Section A – Membership

The Nominating committee shall be composed of all past presidents. The immediate past president shall be the chairman.

 
Section B – Responsibilities

1.      The Nominating Committee shall request nominations for candidates for all the ILDA offices from the regional branches and from the congregations.

a.      The requests for nominations shall be mailed to the secretary of each regional branch by the chairman of the Nominating committee at least two months before the scheduled regional meeting. The regional secretary shall remind the congregations to offer names for nomination which shall then be voted on at the regional conference.

b.      Candidates nominated need not be from within the region nominating them.

c.      Only one candidate for each office may be nominated by a region.

d.      Candidates shall be nominated in regions at their conference and chosen by a majority vote.

e.      Deadline for nominations shall be the last day of February in the year of the ILDA convention, and nominations shall be submitted to the chairman of the Nominating committee by the secretary of each regional branch.

f.        Nominations received after the deadline cannot be considered by the Committee but can be re-offered at the convention.

2.      The Nominating Committee shall obtain a biography and a photo of all candidates who agree to run for office and shall  publish them in the summer issue of The Deaf Lutheran (deadline May 1^st) before the ILDA convention.

 
Section C- Replacement

If for any reason the immediate past president is not available the Board of Directors shall elect another past president to serve as the chairman of the Nominating Committee.