Jim Pillen's Birth Card: The Joker

In the record

James Douglas Pillen (born December 31, 1955) is an American politician, veterinarian, and livestock producer serving as the 41st and current governor of Nebraska since 2023. The birth-card coordinate for December 31 is the Joker — a calendar position, not a forecast of the governorship.

The Joker coordinate

Jim Pillen's birthday maps to the Joker (The Joker: The December 31 Birth Card). Card Blueprints treats that as a 365-day coordinate: solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day), and the year is unused. It is not a prediction about a statehouse and not a verdict on Jim Pillen. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: In a common year, 364 dates map to one of the 52 cards and December 31 resolves to the Joker. A leap year adds February 29, which maps normally to the 9 of Clubs. We state both edge cases plainly — the system is more useful when the public explanation matches the calculator.

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Jim Pillen in the public record

A member of the Republican Party, Pillen served on the University of Nebraska Board of Regents from 2013 to 2023. Pillen was born in Columbus, Nebraska, to Dale and Dorothy Pillen. His parents were farmers. Dale Pillen served in the United States Army during the Korean War. He died at a Columbus hospital in 1999 at age 72. His grandfather immigrated to the United States from Germany and later served in the U.S. military during World War I. After graduating from Lakeview Junior-Senior High School in 1974, Pillen earned a Bachelor of Science degree in animal science from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln and a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine from the Kansas State University College of Veterinary Medicine. From 1975 to 1978, Pillen was a defensive back for the Nebraska Cornhuskers football team under Tom Osborne.

Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Jim Pillen (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.

Also on the record

1. He was inducted into the Nebraska Football Hall of Fame in 2004.
2. Pillen is a practicing veterinarian and also works as chair of Pillen Family Farms.
3. The business, which employs members of Pillen's family, acquired DNA Genetics in 2003.
4. Pillen has also worked as president of the Columbus Area Chamber of Commerce and chaired the Columbus Community Hospital Board of Directors.

Other sitting governors with this card

• No other sitting governor in this set shares the Joker.

FAQ

What is Jim Pillen's birth card?

The Joker. December 31 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. The year of birth is not used.

Does a birth card predict a governorship?

No. These pages are coordinates, not fortune-telling. A birth card names a calendar day in a 52-card year. It does not forecast elections, character, or fate.

Where do Jim Pillen's dates come from?

Birth date 1955-12-31 is the day-precision date on Wikipedia's list of current United States governors for the Governor of Nebraska, verified against Wikidata P569 (CC0, day precision, Gregorian preferred). The two sources match. Year-only dates and Wikipedia↔Wikidata conflicts are dropped, not guessed. Page hooks and evidence come from the Wikipedia REST summary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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