Members of the Council of Logistics Management elected officers for 2002 during the annual business meeting held at the Kansas City Convention Center in Kansas City, Mo., on Oct. 3, 2001. The group's first vice president, Joel Sutherland, senior vice president of Transplace, automatically became president under the council's rules. Sutherland takes over for John Thomas Mentzer, professor of logistics at the University of Tennessee.

Officers elected to serve on the 2002 Executive Committee include the following:

• First vice president: Thomas W. Speh, professor of distribution, Miami University of Ohio;
• Second vice president: Elijah Ray, senior vice president, customer solutions, Standard Corporation Integrated Logistics;
• Secretary and treasurer: Mark E. Richards, vice president, Associated Warehouses Inc.

Other members of the Executive Committee appointed by Sutherland are:

• General conference chairperson: Mary-Lou Quinto, head of existing product sourcing, GlaxoSmithKline;
• Planning chairperson: Thomas L. Freese, principal, Freese & Associates Inc.;
• Roundtable chairperson: Michael J. DelBovo, vice president of marketing and business development, Saddle Creek Corp.;
• Professional development chairperson: Edward G. Huller, vice president, global supply chain, Borden Chemical Inc.;
• Education strategies chairperson: Rick D. Blasgen, vice president, supply chain, Nabisco Inc.;
• Research strategies chairperson: Frances Gaither Tucker, chair of the marketing department, Crouse-Hinds School of Management, Syracuse University;
• Research development chairperson: Greg Chalkley, manager of logistics, Texas Instruments Inc.;
• Continuing projects: Kate Vitasek, vice president and general manager of global accounts, Modus Media International; and
• Executive vice president: Maria A. McIntyre, Council of Logistics Management.