Officers of the Board
Bill Walter, President
John Townend, President-Elect
Susan Hough, Past President
Peggy Hellweg, Secretary **
Mitch Withers, Treasurer **
Board of Directors
Annemarie Baltay (2023)
Susan Bilek (2023)
Margaret Boettcher (2021)
Xyoli Pérez-Campos (2021)
Heather DeShon (2022)
Doug Dreger (2021)
Hiroshi Kawase (2023)
Kuo-Fong Ma (2022)
Meghan S. Miller (2022)
Kate Scharer (2023)
Committees of the Board
Executive Committee
Bill Walter, President
Susan Hough, Past-President
Peggy Hellweg, Secretary
John Townend, President-Elect
Management Committee
Peggy Hellweg
Xyoli Pérez-Campos
Mitch Withers
Audit Committee
Kate Scharer (Chair)
Susan Bilek
Xyoli Pérez-Campos
Mitch Withers (ex officio)
Budget Committee
Mitch Withers
Peggy Hellweg (representing the Executive Committee)
Communications Committee
Susan Hough
Doug Dreger (ex officio)
Christine Goulet
Peggy Hellweg
Maurice Lamontagne
Julian Lozos
Dan McNamara
Beatrice Magnani
Zhigang Peng, SRL Editor (ex officio)
Jascha Polet
Thomas Pratt (ex officio)
Margarita Segou
Ethics Committee
Peter Shearer, Past President and Chair
Meghan Miller, Honors Committee Representative and Vice Chair
John Townend, Membership Committee Representative
Xyoli Pérez-Campos, Publications Committee Representative
Kate Scharer, Meetings Committee Representative
Andy Michael, Former Past President
Government Relations
Lisa Grant Ludwig (Chair)
John Anderson
Rick Aster
Heather DeShon
Peggy Hellweg
Keith Knudsen
Stuart Nishenko
Linda Rowan
Christa von Hillebrandt-Andrade
Bill Walter
Deborah Weiser
Mike West
Ray Willemann
Susan Hough, President-Elect (ex officio)
Peter Shearer, President (ex officio)
Honors Committee
Meghan Miller (Chair, 2020-2022)
Anne Meltzer (The Harry Fielding Reid Medal subcommittee chair, 2019-2021)
Keith Koper (Charles F. Richter Early Career Award subcommittee chair, 2020-2022)
Ruth Harris (The Frank Press Public Service Award subcommittee chair, 2020-2022)
John Townend
- The Harry Fielding Reid Medal Subcommittee
Jeanne Hardebeck (chair)
Barbara Romanowicz
Miaki Ishii
Art Frankel
Michael West - Charles F. Richter Early Career Award Subcommittee
David Shelley (chair)
Colleen Dalton
Huajian Yao
Beatrice Magnani - The Frank Press Public Service Award Subcommittee
Ruth Harris (chair)
Meredith Nettles
Charlotte Rowe
Ivan Wong
Michael Wysession - SSA Awards Encouragement Committee
Chuck Ammon (Chair, 2020-2022)
Rick Aster
Laurie Baise
Sue Beck
Roland Burgmann
Elizabeth Cochran - Bolt Medal, SSA liaisons:
Gail Atkinson
Ruth Harris
Investment Committee
Peter Shearer (Chair)
Doug Dreger
Jim Mori
Paul Passmore
Bill Walter
Ray Willemann
Mitch Withers (ex officio)
Meetings Committee
Zhigang Peng (Chair)
Annemarie Baltay
Susan Bilek
Leah Salditch
Kate Scharer
Max Schneider
Peter Shearer
John Townend
Jim Mori
Membership Committee
Susan Hough (Chair)
Sergio Barrientos
Jeff Bayless
Ruth Harris
James Kaklamanos
Andy Michael
Kenny Ryan
John Townend
Publications Committee
Doug Dreger (Chair)
Xyoli Pérez-Campos
Martin Chapman
Heather DeShon
Kawase Hiroshi
Susan Hough
Jessica Murray
Peter Shearer
John Townend
Bill Walter
Allison Bent (ex officio)
Thomas Pratt (ex officio)
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Task Force (August 2020)
Aaron Velasco (Chair)
Kasey Aderhold (IRIS liaison)
Richard Alfaro-Diaz
Wesley Brown
Mike Brudzinski
Fabia Terra
Margaret Fraiser (AGU liaison)
Monique Holt
Jim Mori
Gabriela Noriega (SCEC liaison)
Kate Scharer
Dennise Templeton
Sherilyn William-Stroud