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The Nominating Committee for the 2002 USENIX Board Election was Eric Allman, Andrew Hume (Chair), John Kohl, and Rob Kolstad. The purpose of the Nominating Committee is to ensure a slate of qualified candidates for the USENIX Board election. This report simply describes how we chose the slate of nominees and the list of nominees itself. Unlike previous years, we did not perform a detailed evaluation of the current board, nor are we providing any commentary on the nominees themselves.

Choosing the nominees is a tension between several, sometimes conflicting, guidelines. These include continuity between old and new boards, the need for the treasurer to be experienced in financial matters, and for the nominees' backgrounds to span several key constituencies within USENIX; for 2002, we took these to be researchers, academics, system administrators, and the fields of security and Freenix.

The nominees are

President:		Marshall Kirk McKusick, Author and Consultant
Vice-President:		Mike Jones, Microsoft Research
Treasurer:		Lois Bennett, Harvard University
Secretary:		Peter Honeyman, CITI, University of Michigan
Directors (4 positions):		Clem Cole, Paceline Systems Tina Darmohray, Stanford University John Gilmore Darrell Long, Univ. of California, Santa Cruz Adam Moskowitz, Menlo Computing Avi Rubin, AT&T Labs - Research Ted Ts'o, IBM