Miller Wins President-Elect; Ross to Become President

ARLINGTON, Va.—Mary Frances Miller won her bid to become CAS president-elect for 2003 with 55 percent of the vote. Sholom Feldblum finished with 45 percent of the votes. The election was the second CAS competitive election in recent years.

Miller will become president-elect at the close of the 2002 CAS Annual Meeting in Boston this month. Gail M. Ross will succeed Robert F. Conger as CAS president.

Balloting for the 2002 CAS election closed on September 23, 2002, and CAS tellers verified the election results. Nearly half of CAS Fellows (49.1%) cast votes in the 2002 elections, a total of 1,158. This compares to 58.2 percent of the Fellows voting in the 2001 election and 39.7 percent of the Fellows voting in the 2000 election.

Members of the CAS Nominating Committee for the 2002 CAS elections are Chairperson Steven G. Lehmann, Robert A. Anker, Alice H. Gannon, Patrick J. Grannan, Leon R. Gottlieb, Steven A. Kelner, and Mavis A. Walters.

A CAS Fellow since 1988, Miller is a senior partner with Select Actuarial Services, a risk management actuarial consulting firm in Nashville, TN. This month Miller completes her term on the CAS Executive Council as vice president-admissions. Miller's CAS activities have focused heavily on education. She served in various capacities throughout the late 1980's and the 1990's on Examinations and Education Policy Committees. She currently chairs the Future Education Task Force and is a member of the Examinations and International Actuarial Association Liaison Committees. Other committee involvements include liaison to the Enterprise Risk Management Advisory and the SOA Education & Examination Management Committees, and chair of the Task Force on Mutual Recognition.

CAS Fellows also elected new CAS Board of Directors. They are Gary R. Josephson, David J. Oakden, Patricia A. Teufel, and Oakley E. Van Slyke. The new directors will serve three-year terms commencing at the close of the 2002 Annual Meeting. They succeed Amy S. Bouska, Stephen P. D'Arcy, Frederick O. Kist, and Susan Witcraft. As the most recent past president, Conger will serve as chairperson for the CAS Board of Directors during 2003.