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Volume 102, Issue 2 23
RESOLUTION 2025-07
NATIONAL OFFICER DEFINITIONS

Sponsor Info Process Status Date
Date Submitted: 10/30/2024 Nat’l HQ Received 30 Oct 24
Resolution #
(by Resolution 2025-07 Resolutions & C33 8 Nov 24
Committee Received
Comm):
Judge Advocate
Author: James B. Bartley 7 Feb 2025
Reviewed
Co-Author C. Wayne Barnes Forwarded to Nat’l HQ 8 Feb 2025
(If Any):
C&BL Article VI,
References: ANC Final Status
Section 1

TITLE NATIONAL OFFICER DEFINITIONS

Emeritus Members are National Officers
The National Constitution and Bylaws does not address what Emeritus members are or how this status is
obtained, and
Sojourners who have served nine (9) or more consecutive years as a National Officer may be nominated
WHEREAS for Emeritus status to hold life tenure as National Officer
A member seeking Emeritus status must request such status
The request must be recommended by the nominating Committee and be voted on by the delegates and
receive a two-thirds vote at a National Convention to be granted Emeritus status
That Section 1, Article VI of the National Constitution, entitled NATIONAL OFFICER POSITIONS, the
last sentence of which reads “. . . Past National Commanders and Emeritus Members” be amended to read, “.
. . Past National Commanders and members who have been elected to Emeritus Status.”
Be it further resolved that Article VI, Section 18 of the National Bylaws entitled PAST NATIONAL
PRESIDENTS, PAST NATIONAL COMMANDERS, AND EMERITUS SOJOURNERS which reads as
follows: “These Sojourners are ex officio and non-voting members of all National-level Committees and
hold life tenure as National Officers. The National Progressive Line Officers must meet with the Past Nation-
THEREFORE, al Presidents at every National Convention and Mid-Winter Meeting. The senior Past National President,
BE IT who is present, presides.” Be amended to read:
RESOLVED a. Past National Presidents and Past National Commanders are ex officio and non-voting members of all
National-level Committees and hold life tenure as National Officers.
b. The National Progressive Line Officers must meet with the Past National Presidents at every National
Convention and Mid-Winter Meeting. The senior Past National President, who is present, presides.
c. Emeritus Sojourners are members who have served nine (9) or more years in an elected National Office
and have been elected to Emeritus status by no less than a two-thirds vote of the delegates present at a Na-
tional Convention and shall hold life tenure as National Officers.

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