Cast Your Ballot

This spring, alumni can vote for a new group of Harvard Overseers and elected directors for the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) board.

Ballots should arrive in the mail by April 15 and must be received back in Cambridge by noon on June 3 to be counted. Results of the election will be announced at the HAA's annual meeting on June 9, on the afternoon of Commencement day. All holders of Harvard degrees, except Corporation members and officers of instruction and government, are entitled to vote for Overseer candidates. The election for HAA directors is open to all alumni.

 

For Overseer (six-year term, five to be elected):

Mitchell L. Adams '66, M.B.A. '69. Executive director, Massachusetts Technology Collaborative, Dedham, Mass.

Enrique Hernandez Jr. '77, J.D. '80. Chairman, president, and CEO, Inter-Con Security Systems Inc., Pasadena, Calif.

Gerald R. Jordan Jr. '61, M.B.A. '67. Investment adviser, president, Hellman, Jordan Management Co. Inc., Boston.

Peter R. MacLeish, Ph.D. '77. Professor and chairman, department of anatomy and neurobiology; director, Neuroscience Institute, Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta.

Anne Dhu McLucas, Ph.D. '75. Professor of music, chair of music history and ethnomusicology, University of Oregon, Eugene, Ore.

Lisbet Rausing, Ph.D. '93. Senior research fellow, Imperial College, London.

Susan S. Wallach '68, J.D. '71. Special counsel, Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP, New York City.

Seth P. Waxman '73. Partner, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr, Washington, D.C.



 

For HAA Director: (three-year term, six to be elected):

Rocky Delgadillo '82. Los Angeles City Attorney, Los Angeles.

Jennifer Flinton Diener '67, M.B.A. '72. Community volunteer, former senior vice president and member of the executive committee, American Medical International, Santa Monica, Calif.

Katharine Appleton Downes '89. Assistant professor of pathology, Case Western Reserve; attending physician, University Hospitals of Cleveland, Cleveland.

Charis Menschel Drant '97. Associate at Piper Rudnick, LLP, Washington, D.C.

Christopher Gabrieli '81. Chairman, Massachusetts 2020, Boston.

Keith A. James '79, J.D. '82. Shareholder, Shutts & Bowen, LLP, West Palm Beach, Fla.

Sarah Elizabeth Lewis '01. Curatorial assistant, Museum of Modern Art, New York City.

Janet A. Moy '75. Dermatologist; assistant clinical professor, New York University School of Medicine, New York City.

Brooks Newmark '80, M.B.A. '84. Senior partner, Apollo Management LP, London.


The HAA nominating committee proposes Overseer and elected director candidates each year. The committee's 13 voting members include three current or former Overseers and 10 other alumni chosen by the HAA Executive Committee. Overseer and HAA elected-director candidates may also be nominated by means of petitions signed by a prescribed number of eligible degree holders and filed by a set date early in the year.

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