District Governor Nominee Designate has been chosen

It is my honor to announce the nomination of Kent Grier as the District Governor for the 2022-2023 Rotary Year. Kent is a member of the Rotary Club of Victoria Northside.

 

Kent Grier, the current Assistant Governor (AG) for Rotary District 2 covering Victoria, Texas has been a member of Victoria Northside Rotary since 1996 and it’s Past President in 2003-2004. He returned for a second three year term as AG following his year as District Treasurer serving DG Debbie High in 2015-2016. He is Paul Harris Fellow +8 and a Major Donor to Rotary International Foundation.

Kent has recently retired as a VP-Investments and Financial Advisor for 13 years for Wells Fargo Advisors in Victoria. He served a total of 30 years for Wells Fargo and it related companies of A.G. Edwards & Sons and Victoria Bank and Trust since 1989. He had a brief temporary duty leave to help Frost Bank of Texas in their development of the Bank’s Capital Market Division in 2005 in San Antonio, Texas.

 

Besides Rotary International Kent has served for 25 years as a Boy Scout Leader for the South Texas Council in Corpus Christi, Texas having served as their Council Commissioner (lead for BSA volunteers), a Scoutmaster and Cubmaster. He has been honored with BSA’s top Council award of the Silver Beaver, District Award of Merit and is a proud Eagle for BSA’s Advance Leader Training of Wood Badge. He is also a James E West Fellow, the Boy Scout’s National Endowment.

 

Kent and Peggy brings his energy and passion for Rotary in everything he does.

 

The nominating committee did an outstanding job of nominating Kent to serve District 5930. According to the Rotary Code of Policies, there is a 14 day challenge period after which Kent's nomination becomes official. 

 

Rotary Manual of Procedure: 14.020.8. Challenging Candidates.

Any club in the district which has been in existence for at least one year as of the beginning of that year may also propose a challenging candidate for governor nominee provided this club has previously suggested such candidate to the nominating committee. A club in existence for less than one year as of the beginning of that year may propose a challenging candidate provided such candidate is a member of that club and the challenging candidate must have been duly suggested to the nominating committee. The name of the challenging candidate shall be submitted pursuant to a resolution by the club adopted at a regular meeting. The club must file the resolution with the governor by the date determined by the governor. Such date shall be not more than 14 days after publication of the announcement of the selection for governor-nominee by the governor.

 

For your use I have attached a link to the Rotary Manual of Procedure should you want to learn more about this process. https://my.rotary.org/en/learning-reference/about-rotary/governance-documents

Yours in Rotary Service, Ellison

 

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