Category: Elections

The NASSCAL First Fridays workshop taking place October 6 will also be the time that we elect a new Board of Directors. Ideally, this would be done at a bi-annual meeting of the Society, but we do not have an in-person meeting planned for this year (though we are hoping to mount a NASSCAL conference in 2024 or 2025).

Here are the relevant by-laws for election of the NASSCAL board.

Article III.  Nomination and Election of Directors and Officers

Section 1. Nomination.

Nomination for election to the Board of Directors and officers shall be made by a nominating committee. Self-nominations are encouraged and may also be made from the floor at the bi-annual meeting. The nominating committee shall make as many nominations for election to each designated office of the Board of Directors and to each position on the Board not designated as an officer as it shall in its discretion determine, but not less than the number of vacancies that are to be filled.

Section 2. Nominating Committee.

The Nominating Committee shall consist of three members of the Society who shall be appointed by the President. The members will be appointed six months before the bi-annual meeting and will serve until the conclusion of the bi-annual meeting. The list of nominees shall be distributed to the membership at least three (3) weeks prior to the meeting.

Section 3. Election.

Election to the Board of Directors shall take place at each annual meeting. At such election the members or their proxies may cast, in respect to each vacancy, one (1) vote. Voting will take the form of a show of hands; nominated members will be asked to leave the room during voting. The person nominated for each position receiving a majority of the votes cast shall be elected.

Again, because we are not meeting in-person, the election will take place at the online First Fridays workshop.

The nominations committee has put forward the following names to constitute the 2023–2025 board:

Executive

President: Lily Vuong (automatic transition from Vice-President)

Vice-President: Eric Vanden Eykel

Immediate Past President: Brandon Hawk (automatic transition from President)

Student Member: Jonathan Holste

Communications: Jeannie Sellick

Independent Scholar Member: Slavomír Čéplö

Members at large

Mark Bilby (continuing)

Tony Burke (continuing)

Cristian Cardozo

Meghan Henning (continuing)

Jacob Lollar

Hugo Lundhaug (continuing)

Julia Snyder (continuing)

Again, nominations can also come from the floor.

We hope you will join us for the October 6 meeting, to say farewell (and thank you) to the previous board, and welcome to the new.

The NASSCAL First Fridays workshop taking place October 1 will also be the time that we elect a new Board of Directors. Ideally, this would be done at a bi-annual meeting of the Society, but the pandemic has scuttled plans for face-to-face meetings for the time being. On the positive side, online gatherings allow for participation from a greater number of members and from a wider geographical area.

Here are the relevant by-laws for election of the NASSCAL board.

Article III.  Nomination and Election of Directors and Officers

Section 1. Nomination.

Nomination for election to the Board of Directors and officers shall be made by a nominating committee. Self-nominations are encouraged and may also be made from the floor at the bi-annual meeting. The nominating committee shall make as many nominations for election to each designated office of the Board of Directors and to each position on the Board not designated as an officer as it shall in its discretion determine, but not less than the number of vacancies that are to be filled.

Section 2. Nominating Committee.

The Nominating Committee shall consist of three members of the Society who shall be appointed by the President. The members will be appointed six months before the bi-annual meeting and will serve until the conclusion of the bi-annual meeting. The list of nominees shall be distributed to the membership at least three (3) weeks prior to the meeting.

Section 3. Election.

Election to the Board of Directors shall take place at each annual meeting. At such election the members or their proxies may cast, in respect to each vacancy, one (1) vote. Voting will take the form of a show of hands; nominated members will be asked to leave the room during voting. The person nominated for each position receiving a majority of the votes cast shall be elected.

A call for self-nominations went out in March 2021. Based on the responses to that call, and on discussion among the nominations committee, the following names are being put forward to constitute the 2021-2023 board:

Executive

President: Brandon Hawk (automatic transition from Vice-President)

Vice-President: Lily Vuong

Immediate Past President: Janet Spittler (automatic transition from President)

Student Member: Nathan Hardy

Communications: Lorne Zelyck

Members at large

Mark Bilby

Tony Burke

Greg Fewster

Meghan Henning

Julia Lindenlaub

Hugo Lundhaug

Julia Snyder

Again, nominations can also come from the floor. Another item on the agenda for the October online meeting is the creation of a new position on the executive: Independent Scholars Member. If accepted, the position will begin in 2023.

We hope you will join us for the October 1 meeting, to say farewell (and thank you) to the previous board, and welcome to the new.

The General Meeting of NASSCAL will take place at the upcoming Material of Christian Apocrypha conference in Charlottesville, Nov. 30-Dec. 1 (details HERE). The Meeting will be our opportunity to elect a new Board of Directors, including a new Vice-President, Communications Officer, Student Board Member and seven members-at-large. Janet Spittler will become President and Tony Burke will become Immediate Past President.

The Nominations Committee, comprised of Vice-President Janet Spittler, Board Member Stanley Jones, and Student Member Bradley Rice, has assembled the following list of nominees for the remaining positions:

Brandon Hawk (Vice President and President-Elect)
Eric Vanden Eykel (Communications Officer)
Jonathan Henry (Student Member)

Members-at-large:

Slavomír Čéplö
Cornelia Horn
Stanley Jones
Stephen Pelle
Julia Snyder
Lily Vuong
Lorne Zelyck

The NASSCAL by-laws allow also for self-nominations from the membership. The Nominations Committee must be notified of self-nominations by midnight of Nov. 15.

In the event that no additional nominations are received, the Board will be acclaimed. If voting is required, ballots will be sent to NASSCAL members. These will be presented at the general meeting where the formal election will take place.

Please address any inquiries to the Nominations Committee via Janet Spittler ([email protected]).