chair appointments

[Guest jerome manning]

Can a chair of a commitee apoint herself to be chair of a sub committe?

[Rob Elsman]

Can a chair of a commitee apoint herself to be chair of a sub committe?

No rule in RONR gives the chairman of a committee the power to appoint the chairman of a subcommittee. You would have to look to the rules of your organization or the motion/resolution establishing the subcommittee to see whether your committee chairman has this power.

[Tim Wynn]

Can a chair of a commitee apoint herself to be chair of a sub committe?

... with the approval of the committee, yes.

[Rob Elsman]

... with the approval of the committee, yes.

Well, in lieu of a controlling rule of the organzation, I think the committee can use any one of the five methods discussed in RONR (10th ed.), pp. 475-479, to name the members of the subcommittee. What power the committee chairman has depends on the method chosen.

[Tim Wynn]

Well, in lieu of a controlling rule of the organzation, I think the committee can use any one of the five methods discussed in RONR (10th ed.), pp. 475-479, to name the members of the subcommittee. What power the committee chairman has depends on the method chosen.

Isn't that what I said?

[Rob Elsman]

Isn't that what I said?

No, but I wish it had been.

[Gary Novosielski]

Can a chair of a commit[t]ee ap[p]oint herself to be chair of a sub committe[e]?

A committee can take it upon itself to appoint subcommittees of its own members, which report to it. Unless authorized by the assembly, however, it cannot adopt rules of its own. [RONR (10th ed.), p. 480, l.11-17; p. 482-84.]

In other words, the chair, on her own authority, cannot appoint herself or anyone else. The committee can.