Leadership has been defined and described in many different ways over time. There are many different leadership theories, models, and frameworks used to define leadership (Koh, 2009). Although there are differences regarding leadership styles, there are some common characteristics that one can look for to become an effective leader. In this article, Case Study 67: Funding the Frog Study will be used to analyze whether the leader in this case study was able to demonstrate effective leadership. In the case study Funding the Frog Study (Sharp, Aguire, & Kickham, 2011), Herbert Kraft and Liana Munn, colleagues of Senator Tammy Wallis, listen to Senator Wallis on C-Span as she speaks about the bill on university research which had just been adopted earlier in the day by its committee. Senator Wallis is the chairman of the committee and Mr. Kraft and Ms. Munn are both members of this committee. Mr. Kraft and Ms. Munn were stunned when they saw Senator Wallis become very dramatic in her speech and begin attacking a particular element of the bill that she described as unnecessary pork. Senator Wallis accused the opposition party of using the amendment process to stealth fund this high priority funding bill with a $40,000.00 research grant to study frogs in North Carolina, which she further described as an unnecessary and unnecessary expense. Senator Wallis continued in his speech by accusing the opposition party of having misguided priorities and that his fellow Senators Lansing and Weaver of North Carolina should not have tried to divert this funding for their own selfish interests. Herbert was extremely upset after watching this performance by Senator Wallis on C-Span and began discussing the situation with Ms. Munn. M. Herbert...... middle of paper ......e.Works CitedGaiter, DJ (2013). Facets of leadership. Journal Neurodiagnostics, 53(4), 323-327. Koh, H. (2009). Public Health Leadership... Eleventh Biennial Symposium on Minorities, the Medically Underserved, and Cancer in Washington, DC, April 2008. Journal Of CancerEducation, 24S11-8. doi:10.1080/08858190903400385. Peirson, L., Ciliska, D., Dobbins, M., and Mowat, D. (2012). Building capacity for evidence-informed decision-making in public health: a case study of organizational change. BMCPublic Health, 12, 137. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-12-137.Sharp, B., Aguirre, G. and Kickham, K. (Eds.) (2011) . Managing in the public sector: a casebook on ethics and leadership. Boston: Longman. Souba, W. W. (2011). The being of leadership. Philosophy, ethics and human sciences in medicine: PEHM, 6, 5. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1747-5341-6-5.