The Nominating Committee of the ADR Section has released its slate of nominees for election to the Section Council at the Annual Meeting in Ocean City. The Nominating Committee consisted of Section Chair Melanie Vaughn, Immediate Past Chair Roger Wolf, and Vice Chair Bob Park, Jr., who served as the Committee’s Chair.

The Committee’s recommendations for Officers and Council members for 2002-2003 are:

1. Officers: Under the ADR Section By-Laws, as Chair and Vice-Chair this year, respectively, Melanie Vaughn will become the Immediate Past Chair and Bob Park, Jr. will become the Chair for the coming year. In addition, the Committee is nominating Trish Miller (our current Secretary) as Vice-Chair and Jonathan Rosenthal (a current Section Council member) as Secretary for the coming year.
2. Council Members: For the coming year, there are 4 seats on the Council to be filled by election. Those are the 4 seats that were originally for 2 years when the ADR Section was created in June 2000. The four seats are currently occupied by Mike McWilliams, Steve Platt, Mary Louise Preis and Rachel Wohl. Consistent with a commitment to involve other members of the Section on the Section Council, the Committee is nominating Venetia Bell, Danny O’Connor, Mark Scurti and Elizabeth Yarema for these 4 seats, which will be for 3-year terms each under our By-Laws.

In addition, there are 3 other vacancies that need to be filled on the Section Council for the coming year. These vacancies are the following:

1. Council member Tom Lynch’s remaining 2 years in his term;
2. Jonathan Rosenthal’s remaining 2 years in his term (if he is elected Secretary); and,
3. Trish Miller’s remaining 1 year of her term (if she is elected to Section Council Vice Chair).

The Committee nominated the following Section members to fill these seats: Doug Furlong (for Tom Lynch), Geoff Genth (for Jonathan Rosenthal) and Bill Byrnes (for Trish Miller). Under ADR Section By-Laws, the vacancies of unexpired terms are filled by vote of the Section Council, not the Section membership. That vote was taken and those positions were filled with no dissenting votes.

Respectfully submitted,

Robert C. Park, Jr., Esquire,
Chair, Nominating Committee