Members of the Student Bar Association:
Elections for the 2019-2020 Student Bar Association
Leadership will begin soon! As students at Akron Law you are automatically
members of the Student Bar Association (SBA). Therefore, you are all
responsible for electing who will serve on the executive board for SBA and,
also, who you would like to represent your respective class. This means that
ALL students may nominate and vote for the executive board positions; however,
students may only nominate and vote for their own class representatives (i.e.,
a 1L may only vote for 1L class representatives, not any other class). Failure
to follow this rule is an honor code violation!
The executive board is composed of the president, vice-president,
treasurer, and secretary. To be eligible to run for an executive board
position you MUST have completed two full semesters of law school prior to the
time you will take office (not including the summer semester). Further, each
class (1L, 2L, 3L) will elect 4 class representatives. The person who receives
the most votes will be appointed the class president. Please note,
elections for part-time and spring-start representatives will be held in the
spring.
SBA elections are a three-step process:
First, all those who hope to be nominated for an
executive board or class representative position
on SBA must get at least two nominations (you
are able to nominate yourself). NOMINATIONS
ARE OPEN NOW and will close
on Thursday, April 18th at 6 p.m. You may only nominate representatives from your representative class.
However, all classes can nominate qualified individuals for the executive board
positions. Please visit the appropriate link below to place your
nominations.
Second, each individual who receives at least
two nominations for a position will receive an email asking if they
would like to accept their nomination and run for the position.
If nominated for both a class representative and executive board position,
you may choose to run for both. That way, if you do not win the executive
board position, you remain in the running as a class representative. However,
you may NOT run for two executive board positions. If nominated for
more than one executive board position, you will have to choose which one to
accept. A student must accept his or her nomination for a position via
email or the student will not be on the ballot.
Third, all nominees for President will be invited to
participate in an open forum with your classmates on Monday, April 22nd
at 12:15 p.m. and 5:30 p.m. in room
180 to briefly discuss why you would like the position and answer any
questions from your classmates. The final poll with all of the
candidates that have accepted their nominations will open on Monday,
April 22nd. The final poll will close on Thursday, April 25th
at 6 p.m. Each student may only vote for a position once. Voting more
than once is an honor code violation!
The person with the most votes for each position
will win. Each elected individual will receive an email
notification and their names and position will be displayed on
the announcement blog. The newly elected executive board will be contacted by
the current executive board that coming week regarding leadership
succession.
Below are the current executive board members and their
emails. Please feel free to reach out to any of us if you would like to
learn more about what our position entails:
President: Ashlee James – asm116@zips.uakron.edu
Vice President: Sarah Blank – skb73@zips.uakron.edu
Treasurer: Cole Blakeley – cb209@zips.akron.edu
Secretary: Kale Anderson – kda39@zips.uakron.edu
Best,
Sarah Blank
SBA Vice-President
