LERA conducts annual elections for its officers and and members of the Executive Board. Terms begin and end in June, in conjunction with the LERA Annual Meetings. LERA accepts nominations from LERA members continuously; you can submit your nominations for candidates here: https://illinois.edu/fb/sec/4537637.
LERA Officers 2021-22 Paul F. Clark, President, Professor, Pennsylvania State University William E. Spriggs, President-elect, Chief Economist, AFL-CIO Wilma Liebman, Past-President, Former Chair, NLRB Andrew Weaver, Secretary-Treasurer (non-voting), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign William Canak, NCAC Chair (non-voting), Middle Tennessee State University (ret.) J. Ryan Lamare, Editor-in-Chief (non-voting), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Members of LERA Executive Board (3-year term) Peter Berg, (2021-2024), Michigan State University
Julie Farb (2022-2025), AFL-CIO Janet Gillman (2021-2024), Oregon Employment Relations Board Shannon Gleeson (2020-2023), Cornell University Quinton Herbert (2021-2024), City of Baltimore Tamara Lee (2020-2023), Rutgers University Kevin Legel (2021-2023), Ford Motor Co. Glenard Middleton, (2022-2025), AFSCME MD Council 67 Deborah Moore-Carter, (2022-2025), City of Baltimore Deborah Mueller (2021-2024), CSEA Local 1000 AFSCME Dionne Pohler, (2022-2025), University of Saskatchewan Javier Ramirez (2020-2023), Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service Christine Riordan, (2021-2024), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Sean Rogers (2022-2025), University of Rhode Island Christy Yoshitomi, (2022-2025), Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service
Regional Vice Presidents and Members of the LERA Executive Board (3-year term) Jim Pruitt (2017-24), Kaiser Permanente (West Region) Beverly Harrison (2020-2023), Arbitrator/Mediator (East Region) Robert Chiaravalli (2019-2025), Strategic Labor and HR LLC (Mid Region)
UCIRHRP Chair and Member of the LERA Executive Board (3-year term) Marc Weinstein (2021-2024), Florida International University
LERA Committee Chairs (appointed)
- Development Committee Co-Chairs – Jim Pruitt, Kaiser Permanente and Harry Katz, Cornell University
- Membership Committee Co-Chairs – David Lewin, UCLA and Tazewell Hurst, IAMAW
- Award Committee Co-Chairs – Janice Bellace, University of Pennsylvania and Rosemary Batt, Cornell University
- Nominating Committee Chair – Eileen Appelbaum, Center for Economic and Policy Research
- LERA Annual Meeting Program Committee Chair – William E. Spriggs, AFL-CIO
- [email protected] Meeting Program Committee Co-Chairs – Abigail Wozniak, Federal Reserve of Minneapolis, and Brad Hershbein, W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research
Past LERA Presidents
Wilma Liebman, 2021-22 Adrienne Eaton, 2020-21 Dennis Dabney, 2019-20 Kris Rondeau, 2018-19 Harry Katz, 2017-18 Janice Bellace, 2016-17 Bonnie Prouty Castrey, 2015-16 Martin Mulloy, 2014-15 Lisa Lynch, 2013-14 David Lewin, 2012-13 Gordon Pavy, 2011 Eileen Appelbaum, 2010 Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld, 2009 Anthony Oliver Jr., 2008 Eileen B. Hoffman, 2007 David Lipsky, 2006 Stephen Sleigh, 2005 Marlene K. Heyser, 2004 Paula Voos, 2003 John F. Burton Jr., 2002 Magdalena Jacobsen, 2001 Sheldon Friedman, 2000 Thomas A. Kochan, 1999 F. Donal O'Brien, 1998 Francine Blau, 1997 Hoyt T. Wheeler, 1996 Walter Gershenfeld, 1995 Lynn R. Williams, 1994 George Strauss, 1993 Ernest J. Savoie, 1992 James L. Stern, 1991 Robert B. McKersie, 1990 Joyce Miller, 1989 Phyllis A. Wallace, 1988 Michael H. Moskow, 1987 Lloyd Ulman, 1986 Everett Kassalow, 1985 Wayne L. Horvitz, 1984 Jack Stieber, 1983 Milton Derber, 1982 Rudolph A. Oswald, 1981 Jack Barbash, 1980 Jerome M. Rosow, 1979 Charles C. Killingsworth, 1978 F. Ray Marshall, 1977 Irving Bernstein, 1976 Nat Goldfinger, 1974 Douglas H. Soutar, 1973 Benjamin Aaron, 1972 Georg Hildebrand, 1971 Douglass V. Brown, 1970 Frederick Harbison, 1969 George Shultz, 1968 Neil W. Chamberlain, 1967 Arthur Ross, 1966 Edwin Young, 1965 Solomon Barkin, 1964 William F. Whyte, 1963 Charles Myers, 1962 John Dunlop, 1960
Editors-in-Chief
Ryan Lamare, University of Illinois, 2020− Ariel Avgar, University of Illinois, 2015−2019 Françoise Carré and Christian Weller, University of Massachusetts Boston. 2010-2014 Adrienne E. Eaton, Rutgers University, 2003−2009 Paula B. Voos, Rutgers University, 1995−2002 John F. Burton, Jr., Rutgers University, 1990−1994 Barbara Dennis, University of Wisconsin, 1977−1989 Barbara Dennis and James Stern, University of Wisconsin, 1974−1977 Gerald G. Somers, University of Wisconsin, 1957−1974 L. Reed Tripp, University of Wisconsin, 1951−1956 Milton Derber, University of Illinois, 1948−1950
Secretary-Treasurers
Andrew Weaver, University of Illinois, 2020− Ryan Lamare, University of Illinois, 2018-2019 Craig Olsen, University of Illinois, 2015−2017 Peter Feuille, University of Illinois, 2000−2014 David R. Zimmerman, University of Wisconsin, 1977−2000 Richard U. Miller, University of Wisconsin, 1973−1977 James L. Stern, University of Wisconsin, 1968−1969 David B. Johnson, University of Wisconsin, 1963−1972 Edwin Young, University of Wisconsin, 1954−1962 Robben W. Fleming, University of Wisconsin, 1951−1953 William H. McPherson, University of Wisconsin, 1948−1950
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