Elections

Members of the Users Organization Board of Directors are typically elected for 2-year terms. Each year, some members rotate off and a new election is held to replace these members. After the 2014 JLUO BoD bylaws change, the Vice-Chair starts being elected each year to serve consecutively as Chair-Elect, Chair and Past-Chair for one year term. Previously was an election for the chair-elect every other year. The Spring 2018 Elections have recently concluded - the winners will be announced at the upcoming Annual User Group Meeting. Below are the announcements for the past election cycles - the next election will happen in Spring 2019.

Elections in Spring 2018

The following positions on the UG Board of Directors will become vacant on May 31, 2018 and will be filled by newly elected members:

1. Vice-Chair (1 year term; will then become Chair-Elect, Chair and Past-Chair for 1 year each).
2. Three members at large (2-year terms). Angela Biselli, Marco Contalbrigo and Charles Hyde will have completed their 2-year terms.
3. A member who can represent the Postdocs working at JLab (also a 2-year term). Nathan baltzell will have completed his 2-year term.
4. A member who can represent the Graduate Students working at JLab (2 years term). The former student representative C. Palatchi will be graduating soon and has rotated off the board after one year term.

The election is now closed. The newly elected members will be announced at the June Users' Meeting. Their term begins at the end of that meeting.

Elections in Spring 2017

The following positions on the UG Board of Directors will become vacant on May 31, 2017 and will be filled by newly elected members:

1. Vice-Chair (1 year term; will then become Chair-Elect, Chair and Past-Chair for 1 year each).
2. Two members at large (2-year terms). Volker Crede and Nadia Fomin will have completed their 2-year terms.
3. Misak Sargsian will conclude his term as the Experiment/Theory Liaison.
4. A member who can represent the Graduate Students working at JLab (2 years term). The former student representative Holly Szumila-Vance graduated in Spring of 2017 and was rotated off the board after one year term.

Please exercise your right (and duty) as a member of the Jefferson Lab Users Group (recently named as the Jefferson Lab Users Organization) and help elect the new members.

Elections in Spring 2016

The following positions on the UG Board of Directors will become vacant on May 31, 2016 and will be filled by newly elected members:

1. Vice-Chair (1 year term; will then become Chair Elect, Chair and Past-Chair for 1 year each). John Arrington will have completed his term as Past-Chair.
2. Three members at large (2-year terms). Garth Huber, Silvia Niccolai and Elton Smith will have completed their 2-year terms.
3. A member who can represent the Graduate Students working at JLab (2 years term). Melissa Cummings will rotate off the board.
4. A member who can represent the Postdocs working at JLab (also a 2-year term). Ellie Long will have completed her 2-year term.

The election is now closed. The newly elected members will be announced at the June Users' Meeting. Their term begins at the end of that meeting.

Elections in Spring 2015

The following positions on the UG Board of Directors will become vacant on May 31, 2015 and will be filled by newly elected members:

1. Chair Elect (1 year term; will then become the Chair for 1 year followed by 1 year as Past-Chair).
2. Vice-Chair (1 year term; will then become Chair-Elect, Chair and Past-Chair for 1 year each).
3. Two members at large (2-year terms). Dipangkar Dutta and Steffen Strauch Ito will have completed their 2-year terms.
4. Jose Goity will conclude his term as Experiment/Theory Liaison.

Please exercise your right (and duty) as a member of the Jefferson Lab Users Group and help elect the new members.

Elections in Spring 2014

The following positions on the UG Board of Directors will become vacant on May 31, 2014 and will be filled by newly elected members:

1. Chair Elect (1 year term; will then become the Chair for 1 year followed by 1 year as Past-Chair). Sebastian Kuhn will have completed his term as Past-Chair.
2. Three members at large (2-year terms). Annalisa D'angelo, Eugene Pasyuk and Eric Voutier will have completed their 2-year terms.
3. A member who can represent the Graduate Students working at JLab (2 year term). Natalie Walford will rotate off the board.
4. A member who can represent the Postdocs working at JLab (also a 2-year term). Katherine Myers will have completed her 2-year term.

The election is now closed, it included also a vote to change the (informal) JLUO BoD bylaws for future Chair-line election. The newly elected members will be announced at June Users' Meeting. Their term begins at the end of that meeting.

Elections in Spring 2013

The following positions on the UG Board of Directors will become vacant on May 31, 2013 and will be filled by newly elected members:

1. Two members at large (2-year terms). Kent Paschke and Mark Ito will have completed their 2-year terms.
2. Anatoly Radyushkin (Jlab) will conclude his term as Experiment/Theory Liaison

Please exercise your right (and duty) as a member of the Jefferson Lab Users Group and help elect the new members. You can also vote on a proposed change in the (informal) rules for future elections.

Elections in Spring 2012

The following positions on the UG Board of Directors will become vacant in June 2012:

1. Chair Elect (1 year term; will then become the Chair for 2 years followed by 1 year as Past-Chair). Zein-Eddine Meziani will have completed his term as Past-Chair.
2. Three members at large (2-year terms). Dan Carman, Kawtar Hafidi and Karl Slifer will have completed their 2-year terms.
3. A member who can represent the Graduate Students working at JLab (2 year term). Rakitha Beminiwattha will rotate off the board.
4. A member who can represent the Postdocs working at JLab (also a 2-year term). Aidan Kelleher will have completed his 2-year term.

The elections are now closed. The newly elected members will be announced at the June 04-06 Users' Meeting (http://conferences.jlab.org/ugm/index.html). Their term begins at the end of that meeting.

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The following members of the board have rotated off at the end of the June 2011 Annual User Group Meeting:

1. Andre Afanasev (JLab)
2. Ioana Niculescu (JMU)
3. Phil Cole (ISU)

They have been replaced by:

1. Anatoly Radyushkin (Jlab) will become the new Experiment/Theory Liasion
2. Kent Paschke (at large member)
3. Mark Ito (at large member)

Sucheta Jawalkar (Student representative) graduated in Fall of 2011 and was replaced by Rakitha Beminiwattha who will complete her term (until June 2012). Zein-Eddine Meziani moved from the Chair to the Past-Chair position, and Sebastian Kuhn became Chair after finishing his term as Chair-Elect.