David I. Maurstad

David I. Maurstad was the 36th Lieutenant Governor of Nebraska from 1998 to 2001. He was appointed Mitigation Division director at Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) in 2006.

Maurstad received his Bachelor of Science in Business Administration and Master of Business Administration from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln.

Maurstad was an insurance agent for nearly 25 years in Nebraska and was the major of Beatrice, Nebraska and later a member of the Nebraska Legislature. He was lieutenant governor from 1998 to 2001. In 2001, he became director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency Region VIII (Colorado, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah. Wyoming). He was appointed Mitigation Division director at FEMA in 2006.

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• FEMA promotion
• Photograph of Maurstad and his wife
• Biography

David I. Maurstad (1953- ) businessman, politician, government official, known for 20 years of public service beginning with election to Board of Education, District 15 (1989-1990), Mayor of Beatrice (1991-1994), Nebraska Sate Senator (1995-1998) and Nebraska Lieutenant Governor (1999-2001), he was appointed by U.S. President George W. Bush to be regional director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) for Region 8 based at Denver in October 2001, serving as senior FEMA official at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City and for the Colorado wildfire season the same year with 22 presidentially declared fire emergencies, then from 2004 to 2008 he was FEMA Assistant Administrator for Mitigation and Administrator of the National Flood Insurance Program, supervising a record number of flood insurance claims and payments exceeding $15 billion for the 2004 Florida hurricane season and three hurricanes, including the disastrous Katrina, in 2005, implemented the modernization of the nation's 92,000 flood maps, oversaw the program that resulted in all 50 states and U.S. territories and 16,000 local communities adopting approved mitigation plans, and administrated $5 billion in mitigation grants to help make the nation more disaster resilient; he then became vice president and national business manager for risk and emergency management with Post, Buckley, Schuh, and Jernigan, Inc. (PBS&J) based at Chantilly, Virginia. Born at North Platte, he resided in Beatrice, graduated from Beatrice High School in 1971, earned degrees from Platte Community College and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and was partner in a family insurance business in Beatrice. Consult Lincoln Journal Star, April 6, 1997, pp. D-1, D-7 and September 25, 2000, pp. B-1, B-5 and January 28, 2001, pp. C-1, C-4 and Beatrice Daily Sun, December 29, 2001, pp. A-1, A-3 and August 28, 2008, pp. A-1, A-2 and October 16, 2008, p. A-3. See also Nebraska Blue Book 1998-99 (Clerk of the Legislature) 426 and Omaha World Herald, June 6, 2005, pp. B-1, B-2. Gage County Historical Society

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