Board Member Requesting Committee Report

[Guest Sheri' Snyder]

Must a nominations/election committee comply with the request of a Board member to provide a current list of nominees or must the Board member wait until the list is released to the general membership>

[Bruce Lages]

Under the rules in RONR, the nominating committee reports to whatever body will be doing the electing - typically, but not always, the general membership. In some organizations, it may be the board that does the electing. But regardless of which body the nominating committee reports to, its report is usually given when it has completed its job of selecting nominees. Before that, only committee members would have a right to see the committee's notes (committees do not normally keep detailed minutes, since the final report is the summary of their work).

The body that appointed the committee can require it to produce an interim report on its work, but certainly no one person can require that. And for a nominating committee, I think that would be a rare and unusual demand.