Officers and Committees – 2026

Elective positions

Officers
Directors
Councilors
Alternate councilors

Officers from past years

Record of past officers including standing committees back to 1997

Get to know the members of the Board of Directors and other members in governance: click on their “Profile” link to see a photo and brief biographical sketch.

Elected officers
Chair

chair@stlacs.org

Eden Tesfu Profile | Contact
Chair-elect

chair@stlacs.org

Jeramia Ory Profile | Contact
Secretary

sec@stlacs.org

Lisa Balbes Profile | Contact
Treasurer

treasurer@stlacs.org

Paula Miller
Immediate Past Chair

chair@stlacs.org

Elizabeth Bergman Profile | Contact
Directors
Term of office 2025-2026
James Bashkin Profile | Contact
Cristina DeMeo Profile | Contact
Rhonda Woerndle Contact
Term of office 2026-2027
Mikhail Berezin Profile | Contact
Sean Dingman Profile | Contact
John-Stephen Taylor Profile | Contact
Councilors
Term of office 2024-2026
Donna Friedman Profile | Contact
Term of office 2025-2027
Jeramia Ory Profile | Contact
Alternate Councilors
Term of office 2024-2026
John Walker Profile | Contact
Term of office 2025-2027
Brent Znosko Contact
Executive Committee
All members of the Executive Committee (aka Board of Directors) are ex officio
Four elected Officers
Immediate Past Chair
All elected Directors-at-large
All elected Councilors
Chairs of the following committees:

Steering Committee
Chair ex officio
Jeramia Ory Contact
Members ex officio
Eden Tesfu Contact
Elizabeth Bergman Contact
Lisa Balbes Contact
Appointed members
Jen Heemstra Contact
Cynthia Chapple Contact
Appointed at-large positions
Delegate to the Midwest Region
Suzy Hartmann Contact
Parliamentarian
Lawrence Barton Contact
Registered Agent of the Corporation
David Haselbauer Contact
Investment Trustees
Member ex officio
Paula Miller Contact
Appointed members
Sean Dingman (2024-2026) Contact
Bill Doub (2023-2025) Contact
Eric Ressner (2022-2024) Contact
Audit Committee
Appointed, serving as Chair
Donna Friedman Contact
Appointed members
Bill Doub Contact
Awards Committee
Chair

awards@stlacs.org

Mikhail Berezin Profile | Contact
Midwest Award
Leah O’Brien Contact
St Louis Award
John-Stephen Taylor Contact
St Louis Award Banquet
Keith Stine Contact
Awards Night
Elizabeth Bergman Contact
College Student Awards
Michael Hauser Profile | Contact
High School Teaching Award
Rob Lamb Profile | Contact
Science Fair Coordinator
GSM Sundaram Contact
Chemical Science & Technology Award
Rui Tang Profile | Contact
Education Committee
Chair

education@stlacs.org

Open
High School Chemistry Awards
Bruce Hamper Contact
High School Chemistry Contest
Bruce Hamper Contact
Chemistry Olympiad
Bruce Hamper Contact
Hal Harris Contact
Keith Stine Contact
Battle of the Burets
Megumi Yoshioka-Tarver Contact
Chemistry is pHun
Open
Kids and Chemistry
Reni Joseph Contact
Undergraduate Research Symposium
Susan Wiediger Contact
Career Day
Jim O’Brien Contact
Keith Stine Contact
Professional Activities Committee
Chair

profact@stlacs.org

Brent Znosko Profile | Contact
Membership
Brent Znosko Contact
Media Response
Hal Harris Contact
Career Resources
Lisa Balbes Contact
Minority Affairs
Naomi Msengi Contact
Women Chemists Committee
Cristina DeMeo Contact
Debanjana Ghosh Contact
Governmental Affairs
Dave Garin Contact
Historian
Open
Younger Chemists Committee
Chair

ycc@stlacs.org

Tabbetha Bohac Contact
Media coordinator
Kathleen Chaffee Contact
Event coordinator
Open
Executive members
Bo Bi Contact
Eric Bruton Contact
Kathleen McGee Contact
Program Committee
Chair

program@stlacs.org

Rhonda Woerndle Profile | Contact
General Topics
Open
Chromatography Discussion Group
Cheng Zhang Contact
Education Topical Group
Mike Howe Contact
Mass Spectrometry Discussion Group
Gary Patti Contact
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Discussion Group
Alexander Barnes Contact
Sophia Hayes Contact
Joel Garbow Contact
Organic Synthesis Discussion Group
Open
St Louis Award Symposium
TBA (contact Committee Chair)
Publicity & Public Relations Committee
Chair

pub@stlacs.org

Jeramia Ory Profile | Contact
Webmaster/Mailing List Manager

webmaster@stlacs.org

Eric Ressner Contact
Public Outreach
Open
Fundraising
Open
Chemical Bond
Editor

editor@stlacs.org

JB Carroll Contact
Associate Editor

editor@stlacs.org

Eric Ressner Contact
Asst Editor/Advertising Manager

advmgr@stlacs.org

Keith Stine Contact
Business Manager

bizmgr@stlacs.org

Donna Friedman Contact
Special events and programs
National Chemistry Week
Open
Chemical Progress Week
Open
Project SEED
Open
Banquet coordinator
Open
TIE contact
Frank Salter Contact
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