2025 Nominating Committee Report

TO: GSAE Membership
FROM: Val Smith, CAE
DATE: November 8, 2024

RE: 2025 Nominating Committee Report

As Chair of the Nominating Committee, I am pleased to announce the following slate of officers and GSAE Board of Directors members for 2025.  Please note that this term of office, unless otherwise noted, will run for 2 years from January 1, 2025 – December 31, 2026.

CHAIR (automatic) - Jason Cline, CAE
CHAIR-ELECT (automatic) - Jacob Wilder, CAE
TREASURER - Julia Boyd, CAE                
PAST Chair (automatic) - Amy Kane, CAE, MBA
 
BEGINNING two-year terms on the Board in January 2025                      
Heather Blanchard, CAE                                  
Shan Haugabrook, CNP
Jon Krueger
Katie Oxford, CAE                                               
CORPORATE MEMBER - Roumain Brown                                        
 
COMPLETING two-year terms on the Board in December 2025                           
Lacey Facer
Kelly Moselle, MA, MS, CAC II, CMAC, CCS, CMATS, CAMS II
Catie Ramp, MBA, MPA, AE-MBA
Rick Walker, Esq.          
CORPORATE MEMBER - Anne Chen, TMP
                                                                                     

The Nominating Committee endorses the slate for the 2025 GSAE Foundation Board of Trustees.
PAST Chair (automatic) – Julie Anderson, CAE, MBA
CHAIR (automatic) - Kelly McLendon, CAE
CHAIR-ELECT (automatic) – Damian Kavanagh, Ed.D., CAE
TREASURER – Kara Bastarache, CAE
BOARD Representative – Jacob Wilder, CAE

Our thanks to our board members who will complete their terms this year. They will be recognized during the December 11th GSAE Business Meeting: Past Chair, Val Smith, CAE, Kara Bastarache, CAE, Betsy Eddy, CAE, Jeremy Minnick, and Steven Schumacher.

Our thanks also to Past Chair of the GSAE Foundation Board of Trustees, Julia Boyd, CAE                                             

Respectfully submitted, the 2025 GSAE Nominating Committee
Val Smith, CAE, Amy Kane, CAE, MBA, Jason Cline, CAE, SeKoixa Gonzalez, Lisa-Marie Haygood, MBA, CAE, Cece Corbin, CMP, Nancy Pass, and Michelle Shea. 

From the GSAE Bylaws

ARTICLE VI - NOMINATIONS AND ELECTION

Section 1:  Nominations. 

  1. A.   Nominating Committee. At least ninety (90) days prior to the annual business meeting, the Board of Directors shall appoint a Nominating Committee of at least five (5) persons, each of whom shall have been an Individual member of the Society for at least two (2) years.  The chairman shall be the Immediate Past Chair. Others on the committee shall be the Chair, Chair Elect and two or more other members not currently serving on the GSAE Board of Directors.  Names of nominating committee members and an invitation for recommendations for candidates for nomination shall be announced to the membership at least sixty (60) days prior to the annual business meeting.  The nominating committee shall submit at least one (1) name for each available elective office of the Society and said slate shall be presented, in writing, to the membership at least thirty (30) days prior to the annual business meeting and again, orally, at the annual business meeting.

B.  Candidates. All candidates shall be members in good standing.

C.  Nominating Process.  All nominations shall be made by either the Nominating Committee or by written petition of not less than 5 percent of the membership. The Nominating Committee shall notify the membership, in writing, of its choice not less than thirty (30) days before the annual business meeting.  After this time, any member nominated by a written petition containing the signatures of not less than 5 percent of the membership will be placed on the ballot, along with the nominees of the Nominating Committee, so long as the written petition accompanied by the nominee(s)' written statement of willingness to serve is received by the President not less than seven (7) calendar days prior to the annual business meeting, not including the day of the annual business meeting, except that the office of Chair is automatically filled in accordance with provisions of Article V, Section 1.