The Women’s Forum Board, effective with the 2006-08 election, consists of a total of 20 individuals: 18 elected Board members, the past chair and the current chair. The Women’s Forum Board puts out a call for nominations every year to elect nine new board members . Any UK full-time regular employee, faculty or staff, may be nominated to the UK Women’s Forum Board. The nine nominees with the most votes in a campus-wide election will then serve a two-year term on the Board.

If you would like to nominate yourself or a fellow UK employee to the UK Women’s Forum Board, please watch here for more information. All full-time regular faculty and staff are eligible to serve. Elections will be taking place in May 2008.

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The following people have chaired the UK Women’s Forum:

1991-92 Louise Stone
1992-93 Susan Hodgetts Stempel
1993-94 Marguerite Floyd
1994-95 Randolph Hollingsworth
1995-96 Mary Ida Gray
1996-97 Bonnie Cox
1997-98 Linda Blair
1998-99 Diana Rast
1999-00 Angela Back
2000-01 Jeanie Caldwell
2001-02 Jeanie Caldwell
2002-03 Judy Stivers Duncan
2003-04 Sue Scheff
2004-05 Tammie Disco Boggs
2005-06 Mary Bolin-Reece
2006-07 Judy Sackett
2007-08 Catie Lasley
2008-09 Karin Lewis (chair-elect)

In 2004-2005, the Women’s Forum hosted the 2005 Faculty Board of Trustee open forums, Staff Appreciation Day, the Sarah Bennett Holmes award luncheon, and seven brown-bag safety sessions. The chair of the Women’s Forum Board sits on the President's Commission on Women and is an ex-oficio member of the UK Staff Senate.

An important focus of the Women’s Forum Board is Community Service. For the past five years, the Women’s Forum has sponsored a team to participate in the Lexington Race for Cure to help raise money for Breast Cancer Research. In the spring of 2003, the Women’s Forum participated in the Spring Walk Against Child Abuse sponsored by the College of Education and the UK Relay for Life sponsored by The American Cancer Society.