ICA NEWS: ICA Members Elect New Leadership Team

 

The voting members of the International Chiropractors Association have chosen Dr. C. J. Mertz as the Association's President for the next two years.  Dr. Mertz, from Dripping Springs, Texas, becomes the 14th President of the ICA, an organization founded in 1926 by Dr. B.J. Palmer.  Dr. Fred H. Barge, well-known author, lecturer and former ICA President in his own right,  has been elected Vice President for a comparable term and Dr. Christopher Quigley of Boston, Massachusetts, has been elected ICA's Secretary Treasurer.

The results of this democratic process were announced at ICA's 77th Annual Meeting on May 16th 2003, in Kansas City, Missouri.

In elections for United States Regional Director positions, where ICA members in four geographic regions vote for their regional director, Dr. Elliot Foster was re-elected as the Northeastern Regional Director, and Dr. John Maltby was elected to the position of Western Regional Director.  Dr. Brian Flannery and Dr. Robert Braile were unopposed in their contests for Central and Southern Regional Director respectively. All four regional directors will serve for a period of four years.  Dr. Claudia Sandino of Valencia, Spain was re-elected to a two-year term as ICA's International Regional Director by ICA's Representative Assembly, which convened in their Annual Meeting along with ICA's Board of Directors, in Kansas City.

"All of the candidates have asked me to convey their thanks to all ICA members, in the United States and around the world, who participated in this open and democratic leadership election process," said Dr. Gary Walsemann, Chair of ICA's Legal Affairs Committee. The Legal Affairs Committee oversees the election process. According to Dr. Walsemann this was one of the closest elections in ICA's history and demonstrates how each and every vote of the membership counts in this democratic process.

The newly elected officers and Board members took office immediately upon the conclusion of the 2003 Annual Meeting.  "I want to thank you for your tremendous support; it is an honor and a privilege to be elected as the fourteenth President of the International Chiropractors Association,"  Dr. Mertz said in his first official statement as ICA President.  "Twenty first century chiropractic needs an identity that encompasses our core principles while at the same time advancing us into the consciousness of communities around the world.  We must become the best volunteer organization on earth.  The only way this will happen is by creating a vision for our future that each of us can be proud to pass on to the next generation,"  Dr. Mertz added.   

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