Nomination and Election Process for UUSJ Board Trustees, the FY 2024-25 Cohort

1. Trustee Application (v.2024)
2. Call for Applicants
3. Current Board Members

UUSJ is searching for candidates to join the Board as of July 1, 2024. Members of the UUSJ Board of Trustees may serve up to two terms of three years each before leaving the Board for two years. The terms of the eleven-member Board are staggered to allow for continuity.

• At the annual meeting in June 2024, Trustees will be elected for three-year terms to replace the Trustees whose terms expire this June. Terms would be July 1, 2024 to June 30, 2027
• Candidates may include incumbent Trustees willing to run again
• Each year, the UUSJ Board elects officers for one-year terms at a special Board of Trustees meeting shortly after the prior Board’s annual meeting

Criteria:

The UUSJ Nominating Committee solicits applications for nomination and election to the Board of Trustees from any current or prospective individual members of UUSJ.

• Nominees need not be current members of UUSJ but are expected to join if elected (dues are modest)
• The Nominating Committee and Board are interested in persons reflecting the diversity of the UU justice-making experience
• The Board has a strong interest in candidates with experience in organizational change, a passion for social justice advocacy, engagement, education and/or witnessing, knowledge of the justice-making environment, particularly in a faith-based context, and which would reflect the race, gender, age, and geographic diversity of UU justice-making and/or are representative of impacted communities.

Not every candidate will or must meet all these criteria, but the Nominating Committee hopes to present a slate of candidates who meet many of these criteria. Anyone interested in serving on the UUSJ Board should contact Rev. Latifah Griffin, Nominating Committee Chair, nomination@uusj.org, as soon as possible for application details.

• Because the Nominating Committee must submit its recommended slate of nominees to the Board during June 2024, applications received before May 1, 2024 will have the best opportunity for consideration by the Committee
• The Committee does not expect to be able to consider any nomination applications received by the Committee after May 23
• Alternatively, persons interested in being nominated as Trustees may do so by presenting a petition to UUSJ signed by 10 percent of the individual members of UUSJ as shown on the membership rolls as of January 1, 2024. Nominating petitions are due no later than May 23, 2024. Names of individual UUSJ members as of Jan. 1, 2024, their contact information, and the details of requirements for petitions (e.g., form of signatures) may be obtained from the Executive Director, Pablo DeJesus, pdejesus@uusj.org, after articulating an express interest to run for the UUSJ Board by petition

Requirements:

The essential requirements of applications made to the Nominating Committee or made by petition do not differ. Both types of applicants will be asked to provide:

1. A brief biography
2. A statement of interest to join the Board
3. An articulation of any interest in being elected an Officer by the new Board
4. A photo as part of the application to become a Trustee (optional)

The Nominating Committee and the Board will ensure that all nominees, whether nominated by the Committee or by petition, are presented to the Board for consideration and potential election fairly and equitably. The Nominating Committee anticipates that the biographies, statements of interest, and any photos provided by all candidates (whether nominated by the Committee or by petition) will be made available to the Board ten days before the annual meeting.