FCAS Chosen SOA Leader

SCHAUMBURG, Ill.—W. James MacGinnitie has been elected president-elect of the Society of Actuaries (SOA) for 2000-2001. He is a Fellow of both the Casualty Actuarial Society and the Society of Actuaries. MacGinnitie has also served as the 1979-1980 president of the CAS and the 1988-1989 president of the American Academy of Actuaries.

MacGinnitie is the retired chief financial officer of CNA Financial, Chicago. He was formerly director of actuarial services at Ernst & Young, LLP and a managing principal of Tillinghast Towers-Perrin. MacGinnitie lives in Chicago.

He took office as president-elect on October 17 at the SOA annual meeting in Chicago. His term as SOA president will begin the following October.