The Nominating Committee helps identify individuals to serve as officers of the Meeting and on the Meeting’s committees and in the various individual positions needed. Since the Business Meeting ultimately makes the final appointments and all such decisions must meet with a unified sense of the Meeting, the nominating committee also vets the nominations to help ensure there will be no objections.

The Nominating Committee presents an annual slate of candidates for our Meeting officers and committee positions to Meeting for Business each November, and for final approval, in December. Throughout August, September and October, the committee will speak to each member and attender of the Meeting to evaluate where they are in their spiritual journey and how their experience in the Meeting is going. What do they appreciate? What would make their experience better? What leadings and gifts are emerging for them? How does their life in the Meeting feed that?

In this process of one-on-one conversations the Nominating Committee seeks people willing to serve as officers of the Meeting and/or as a member of a committee. All but Nominating Committee Membership is for a three-year term renewable for one additional three- year term. After two terms, all committee members must be off the committee for one year before serving again. Exceptions can be made after two consecutive terms, in consultation with the Committee Clerk. The Committee Clerk will consult with committee members. Committee Clerks are selected by the committee members at the start of each new year.