2012–2013 Slate for the AAA Board of Directors

Important changes in the way members of the AAA Board of Directors
are elected under the revised Bylaws

In implementing the Bylaws changes approved by member vote in Spring 2011, the AAA will be holding contested elections this year. Accordingly, at least two competing candidates for each position will be presented to the membership for a vote.

Also passed by the Bylaws revision is the Governance Review Task Force recommendation that the AAA Council’s role be strengthened through establishing three-year terms, and that each year the new standing Council Ballot Committee (CBC) will choose candidates for one position on the Board of Directors (BOD) ballot (so that once that cycle is complete, three members of the BOD will come from Council nominations).

The AAA Nominations Committee, tasked with putting forth the slate of candidates for President-Elect and Vice-President Research and Publications, announces the following candidates:

President–Elect

• Mary Barth, Stanford University
• Mark Higgins, University of Rhode Island

Vice-President Research and Publications

• Sudipta Basu, Temple University
• Steve Kachelmeier, University of Texas-Austin

The Council Ballot Committee, tasked with putting forth the slate of candidates for Director - focusing on Segments (Sections & Regions), announces the following candidates:

Director-Focusing on Segments

• Anne Christensen, Montana State University-Bozeman
• Linda Parsons, University of Alabama-Tuscaloosa

Terms
New officers will serve on the Board of Directors for three years beginning at the Annual Meeting in August 2012 in Washington, D.C.

Voting Process

• Consistent with the AAA Bylaws, additional nominations may be made by a petition signed by not less than one hundred (100) members of the Association submitted to the Executive Director at the AAA headquarters office at 5717 Bessie Drive, Sarasota, FL 34233-2399, and received no later than 11:59 pm Eastern Standard Time (EST) on Monday, January 30, 2012. Persons so nominated must have previously agreed to serve if elected. The membership of the Association shall be notified prior to the election of the nominations made by petition.
  
  
• According to the AAA Bylaws, the election shall take place by mail, facsimile, or electronic vote of the members.
  
  
• Regular and Life members of the Association are eligible to vote in elections conducted by the Association; however, Student members are not eligible to participate in the Association election process.
  
  
• Online voting shall take place between Thursday, March 15, 2012 and Friday, April 13, 2012, at 11:59 pm Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) (Detailed voting instructions will be provided later via the AAA website and multi-topic emails.)
  
  
• Paper ballots will be mailed to all members 1) without a valid email address and 2) who are on the AAA "do not email" list.
  
  
• The AAA website, a future issue of the Accounting Education News, and the Officer Ballot will include biographies and photos of the nominees, including any nominated by petition.

Nominations Committee
The AAA Nominations Committee shall consist of the two most recent Past Presidents willing and able to serve and five members elected by the Council. The five elected members cannot be current members of either the Council or the Board of Directors. The Nominations Committee shall be chaired by the most senior, in service, of the Past Presidents serving. Members of the AAA Nominations Committee are not eligible for nomination. Members of the 2011-12 Nominations Committee are: Nancy A. Bagranoff, Chair, AAA Past President, University of Richmond; Kevin D. Stocks, AAA Past President, Brigham Young University; Susan V. Crosson, Santa Fe College; Paul M. Healy, Harvard Business School; William E. McCarthy, Michigan State University; L. Murphy Smith, Murray State University; and Mary Harris Stanford, Texas Christian University.

Council Ballot Committee
The newly structured Council decided that the CBC should function as a "committee of the whole" in this first transition year. Each year the CBC will choose at least two names to appear on the ballot for one position on the Board of Directors ballot. When a three-year cycle is completed, three members on the BOD will come from Council nominations. The new standing Council Ballot Committee, established with last Spring’s Bylaws revision, was chaired this inaugural year by Paul F. Williams, North Carolina State.

Many thanks to the AAA Nominations Committee, chaired by Nancy Bagranoff, and the Council Ballot Committee, chaired by Paul Williams, for completing the important task of creating the contested slate for the AAA Board of Directors.

If you have any questions, please contact Barbara Gutierrez, Committee Coordinator, at barbara.gutierrez@aaahq.org or (941) 556-4117.

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