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Governance

Luis Echegoyen is 2019 ACS President-Elect

Four other board director positions also filled

by Linda Wang
November 2, 2018

Photo of Luis A. Echegoyen.
Credit: Courtesy of Luis A. Echegoyen
Luis A. Echegoyen

Luis A. Echegoyen, Robert A. Welch Professor of Chemistry at the University of Texas, El Paso, has been elected the 2019 American Chemical Society president-elect by members of ACS. Echegoyen will serve as president of the society in 2020 and immediate past-president in 2021; he will also serve on the board of directors during those years.

With 7,996 votes, Echegoyen won the race against Thomas R. Gilbert, an associate professor of chemistry and chemical biology at Northeastern University, who received 6,037 votes. ACS, which publishes C&EN, also elected or reelected four other board directors.

“This will be a great opportunity for me to do something for ACS and all of its members,” Echegoyen says. “I want to have an impact on as many people in my professional society as I can.”

As president-elect next year, he plans to meet with ACS members, from younger chemists to entrepreneurs, and “listen to what they have to say.” As president, he plans to focus on several core areas, including strengthening interactions between ACS and other scientific societies around the world; working with the Congressional Chemistry Caucus to encourage legislators to increase funding for chemistry and chemical engineering; fostering interactions between industry and academia; and developing solutions to improve the educational experience in chemistry and chemical engineering.

In other election news, Katherine L. Lee, an associate research fellow in inflammation and immunology medicinal chemistry at Pfizer, was elected director of District I, defeating incumbent Laura E. Pence, a professor of chemistry at the University of Hartford.

Photo of Katherine L. Lee.
Credit: Jennifer Palmer
Katherine L. Lee
Photo of John E. Adams.
Credit: Peter Cutts Photography
John Adams

And John E. Adams, Curators’ Distinguished Teaching Professor Emeritus at the University of Missouri was re-elected director of District V, winning over Joseph A. Heppert, vice president for research at Texas Tech University.

Lee H. Latimer, a consultant in drug development at LHLatimer Consulting; and Ingrid Montes, an assistant dean of graduate studies and research at the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras, were re-elected director-at-large. They won over Frank D. Blum, the Harrison I. Bartlett Chair and Regents’ Professor of Chemistry at Oklahoma State University, and Angela W. Peters, a vice provost for academic programs and professor of chemistry at Claflin University.

Photo of Lee Latimer.
Credit: Dylan Studios
Lee Latimer
Photo of Ingrid Montes.
Credit: Peter Cutts Photography
Ingrid Montes

Some 14,000 valid votes were cast for President-Elect. Voter participation for president-elect was nearly 10% of all eligible voters.

Additional information about the winners can be found in the candidates’ statements.

RESULTS

Voting breakdown for fall 2018 ACS elections.

PRESIDENT-ELECT, 2019 TOTAL VOTES
Luis A. Echegoyen 7,996
Thomas R. Gilbert 6,037
DIRECTOR-AT-LARGE, 2019-2021 ROUND 1a ROUND 2b ROUND 3
Frank D. Blum 100 115
Lee H. Latimer 106 115 169
Ingrid Montes 122 139 193
Angela W. Peters 41
DICTRICT I DIRECTOR, 2019-2021
Katherine L. Lee 1,132
Laura E. Pence 743
DICTRICT V DIRECTOR, 2019-2021b
John E. Adams 1,147
Joseph A. Heppert 846

President-Elect, 2019: Luis A. Echegoyen

Total Votes: 7,996

President-Elect, 2019: Thomas R. Gilbert

Total Votes: 6,037

Director, District I, 2019-2021: Katherine L. Lee

Total Votes: 1,132

Director, District I, 2019-2021: Laura E. Pence

Total Votes: 743

Director, District V, 2019-2021: Joseph A. Heppert

Total Votes: 846

Director, District V, 2019-2021: John E. Adams

Total Votes: 1,147

Director-at-Large, 2019-2021: Frank D. Blum

Round 1a: 100

Round 2b: 115

Director-at-Large, 2019-2021: Lee H. Latimer

Round 1a: 106

Round 2b: 115

Round 3: 169

Director-at-Large, 2019-2021: Ingrid Montes

Round 1a: 122

Round 2b: 139

Round 3: 193

Director-at-Large, 2019-2021: Angela W. Peters

Round 1a: 41

a. No candidate attained a majority in Round 1. Following the procedures for preferential voting approved by the ACS Council, second preference votes of the candidate receiving the fewest first preference votes were distributed to the remaining candidates in the second round.
b. Following the procedures for preferential voting approved by the ACS Council, in the event of a tie for last place in the second or succeeding rounds, the candidate with the lowest first round preference votes is eliminated. The eliminated candidate's second preference votes are redistributed in the next round.

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