Offices to be Filled by Election (link to pictures & bios. of nominees)

• General Officers
• Other Officers
• Standing Committee
• Executive Board
• Trustees, Episcopal Church Corporation
• Trustees, TMI - The Episcopal School of Texas
• Trustees, University of the South
• Deputies and Alternate Deputies to General Convention
• Deputies and Alternate Deputies to Synod of the Province of the Southwest (Province VII)
   
• Alpha Listing of Nominees with Positions Sought
  (excluding General & Other Officers)

General Information

The Nominating Committee for the 2005 Council of the Diocese of West Texas, appointed by the Bishop, is as follows:

In preparation for the 101st Annual Diocesan Council, to be held on South Padre Island February 17-19, 2005, the diocesan Nominating Committee is seeking names of possible nominees.  On the attached web pages (see links above) are the offices to be filed with job descriptions along with the Episcopal Church Canons and Diocesan canons that apply.  A full copy of the Constitutions and Canons of the Episcopal Diocese of West Texas is available at the Bishop Jones Center or on the diocesan website:  www.episcopal-dwtx.org.

CANON 1, Section 11 - The Nominating Committee shall review all names of recommended nominees in selecting its slate of nominees to be submitted to the Council.

To recommend a communicant to the committee, complete a "Biographical Data" form and return it along with a digital photograph (.jpg format) to helen.schnelzer@dwtx.org or mail to PO Box 6885, San Antonio, TX  78209.  The chair of the Nominating Committee, The Rev. Rick Dunham may be contacted through St. Christopher's, Bandera, 830/763-4387, or e-mail to fatherdunham@indian-creek.net.  Deadline to submit nominations is October 15, 2004.

All persons recommended must be 18 years of age or older
and communicants within the convocation from which they are being nominated.

Nomination/Biographical Data Forms

• PDF Printable Version of Nomination Form-2005
• "Electronic Nomination Form - 2005" - Nomination form for offices to be filled by election at Council.

Constitution and Canons of the Diocese of West Texas, Canon 1 Section 11

(a) A Diocesan Nominating Committee and the Chair thereof shall be elected annually by the Diocesan Executive Board at its regular spring meeting, on nomination by the Bishop.

(b) The membership of the Nominating Committee shall consist of one representative of each convocation and two members of the previous year's Nominating Committee. In the odd numbered years Northern, Eastern and Valley Convocations shall be represented by Lay members, while the Central, Northeastern, Southern and Western Convocations shall be represented by clergy. In even numbered years the distribution of membership between clergy and laity as to convocations shall be the reverse.

(c) The Secretary of the Executive Board shall, immediately after the board's action, apprise the committee members of their election, giving the name and address of each committee member, and designating the elected chair. A copy of this Section 11 of Canon1, in toto, shall be included in each such letter of notification, together with a list of the offices to be filled by election at the forthcoming Council, and an analysis of the work involved in each such office.

(d) It shall be the duty of the nominating committee chair before October 1 of the current year to write to the minister and vestry or Bishop's Committee of each congregation in the Diocese, apprising them of the offices to be filled by election at the Council, with an analysis of the work involved in each such office, and apprising them of their privilege to recommend, for consideration by the Diocesan Nominating Committee, the names of men and women communicants, eighteen years of age or over, within such convocation whom they consider qualified to serve in these offices.

(e) It shall be the duty of the nominating committee chair to determine the place and time for a meeting of the committee, to be held prior to November 15, and to notify the committee members thereof. At the meeting of the Nominating Committee, so assembled, the chair shall report all such proper nominee recommendations, as he/she shall have received. The names of such recommended nominees shall be included among those under consideration by the committee, in selecting its slate of nominees to be submitted to the Council. The Committee shall in no event nominate more than three persons for any one position to be filled, except that the Committee shall nominate only one person for any one of the Officers of the Diocese. The Committee shall be free to initiate the nomination of any person without prior recommendation.

(f) The report of the Diocesan Nominating Committee shall include a brief identification of each person nominated and shall be submitted to the Bishop in time for inclusion in the packet of reports to the Council printed prior to the convening of the Council.

(g) The report of the Nominating Committee shall not preclude nominations from the floor at Council.