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General Conference Session delegates select 2015 nominating committee members

July 3, 2015

San Antonio, Texas

ANN/Adventist Review Staff
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Below is a list of the nominating committee  for the 2015 GC Session. The 252-member committee is responsible for selecting names to be chosen for the Church’s top leaders.

  • Trecartin, Homer - Chairman

  • Hart, Richard - Vice-Chair

  • Pollard, Leslie - Secretary

  • Doss, Cheryl - Associate Secretary

 General Members

  • Abali, Comfort

  • Abraham, Raju

  • Acevedo del Villar, Cesario

  • Akombwa, Harrington

  • Altink, Willem

  • Alvarado Benavides, Washington

  • Alyeksyeyenko, Viktor

  • Annan-Nunoo, Christopher

  • Arciniegas Naranjo, Yovany

  • Arco, Stanley

  • Aromaki, J Kalervo

  • Asekun-Olarimoye, Esther

  • Asoy, Leonardo

  • Assembe Minyono, Valere

  • Assienin, Salomon

  • Badu, James

  • Baildam, John

  • Baliki, Aho

  • Baloyo, Rudy

  • Bana, Abel Anak

  • Barnes, Clare

  • Barnett, Ed

  • Battle Brooks, Renee

  • Beckett, John R

  • Bezares Lopez, Magdalena

  • Bindas, Stephen

  • Biscaro, Reynaldo

  • Brandão, Alijofran

  • Brill, Debra

  • Brink, Penelope L

  • Brown, Everett

  • Brown, Kabelo

  • Buor, Daniel

  • Burgos, Victor

  • Burt, Christine

  • Byilingiro, Hesron

  • Byrd, Carlton

  • Caceres Lungo, Alvaro

  • Caicedo Solis, Juan

  • Calderon Miranda, Irving

  • Calvo Manso, Jesus

  • Cano, Ramiro

  • Caporal, Pierre

  • Cardoso, Antonio

  • Castillo, Ernest

  • Castillo, Ismael

  • Catane, Agapito

  • Cecil, Germaine

  • Cerdá, Marcelo

  • Cesano, M Gabriel

  • Chekelek, Nikolay

  • Choga, Micah

  • Costa, Myrna

  • Cruz, Deola

  • Culmore, Wayne

  • Danso-Abeam, Kwaku

  • De Abreu, Ruben

  • De Gracia, Jose

  • de Lima, Jose

  • de Sousa, Domingos

  • Dina, Uwankwera

  • Ditta, Michael

  • Doss, Cheryl

  • Duffy, Jonathan

  • Dulan, Garland

  • Espinoza, Tomas

  • Folkenberg, Robert

  • Fournier, Frank

  • Frederick, Roderick

  • Galeon, Bienvenido  Jr.

  • Galusha, Dale

  • Garcia Arroyo, Ever

  • Gayoba, Francisco

  • Gerard, Karasira

  • Gill Krug, Carlos

  • Golay, James

  • Gollakoti, Nageshwar Rao

  • Graham, Ricardo

  • Grassl, Christian

  • Guerrero, Alvaro

  • Hachalinga, Passmore

  • Handysides, Allan R

  • Hart, Richard

  • Heidinger Zevallos, Edward

  • Heinrich, Gene

  • Henry, Bertie

  • Henry, Clerveus Anneus

  • Herinirina, Jasmin

  • Houghton, Daniel

  • Inada, Yutaka

  • Jadhav, Ramesh

  • Jagadhane, Vijay Jacob

  • James, Kaggya

  • Jennah ep. Poligadoo, Nicole

  • Jennah, David

  • Jernigan, Don

  • Jiao, Wang Xin (Daniel)

