COMMITTEE CORNER
Committee Volunteer Appointments Begin
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t’s that time of the year again—between the new year and first major ASA volunteer assignment, while Wilson is a former
convocation of the Joint Statistical Meetings—when the ASA’s president of the Arizona Chapter.
president-elect begins making more than 150 committee The Committee on Law and Justice Statistics will gain two new
appointments for their presidential year. Accordingly, 2008 members next year: Laura Dugan of the University of Maryland
president-elect Sally Morton has begun making her appointments and William Fairley of Analysis & Interference Inc. This is
and reappointments for 2009. Dugan’s first committee assignment, while Fairley returns to the
Beginning with the new committee chair appointments, John ranks after serving on the Committee of Representatives to AAAS
H. Thompson of NORC has been selected to serve as the 2009 from 1996–1997.
chair for the Committee on Fellows. As all chairs of this committee The Committee on Statistics and Disability will gain the services
have, Thompson will complete the final year of his single term of Long H. Ngo of Harvard Medical School for his first committee
of service as a committee member while serving as chair. Joining role. Another committee rookie is Soomin Park of Eli Lilly, who
him on the committee next year will be Robert R. Starbuck of will join the team of the Committee on Women in Statistics. Park
West Chester, Pennsylvania, and Carol Gotway Crawford of the is a longtime ASA volunteer, however, having served as president
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Starbuck has been an of the Central Indiana Chapter.
ASA member for more than 30 years and has served as chair of both New to the Noether Awards Committee is Marina Vannucci
the Deming Lectureship and Statistics Partnerships in Academe, of Rice University. This is Vannucci’s first committee assignment,
Industry, and Government (SPAIG) committees. Crawford is although she has been both secretary and treasurer of the Section
another 30-year veteran of the ASA and former committee chair; on Nonparametric Statistics.
in her case, the Committee on Energy Statistics. Joining the Committee on Professional Ethics in Statistics will
Similar to Thompson, Brian Millen of Eli Lilly will serve as be Lyle Broemeling of Broemeling and Associates Inc. This will be
the 2009 chair of the Committee on Minorities in Statistics while Broemeling’s first committee assignment.
completing his first term as a member of that committee. Joining Jessica L. Thomson of the U.S. Department of Agriculture has
Millen as 2009 members of the Committee on Minorities in agreed to serve on the SPAIG Committee. She joins this committee
Statistics will be Akhil K. Vaish of Research Triangle Institute and following her service on ASA President Peter Lachenbruch’s
Jeffrey R. Wilson of Arizona State University. This will be Vaish’s Communications and Professional Development Task Force. ■
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