2022-2023 MARS Election Voting Now Open, Sept. 19-23, 2022

Thank you to all who considered standing as a candidate for standing in the 2022 Military Archives Section election for the 2022-2023 cycle. We are providing the candidate's statement through our SAA MARS microsite page here, for you to review prior to any voting. Please take some time to review the candidate(s) statements and get to know them so you can make an informed choice.

You will be voting for:

    One Vice Chair/Chair-Elect for a two-year term

The new chair of the MARS Section is Cara McCormick, who was elected as the Vice Chair/Chair-Elect in 2021. The communication liaison for the coming year will continue to be Matthew Peek, who began his two-year term in 2021.

Ballots will be managed by SAA staff through Survey Monkey, with the election voting now open from September 19 to September 23, 2022, closing at end of day (please vote by 6PM EST just to be safe in case something happens with the link!). The link for the SAA MARS election voting is here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/QMH5FXS. As we currently only have one candidate for the position of Vice Chair/Chair-Elect, you are welcome to submit write-in candidates for consideration.

This year's candidate(s) for Vice Chair/Chair-Elect Candidate(s) are:

The following candidate is running for the Vice Chair/Chair-Elect position:Beth Ann Koelsch (Curator of the Betty H. Carter Women Veterans Historical Project at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro).