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AFA officers
President - Rich Edwards - Baylor University richard_edwards@baylor.edu
Vice President - Scott Harris - Univ. of Kansas sharris@ku.edu
Immediate Past President - Dan Cronn-Mills - Minnesota State University daniel.cronn-mills@mnsu.edu
Vice President for High School Affairs - Dan Lingel - Plano, Texas dlingel@jesuitcp.org
Two-Year College Representative - M’Liss Hindman - Tyler Jr. College mhin@tjc.edu
Recording ecretary - Katie Lavelle - Univ. of Northern Iowa katherine.lavelle@uni.edu
Executive Secretary - James W. Pratt - University of Wisconsin-River Falls James.W.Pratt@uwrf.edu
Webmaster - Allan Louden - Wake Forest University louden@wfu.edu
Co-Editors - Argumentation & Advocacy - Catherine H. Palczewski and John Fritch - University
of Northern Iowa Catherine.Palczewski@uni.edu john.fritch@uni.edu
Nominating Committee
David Cheshier - Georgia State Univ. Becky Opsata - California State Univ. Northridge
Ed Panetta - Univ. of Georgia (Chair)
Larry Schnoor - Mankato, Minnesota
Ben Voth - Southern Methodist Univ.
NDT Committee:
Tim O'Donnell, Univ of Mary Washington, todonnel@mwc.edu Chair
Gordon Stables, University of Southern California, District 1 stables@usc.edu ">stables@usc.edu
Omar Gruvara, Weber State Univ., District II Oguevara@Weber.edu
Eric Morris, Missouri State University, District III ericmorris@missouristate.edu
David Cram Helwich, University of Minnesota, District IV, helwich@macalester.edu
Will Repko, Michigan State University, District V repkowil@msu.edu
Michael Hester, University of West Georgia, District VI, mhester@westga.edu
Adrienne Broverol, Mary Washingon, , District VII, abrovero@umw.edu
Dallas Perkins, Harvard University, District VIII dperkins@fas.harvard.edu
Matt Stannard, University of Wyoming, District IX, stannardmatt@HOTMAIL.COM
Ron Stevenson, Wayne State University, AFA Central, waynedebate@hotmail.com
Ed Lee, Emory University, AFA South, bamadebate@yahoo.com
Sarah Partlow Lefevre, Idaho State University, AFA West, partsara@isu.edu
AFA Eastern, TBA Jim Hanson, Whitman College, Ranking Sec. hansonjb@whitman.edu
National Debate Tournament Board of Trustees
Allan Louden, Wake Forest University, Chair (term expires 2012) - louden@wfu.edu
Sherry Hall, Harvard University (term expires 2013) - shahall@comcast.net
Greg Rosenbaum, Palisades Associates - greg@palisadesassociates.com (term expires 2014)
Daniel Wiese Leek, Grand Vally State University - (term expires 2015) leekd@gvsu.edu
Melissa Wake, Emory University (term expires 2016) - mwade@emory.edu
National Individual Events Tournament Board of Trustees
Leah White, Minnesota State University Mankato (term expires 2014) - leah.white@mnsu.edu
Joann Edwards, Univ. of Mississippi (term expires 2013) jedwards@olemiss.edu
Aaron Duncan, Univ. of Nebraska-Lincoln (term expires 2014) aduncan3@unlnotes.unl.edu
Dave Gaer, Laramie County Community College (term expries 2015) - dgaer@lccc.wy.edu
Lee Mayfield, James Madison University (term expires 2016) - mayfiecl@jmu.edu
AFA-NIET National Committee
- Chair - Peter Pober - George Mason University - ppober@gmu.edu
- Chair Emeritius: Frank Thompson, Univ. of Alabama, fthompson@ua.edu
- Vice Chair - Lee Mayfield - James Madison University - mayfiecl@jmu.edu
- Secretary - Karen Morris, UW-Eau Claire, morriskr@uwec.edu
- Tournament Director - Larry Schnoor - Minnesota State University Mankato - lschnoor@hickorytech.net
- Webmaster - David Worth, Rice Univ. dworth@rice.edu
District Chairs
- District 1 -Martin Bates, Univ of the Pacific, mbates@pacific.edu
- District 2 - Mark Porrovecchio, Oregon State Univ. mark.porrovecchio@oregonstate.edu
- District 3 - Craig Brown, Kansas State Univ. - craigb@ksu.edu
- District 4 - Susan Collie - University of Wisconsin-Stout - colliesu@uwstout.edu
- District 5 - Richard Paine - North Central College - repaine@noctrl.edu
- District 6 - Hillary Hoover - Clemson Univ. - hhoover@clemson.edu
- District 7 - Ken Young - James Madison University - young2kw@jmu.edu
- District 9 - nicholas Butler, Arizona State Univ. - nicholas.butler@asu.edu
- District 9 - Co-Chair William Igbokwe, Univ of Texas-Austin - williamgbokew9@gmail.com
- Vice Chair - Mary Trejo, University of Texas at El Paso - mtrejo@utep.edu
Community College Representative
- M'Liss Hinman, Tyler Junior College, TX, mhin@tjc.edu
Regional Representatives (Term ends May of the year noted)
- Southern Rep - Kellie Roberts - University of Florida (2009) - robertsk@ufl.edu
- Eastern Rep - Daniel Leyes - Brookdale Community College (2009) -dleyes@brookdalecc.edu
- Central Rep - Joel Hefling, South Dakota State Univ. - Joel.hefling@sdsu.edu
- Western Rep - David Gaer, Laramie County Community College (2010) - dgaer@lccc.wy.edu
Student Representatives
- Ryan Casman, Illinois State Univ. , rcashma@ilstu.edu