The CRA Elections Committee has selected the following individuals to run for a seat on the CRA Board of Directors in 2010.

Directions are provided below for the submission of petition nominations, which are due on February 8, 2010. Election materials will be distributed to CRA members by February 12, 2010, with a deadline of March 5 for submitting completed ballots.

Academic Nominees (4 slots to fill):

Edward A. Fox
Professor
Department of Computer Science
Director, Digital Library Research Laboratory
Virginia Tech

Mary Jean Harrold (Incumbent)
Professor
College of Computing
Georgia Institute of Technology

Jeff Hollingsworth (Incumbent)
Professor
Department of Computer Science
University of Maryland

Sampath Kannan
Professor
Department of Computer and Information Science
University of Pennsylvania

Ming Lin
Distinguished Professor
Department of Computer Science
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Martha Pollack (Incumbent)
Dean and Professor
School of Information
Professor CS&E
University of Michigan

Fred Schneider (Incumbent)
Professor
Department of Computer Science
Cornell University

Eva Tardos
Professor and Chair
Department of Computer Science
Cornell University

Industry/Centers Nominations (2 slots to fill):

Ronald Brachman
VP Yahoo! Labs & Research Operations
Head, Yahoo! Academic Relations

Michele Covell
Senior Staff Research Scientist
Google, Inc.

Donald Ferguson
Executive VP, Distinguished Engineer, CTO
CA, Inc.

Laura Haas (Incumbent)
Director
IBM Almaden Research Center

OPTION FOR PETITION CANDIDATES

The CRA bylaws allow candidates to be nominated by petition. Petition nominations are due one month from the date the Election Committee's slate is announced (deadline will be February 8, 2010 this year).