  • Johannsson, Johann

  • Johnson, Leonard

  • Johnson, Mark

  • Johnson, Vivian

  • Jonas, Carlos

  • Kalbermatter, Ignacio

  • Kampen, Inna

  • Kemp, Bradley

  • Kenaope, Kenaope

  • Kim, Dae Sung

  • Kim, Daesong

  • Kim, SiYoung

  • King, Donald

  • King, Luis

  • Kisile Mikuo, Olive

  • Klingbeil, Chantal

  • Knight, G. Earl

  • Kook, Shurman

  • Krasilnikov, Igor

  • Kulakov, Victor

  • Kuyama, Frackson

  • Kwanin, Kwame

  • Kwegelah, Daud

  • Kyte, Robert

  • Lakra, Ezras

  • Larmie, Samuel

  • Laurent, Max-Rene

  • Lazaro Carballo, Benjamin

  • Lee, Myun Ju

  • Lee-Nam, Young Ja

  • Lekundayo, Godwin

  • Lemon, Thomas

  • Letseli, Tankiso

  • Licite, Aira

  • Lima, Mauricio

  • Livesay, Don

  • Lopes, Marlinton

  • Lozano, Leonel

  • Luxton, Andrea

  • Lyan, Kelly

  • Maangi, Jonathan

  • Maena, Kenneth

  • Majoi, Jose

  • Mallikarjunaiah, Ravindra Shankar

  • Mambu, Amelius Tommy

  • Marques, Jose

  • Martinelli, Mario

  • Maruta, Alemu

  • Mawa, Clement

  • Mbayo, Maloba

  • Mendez, Julio

  • Moacir da Silva, Moises

  • Mok, Joshua

  • Moldovanu, Andrei

  • Moore, Larry

  • Moorooven, Hensley

  • Morel, Hubert

  • Moses, Garikapati

  • Moyo, Makhosiwonke

  • Muchanga, Girimoio

  • Mueller, Anne-May

  • Muhune, Robert

  • Munteanu, Cristian

  • Munyangabe, Emmanuel

  • Munyumbwe, Vanny

  • Musema, Noah

  • Musija, Zlatko

  • Mutero, Andrew

  • Mwakalonge, Magulilo

  • Naether, Johannes

  • Navarro Perez, Ignacio

  • Nebblett, Natasha

  • Nsabiyaremye, Jethron

  • Nyaga, Frederick

  • Obando, Abimael

  • Ocsai, Tamas

  • Odibo, Chioma

  • Omari, Stella

  • Ostrovski, Moisei

  • Ott, Rubin

  • Oyeleke, Owolabi

  • P, Antony Patrick

  • Pacheco, Abel

  • Pacheco, Manuel

  • Palacio, Julio

  • Panayotov, Ventsislav

  • Paris, Stefano

  • Pavlik, Mikulas

  • Peranginangin, Joseph

  • Perez Reyes, Aldo

  • Perez, Carmen

  • Pinto, Luis Mario

  • Pollard, Leslie

  • Pomaleu, Geoffrey

  • Porto, Volnei

  • Proffitt, Kathryn

  • Pusey, Dexter

  • Queiroz, Geovani

  • Rambob, Gaddam

  • Ramos Lagos, Adan

  • Randriamampionona, Joseph Parfait

  • Redondo Ramirez, Edgar

  • Reyna, Moises

  • Rice, Leigh

  • Ricketts, Alyssa

  • Roberts, Randall Lee

  • Rodrigues, Antonio

  • Rodriguez Muniz, Jose

  • Rodriguez, Josney

  • Roger, Guy

  • Romanov, Vladimir

  • Romero, Daniel

  • Rono, Philip

  • Roshchupkin, Aleksandr

  • Ruiz, Wilfredo

  • Sakul, Noldy

  • Sanchez Ruiz, Jose

  • Sanchez Umanzor, Victor

  • Sangoma, Ireen

  • Santiago, Leonino

  • Santos, José

  • Schwarz, Alexander

  • Shimada, Masumi

  • Siburian, Esron

  • Siguelnitzky, Dario

  • Silva, Helder

  • Slusher, Dennis

  • Smith, Ron

  • St Pierre, Mathias

  • Stanley, Chester

  • Swaminathan, Karunakaran

  • Taraniuk, Zhan

  • Tegene, Fesaha

  • Thangavelu, Jeyaraj

  • Thason, Samuel

  • Thomas, Ben

  • Tobias, Kern

  • Tomei, Milagros

  • Torkelsen, Max

  • Torres de Dios, Tomas

  • Tostes, Antonio

  • Townend, Glenn

  • Trajkovski, Djordje

  • Trecartin, Homer

  • Udoh, Bassey

  • Vega Ramirez, Ruth

  • Velasco, Rabi

  • Wanitschek, Rainer

  • Weigley, Dave

  • Will, Evelyn

  • Winston, William

  • Wlodarczyk, Zofia

  • Zahn, Gilmar

  • Zimik, Barnabas

  • Zinke, E Edward

    Learn more about the nominating committee from this ANN article.

    ANN/Adventist Review Staff

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