Nominations are invited for 16 AVMA council vacancies, 23 committee seats, and three openings on trusts (see chart). Three of the council openings and four committee vacancies are new since the call for nominations was published in the Oct 1, 2000 JAVMA. The Council on Public Health and Regulatory Veterinary Medicine has an unexpired term ending in July 2003 representing "agricultural agencies." On the same council, a vacancy exists for an unexpired term ending in July 2002 representing "public health agencies or the armed forces." (A full, six-year term in that same category was announced previously and also must be filled.) An open seat on the Council on Education, expiring in July 2002, exists for "private small animal clinical practice." The Educational Commission for Foreign Veterinary Graduates has a six-year term available for a "veterinarian who is a member of a state licensing board." Three three-year terms are open on the Member Services Committee representing "private clinical practice," "academic veterinary medicine," and "recent graduates" (within seven years). Council nominations must be postmarked no later than Feb 1. Committee and trust nominations must be postmarked by March 6, and so must nominations to the House Advisory Committee for the AVMA Political Action Committee Advisory Board seat. Information on the process and nomination forms can be obtained by calling AVMA headquarters at (800) 248-2862, ext 221. | Committee, trust, policy board vacancies to be filled by Executive Board | | Committee or group | Term
length
(years) | Maximal
number
of terms | Professional category of vacancy | Incumbents | | Group Health and Life Insurance Trust | 4 | 3 | Member-at-large (two positions) | *George E. Pickens
*Thomas C. Eubanks | | Professional Liability Insurance Trust | 4 | 3 | Member-at-large (one position) | *Thomas L. Isaac | | Aquaculture and Seafood Advisory Committee | 3 | 2 | State, federal, and regulatory medicine
Extension and diagnostic services
Research and aquatic animal health | *Cesar Ruiz
*Jerry R. Heidel
*Sherman W. Jack | | Convention Management and Program Committee | 3 | 2 | Chairman
Public and Corporate Section manager
Veterinary Technician Section manager | *Dennis M. McCurnin
*John R. Herbold
*Dean E. Knoll | | Committee on Environmental Affairs | 3 | 2 | Private food animal clinical practice
Private equine clinical practice
Marine or aquatic medicine | Joseph G. Clark
*James D. Smith
*Val Beasley | | Committee on the Human-Animal Bond | 6 | 1 | Veterinary ethology
Public health | Robert K. Anderson
*John C. New | | Educational Commission for Foreign Veterinary Graduates | 6 | 1 | Veterinarian who is a member of a state licensing board | | | Member Services Committee | 3 | 2 | Private clinical practice
Academic veterinary medicine
Recent graduate (within 7 years) | *Gerhardt G. Goemann
*George Looby
*Kendra Greiner | | Political Action Committee Policy Board | 2 | 3 | Zone 1 (eastern states)
Zone 3 (western states) | *Richard D. Wilkes
Jack O. Walther | | Committee on Veterinary Technician Education and Activities | 6 | 1 | Large animal clinical veterinary medicine
Regulatory veterinary medicine | Gary Leff
Lenn Harrison |
*Eligible for reappointment
| Council vacancies to be filled by House of Delegates | | Council | Professional category of vacancy | Member whose terms are expiring | | Biologic and Therapeutic Agents | Private practice, predominantly food animal | Donald Niles | | Education | Private small animal clinical practice
Large animal clinical science
Private equine practice
Veterinary medical research | Unexpired 1-year term
Jenks S. Britt
Walter W. Zent
Charles E. Short | | Judicial | No category specified | James R. Scott | | Public Health and Regulatory Veterinary Medicine | Public health agencies or the armed forces
Agricultural agencies | Kevin F. Reilly, and unexpired 1-year term
J. Lee Alley, and unexpired 2-year term | | Public Relations | Private practice, predominantly small animal
At-large** | Sheldon B. Rubin
Robert J. Krapfl** | | Research* | Veterinary medical research
Private clinical practice | Christopher C. L. Chase
Alan Rebar | | Veterinary Service | Private mixed practice, predominantly food animal or equine
Academic clinical science | Fay A. Vittetoe
Dale E. Bjorling |
* Both of these expiring positions represented veterinary medical research. A 1999 Bylaws amendment changed two of the eight research positions to private clinical practice as current positions expire. One position changed in 2000 and the second one will change in 2001.
** Eligible for reelection
Note: For the purpose of category designation, the word "predominantly" means that 50 percent or more of the candidate's professional activity is in the category specified, and "exclusively" means that 90 percent or more of the candidate's professional activity is in the category specified.
| Board vacancies to be filled by House Advisory Committee | | Committee or group | Term
length
(years) | Maximal
number
of terms | Professional category of vacancy | Incumbents | | Political Action Committee Policy Board | 2 | 3 | Zone 2 (central states) | *Louis T. Anderson |
*Eligible for reappointment |
