The Nominating Committee of the MidAmerica Region (MAR) of the Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA) seeks your help. Unitarian-Universalists are committed to diverse volunteer leadership, and our committee is seeking candidates for the Regional Board and the Nominating Committee itself.

We seek to nominate individuals to reflect the full diversity of the Region, especially in regard to historically marginalized communities, but also balancing amongst size of congregation, lay and ordained, geography, age (including youth and young adults), and gender, among other characteristics. Members in good standing of one of the member congregations of the Region or CLF members residing within MAR geography are eligible to serve.

The Board of Trustees is responsible for governance between annual meetings of the member congregations. There are nine members serving three-year terms. The President, Vice President, Secretary, Treasurer, and Members-at-Large are elected directly by delegates at the annual meeting.

The Nominating Committee has seven members serving two-year terms. This committee recruits volunteers to serve on MAR’s Board of Trustees, Nominating Committee, Midwestern UU Conference board, and Camp UniStar Board.

Please ask your members and ministers, perhaps particularly your past General Assembly and MidAmerica Regional Assembly participants, as well as graduates of the Midwest Leadership School, if they will consider serving the MidAmerica Region of the UUA in any of these ways. We would appreciate your response before the holidays, but at least by January 7, so we can meet our deadline. Please send your suggestions by email (Subject Line: MAR Nominee), with email and telephone contact information of proposed nominees, to one of our members:

Kay Slama, Co-Chair slama@morris.umn.edu
Bob Lovell, Co-Chair boblovell@comcast.net
Betty V. Holcomb, Member bettyvholcomb@gmail.com
Claude Diogo, Member claude_diogo@cargill.com

We very much appreciate your attention to proposing nominees.