999, she felt honored to be the guest of Missouri Secretary of State, Bekki Cook, at a meeting of secretaries of state from several states, discussing how to increase participation by youth in the electoral process. (Please see NASS SURVEY MILLENNIUM PROJECT http://www.nass.org/nass99/index.html and MPs suggestions, http://www.geocities.com/marvalenpankey/nassrpt1bc699.html.)

January 7, 2000 Marvalene Pankey was asked by Missouri Secretary of State, Bekki Cook, and retired Jackson County, Missouri Circuit Judge, Laurence Smith, to outline and help develop Missouri Citizenship Centers for each public and private library in the state and other community locations. When fully developed these centers would have had a website at the heart along with considerable hard copy information bringing citizens closer to self governance. However, selection 2000 had actually already been decided and Bekki Cook's deputy spiked the project.

Raised in a traditional Republican home, and originally a fan of Eisenhower and Nixon, Marvalene Pankey began to be enlightened and refused to shake President Nixon's hand at the dedication of an Oklahoma waterway, days before his resignation. The President paused and angrily questioned why he was being snubbed. The memory of that incident continues to remind Marvalene Pankey that one rejected greeting, one voice crying in the wilderness, one vote might make a difference in keeping a state sovereign.

Sometimes accused of being a Libertarian and much more qualified to be a part of the Reform Party, Marvalene Pankey is a mixture of the best of all the parties and what they have traditionally stood for.