Dina Butcher Bio
Dina Butcher has extensive people, issue management and public policy skills honed over many years in appointive government, association management and grass roots mobilization positions. Dina’s three major strengths are contacts, contacts and contacts. She joined Butcher & Associates in 2003 and specializes in coordinating pre-employment background checks and property searches, and engaging in investigative research, including locating missing persons.
Career highlights include:
- Served seven years as the North Dakota Deputy Agriculture Commissioner.
- Owned and operated Association Management Services, Inc. (AMS) from 1987 to 1996, working as a lobbyist for various agricultural interests and managing agricultural associations including the North Dakota Grain Growers, U.S. Durum Growers and American Coalition for Ethanol. Launched numerous business and agriculture-friendly grass roots efforts through AMS.
- John Lee Coulter Achievement Award Recipient for 1995, among many other honors.
- Served as interim director for the National Association of Wheat Growers Foundation.
- Ran for North Dakota Agriculture Commissioner in 1996 in one of the closest statewide race in
- Served on Governor Ed Schafer’s senior staff and as director of his statewide Leadership Initiative.
- Served for six years as Director of Division of Community Services.
- Appointed by Governor John Hoeven to serve as Human Rights Division Director.
- Worked for Prairie Public Broadcasting managing major gifts and planned giving.
Dina received a Bachelor of Arts in German from
