SJR38 Summary

• Honors Chris Abney Zeigler Dendy, who died July 8, 2023, at age 79, recognizing her as a national and international expert on attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and executive function deficits (EFD).

• Documents her 50-year career as a teacher, school psychologist, counselor, mental health administrator, lobbyist, and CEO of a mental health advocacy organization, along with her authorship of five respected books on ADHD.

• Recognizes her creation of "Camp Dendy," intensive training sessions held for eight years that personally educated more than 80 individuals from the United States and Canada on ADHD and EFD.

• Notes her 30+ years of active membership in Children and Adults with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (CHADD), including her induction into CHADD's Hall of Fame in 2006 and receipt of CHADD's Lifetime Achievement Award in 2014.

• Extends sympathy to her surviving family: two sons (Alex Zeigler and Steven Dendy), daughter (Audrey Dendy Grabowski), five grandchildren, two great-grandchildren, and two sisters.