Candidates for ANA office took part in a public forum at the National Money Show in Orlando, Florida earlier this month. Barbara Gregory, editor of the ANA magazine The Numismatist, moderated the event and asked the candidates questions that were submitted by many of the industry’s leading figures and experts. On Tuesday, March 28, the ANA published the full program on its YouTube channel.
Look for several questions posed by CoinWeek editor Charles Morgan, Numismatic News editor Dave Harper, and past ANA president Q. David Bowers.
2017 QUALIFIED NOMINEES AND CANDIDATES
President
- Gary Adkins
- Mike Ellis
Vice President
- Don Kagin
Governor
- Adam J. Crum
- Col. Steven Ellsworth (ret.)
- Mitch Ernst
- Brian Hendelson
- John W. Highfill
- Greg Lyon
- Paul Montgomery
- Ralph W. Ross
- Thomas J. Uram
About the ANA Elections
The American Numismatic Association is a Congressionally-chartered nonprofit, educational organization that is governed by a nine-member Board. The Board consists of a president, a vice president, and seven at-large governors.
With the terms of all nine of these positions set to expire this year, the ANA will hold an election to install its next board through an election that is open to to all ANA members, who have been members of of the Association for at least one year and are 13 years of age or older as of March 31 of the election year.
Candidates for ANA officer are nominated by ANA members with voting privileges. The deadline to file for office for this year’s election was March 1, 2017.
The term of office is two years.
Successful candidates will be take their positions on the ANA Board at the ANA’s 126th Anniversary Convention in Denver, CO, August 4, 2017
