Elementary Section Nominating Committee

The Elementary Section Nominating Committee prepares a slate of candidates for vacancies that occur annually on the Elementary Section Steering Committee and selects candidates for the succeeding year's Elementary Section Nominating Committee.  The candidate who receives the largest number of votes in the election will chair the Nominating Committee.

All nominating committees attend the Annual Convention in November.  Members meet on Saturday and Sunday mornings to discuss the names submitted by mail, to solicit further nominations, and to generate nominations from within the Committee as needed.

2006-2007
Ruby Clayton, Cold Spring School, Indianapolis, Indiana, Chair
Danling Fu, University of Florida, Gainesville
Wendy C. Kasten, Kent State University, Ohio

2005-2006
Amy McClure, Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, Chair
Nancy Creech, Arbor Elementary School, Roseville, Michigan
Victoria Dixon-Mokeba, Lexington School District Two, Lexington, South Carolina

2004-2005
Phyllis Whitin, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, Chair
Peggy Albers, Georgia State University, Atlanta
Rick Meyer, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque

2003-2004
Tim O'Keefe, Center for Inquiry, Columbia, South Carolina, Chair
Maryann Manning, University of Alabama, Birmingham
Sharon Murphy, York University, North York, Ontario, Canada

2002-2003
Shelley Harwayne, Community School District #2, New York, NY, Chair
Beth Berghoff, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis
María E. Franquíz, University of Texas, San Antonio

2001-2002
Alan Flurkey, Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY, Chair
Judith Green, University of California at Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA
Valerie Brown, Hamline School, Chicago, IL

2000–2001
Karen Smith, Arizona State University, Tempe, Chair
Barbara H. Bell, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC
Rise M. Paynter, Binford Elementary School, Bloomington, IN 

1999–2000
Jo Anne Wong-Kam, Punahou School, HI, Chair
Carol Gilles, University of Missouri, Columbia
Prisca Martens, IUPUI-ES 3123, Indianapolis, IN 

1998–1999
Kathryn Mitchell Pierce, Glenridge Elementary School, St. Louis, MO, Chair
Bernice E. Cullinan, Sands Point, NY 11050
Debra Goodman, Michigan State University, East Lansing

1997–1998
Bill Brummett, Geneseo Central School, NY, Chair
Marianne Marino, Central School, Glen Rock, NY
Chris Rinner, Aurora Heights School, Newton IA 

1996–1997
Katherine Oboyski-Butler, Guilderland Elementary School, Albany, NY, Chair
D. Yvonne Cofer, Carstens Elementary School, Detroit, MI
Aurelia Davila de Silva, Educational Consultant, San Antonio, TX 

1995–1996
Jill Vickers, Ticonderoga Elementary School, NY, Chair
Jill Sunday Bartoli, Elizabethtown College, PA
Margaret Yatsevitch Phinney, University of Minnesota

1994–1995
Jane Hansen, University of New Hampshire, Durham, Chair
Barbara Flores, California State University, San Bernardino
Debra Goodman, Dewey Urban Learning Center, Detroit, MI 

1993–1994
Nancie Atwell, Center for Teaching and Learning, ME, Chair
Glenda Bissex, Northeastern University Institute on Writing & Teaching, VT
Jill Dillard, Augusta, Georgia