American Nurses Association Elects National Leaders

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SILVER SPRING, MD – Today, the voting representatives of the American Nurses Association (ANA) Membership Assembly elected leaders to serve on the board of directors and nominations and elections committee. All terms of office begin on January 1, 2020. 

ANA’s Membership Assembly elected the following members to serve on the 9-member board of directors: Vice President Susan Swart, EdD, MS, RN, CAE, of ANA- Illinois; Treasurer Jennifer Mensik, PhD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN, of the Oregon Nurses Association; Director-at-Large James Watson, DNP, RN, NEA-BC, of the Texas Nurses Association; Director-at-Large, Recent Graduate Marcus Henderson, BSN, RN, of the Pennsylvania State Nurses Association.

Those continuing their terms on the ANA board in 2020 are: President Ernest Grant, PhD, RN, FAAN, of the North Carolina Nurses Association; Secretary Stephanie Pierce, PhD, MN, RN, CNE, of the Louisiana State Nurses Association; Director-at-Large Tonisha J. Melvin, DNP, CRRN, NP-C, of the Georgia Nurses Association;  Director-at-Large Varsha Singh, DNP, APN, RN, of the New Jersey State Nurses Association; Director-at-Large, Staff Nurse Jennifer Gil, BSN, RN, of ANA Massachusetts.

Elected to serve on the Nominations and Elections Committee are: Larlene Dunsmuir, DNP, FNP, ANP-C, of the Oregon Nurses Association; Laure Marino, DNP, APRN, FNP-BC, GNP-BC, of the West Virginia Nurses Association; Sara McCumber, DNP, APRN, CNP, CNS, of the Minnesota Organization of Registered Nurses; and Gayle Peterson, RN-BC (chair-elect), of ANA Massachusetts.