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President as ex-officio AND Committee Chairman


Guest Beth Lee Spinner

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Guest Beth Lee Spinner

The Bylaws of our organization include the following:

Under Duties of Officers, President - "...serve on all other committees in a non-voting ex-officio status; and shall appoint all committee members,..."

Under Committees, Standing Committees - "All standing committees shall be chaired by a member of the Board of Directors. The President shall appoint all committees and shall be an ex-officio, non-voting member of all committees."

With these listings in the Bylaws, and the RONR explanation of "ex-officio", can the President appoint herself a Chair of one of the Standing Committees?

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Nothing in what you quoted gives the president that authority. She appoints members but it is then up to the members (absent other unquoted bylaw provisions) to select their own chair, subject to the "Board of Directors" membership limitation.

I would tend to agree with that viewpoint but it seems that pp. 175-176 suggests the President can name herself as the committee chairman by naming herself first when she appoints the committee members.

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I would tend to agree with that viewpoint but it seems that pp. 175-176 suggests the President can name herself as the committee chairman by naming herself first when she appoints the committee members.

In Roman numerals, that would be p. 168.

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