APA’s Board of Trustees

Traditionally, sitting at the Board of Trustees’ table at each meeting are voting and nonvoting members, as well as those specified in APA’s Operations Manual as “others in attendance.” A plan approved by the Board of Trustees at its meeting last month drops one of the vice-president positions and combines the secretary and treasurer positions.

    Voting Members of the Board

• Six officers of the Association

    President

    President-elect

    Two vice presidents

    Secretary

    Treasurer

• Three immediate past presidents

• Speaker of the Assembly

• Two trustees-at-large

• Early career psychiatrist trustee-at-large

• Member-in-training trustee

• Seven Area trustees

    Nonvoting Members

• Past presidents (only those elected prior to 2000), after serving a three-year term as voting members

• Member-in-Training trustee-elect

    Others in Attendance

• Speaker-elect of the Assembly

• Chair or representative from Committee of Black Psychiatrists *

• Chair or representative from Committee of Residents and Fellows *

• Representative from APA/GlaxoSmithKline Fellows *

• Representative from APA/CMHS Fellows *

• Representative from APA/Bristol-Myers Squibb Fellows *

*Selected/elected by their own groups.