During its recent 67th annual meeting and seminar in Las Vegas,Nev. from Oct. 22 to 25, the CPCU Society announced new boardmembers. The following elections are effective immediately:

CPCU Society President and Chairman: SteveMcElhiney, CPCU, MBA, ARe, AIAF, ispresident of EWI Risk Services, Inc., a reinsurance intermediarybased in Dallas and a subsidiary of NL Industries. He is alsopresident of Tall Pines Insurance Company of Vermont.

CPCU Society President-Elect: DavidMedvidofsky, CPCU, CIC, ARM, AIAF, AAI, is vice president and headof the audit unit of The Main Street America Group, aJacksonville-based super regional insurer in Florida. He will serveas the Society's 2012-2013 president and chairman.

CPCU Society Vice President: Cynthia A.Baroway, CPCU, M.Ed., AIC, is a faculty member inthe Risk Management and Insurance Program at the University ofColorado-Denver School of Business, currently developing RMI'scurriculum and marketing its classes.

CPCU Society Secretary: Nancy D. Adams, CPCU,J.D., is a partner practicing in the litigationsection of Mintz Levin, in its Boston office. She is thefirst incumbent of the newly separated secretary's office, whichformerly was merged with the treasurer's position.

Continuing his service on the Board is CPCU SocietyTreasurer Brian P. Savko, CPCU, CLU,ChFC, a team manager in State Farm's Murfreesboro,Tenn. Office, who fills this newly independent position. He servedas the Society's 2008-2009, 2009-2010 and 2010-2011Secretary-Treasurer. He has been a member of the Society's Budgetand Finance Committee since 1999, and has served as president, vicepresident and secretary of its Mid-Tennessee Chapter.

Also continuing his services on the board is Warren L. Farrar,CPCU, CLU, ChFC, the Society's immediate pastpresident. Farrar, who served as the Society's 2010-2011 presidentand chairman, is assistant vice president–claims for State Farm. Hehas served on the Society's board as an interest group governor andon its Audit Committee, Executive Committee and Governance OverviewBoard Working Group. He joined the Society's Loss ControlInterest Group Committee in 1992 and served as its chairman from1996 to1998.

List of Directors

The following were elected as directors and will servethree-year terms:

James L. Hanson, CPCU, is assistant vicepresident of member experience-Financial Foundations at USAA'sPhoenix, Ariz. campus.

Robert A. Mansfield, CPCU, is senior vice president of HUBInternational New England in Lexington, Mass. He has been in theinsurance industry since 1977 and has been with HUB for more than30 years.

Donna M. Wright, CPCU, MBA, AU, is assistant vice president ofproduct management for Germania Insurance Group in Brenham, Texas.She has been with Germania since 2006. Wright is a past presidentof the CPCU Society Houston Chapter and a past member of theSociety's Nominating Sub-Committee.

Also, Mary R. Hennessy, FCAS, is serving a oneyear term from 2011 to 2012 as Society At-LargeDirector by appointment of Society President and ChairmanMcElhiney.

The CPCU Society is acommunity of credentialed insurance professionals who promoteexcellence through ethical behavior and continuing education. Itsmore than 25,,000 members hold the Chartered Property CasualtyUnderwriter (CPCU) designation, which requires passing eightrigorous undergraduate- and graduate- level examinations, meetingexperience requirements, and agreeing to be bound by a strict codeof professional ethics. The CPCU designation is conferred by TheInstitutes.