ATA Elections 2018: Candidates Announced

ATA Elections | 2018 Annual Conference – New Orleans, Louisiana

ATA will hold its regularly scheduled elections at the upcoming 2018 ATA 59th Annual Conference in New Orleans, Louisiana, to elect three directors for a three-year term. In addition, there will be an election for a director for a one-year term. (The vacancy occurred with the election of Director Karen Tkaczyk to secretary.) Further nominations, supported by acceptance statements in writing by each additional nominee and a written petition signed by no fewer than 60 voting members, must be received by the Nominating and Leadership Development Committee by June 1. Acceptance statements and petitions should be submitted to Nominating and Leadership Development Committee Chair David Rumsey (ata-hq@atanet.org). Candidate statements and photos of the candidates will appear in the September/October issue of The ATA Chronicle and on ATA’s website. The candidates proposed by the Nominating and Leadership Development Committee are:

Director (three positions, three-year terms):
Eve Bodeux
Melinda Gonzalez-Hibner
Diego Mansilla
Meghan McCallum
Tianlu Redmon
Kyle Vraa

Director (one position, one-year term):
Tony Guerra

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