2008 board of directors approved

HR Magazine, Nov, 2007 by Kathy Gurchiek

Members of the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) have approved a slate of candidates to serve on the 2008 SHRM Board of Directors.

Candidates elected to a one-year term are:

Robb E. Van Cleave, SPHR, IPMA-CP, chair-designate. He is the executive director of HR and strategic planning for Columbia Gorge Community College. He will become chair of the board in 2009 and serve a two-year term.

Melvin L. Asbury, SPHR, director. He is president of Asbury Consulting LLC and senior vice president of the HR Group Inc.

Mary Cheddie, SPHR, director. She is senior vice president of HR and member of the Executive Committee for Interval International.

Calvin W. Finch, CPA, director. He is vice president, CFO and treasurer of CPP Inc.

Bette J. Francis, SPHR, director. She is vice president of HR with Wilmington Trust, Wealth Advisory Services.

Gary P. Latham, Ph.D., director. He is the Secretary of State Professor of Organizational Effectiveness at the University of Toronto, Rotman School of Management.

Virda M. Rhem, SPHR, director. She is director of HR for Texas Property and Casualty Insurance Guaranty Association in Austin, Texas.

The slate is nominated by the Governance Committee of the SHRM Board of Directors and approved by the Board. Van Cleave, Asbury, Cheddie, Finch and Francis are current board members with Latham and Rhem serving as the Board's newest members in 2008.

Continuing on the Board for 2008 is Janet N. Parker, SPHR, who will finish her two-year term as chair, joined by Rita Bennett, Jose A. Berrios, and Audrey Boone Tillman, J.D., all elected as directors in 2006 to serve two-year terms running through 2008.

Also, Beverly K. Carmichael, J.D., SPHR, and Carolyn Gould, SPHR, GPHR, CCP, were both elected in 2006 to serve as directors for three-year terms running through 2009. Susan R. Meisinger, SPHR, SHRM president and CEO, serves as an officio non-voting board member.

SHRM's Board voted at its Aug. 24 meeting to remove the positions of secretary and treasurer from the board of directors, effective Jan. 1, 2008. Those positions have been designated as non-elected officer positions to be filled by SHRM staff members who will not be directors.

--Kathy Gurchiek is associate editor for HR News.

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