Michigan 2019 Annual Report

2019 ANNUAL BOOK OF REPORTS
Report from the Committee on Bylaws was received. Voting on Bylaws was held on Saturday.
Evening events included the Candidate Forum that included Marylee Pakieser as a candidate for reelection
for Director at Large and the Midwest Region meeting. The ANA PAC Reception was also held
and was attended by MaryLee Pakieser and Tobi Lyon Moore.
Saturday, 6/22
Voting for various ANA positions took place Saturday morning. Ernest Grant, PhD, RN, FAAN, of the
North Carolina Nurses Association was elected as the association’s next president and is the first
male to lead ANA. His term, as well as the other newly elected Board of Directors At Large members,
will begin January 1, 2019. ANA’s Membership Assembly elected the following members to serve on
the 9-member board of directors: Vice President Susan Swart, EdD, MS, RN, CAE, of ANA- Illinois;
Treasurer Jennifer Mensik, PhD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN, of the Oregon Nurses Association; Director-at-
Large James Watson, DNP, RN, NEA-BC, of the Texas Nurses Association; Director-at-Large, Recent
Graduate Marcus Henderson, BSN, RN, of the Pennsylvania State Nurses Association.
Those continuing their terms on the ANA board in 2020 are: President Ernest Grant, PhD, RN, FAAN,
of the North Carolina Nurses Association; Secretary Stephanie Pierce, PhD, MN, RN, CNE, of the
Louisiana State Nurses Association; Director-at-Large Tonisha J. Melvin, DNP, CRRN, NP-C, of the
Georgia Nurses Association; Director-at-Large Varsha Singh, DNP, APN, RN, of the New Jersey State
Nurses Association; Director-at-Large, Staff Nurse Jennifer Gil, BSN, RN, of ANA Massachusetts.
Participants in the Member Assembly broke into smaller groups to discuss pertinent topics including:
revision of Nursing Scope and Standards of Practice, Healthy Nurse Healthy Nation, Occupational
Licensure Reform and Potential Implications for Nursing, ANCC Credentialing Program, and War
Stories and Worldly Wisdom.
Thank you for the opportunity to represent ANA-Michigan!
MaryLee Pakieser (ANA Director at Large), Carole Stacy (ANA-Michigan President), Julia Stocker Schneider (ANA-
Michigan President-Elect), Stacy Slater (ANA-Michigan Membership Assembly Representative), Linda Taft (ANA-
Michigan Immediate Past President), Adebusola Bakare (ANA-Michigan Member), Amy Brown (Office of Debbie
Stabenow), Staff Member from the Office of Senator Gary Peters, Representative Jack Bergman,
Representative John Moolenaar, and Tobi Moore (ANA-Michigan Executive Director)
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