Stevens to become AWWA president in 2011

Source: AWWA Streamlines Staff

Jerry Stevens, vowing to “convert the brain drain into the brain power of young professionals,” was elected as AWWA’s next president-elect Jan. 18 during the winter meeting of the association’s Board of Directors.

Stevens, who is general manager of the West Des Moines (Iowa) Water Works, is a registered professional engineer and holds a degree in civil engineering from the Iowa State University as well as grade IV certifications in Iowa for water treatment plant operator and distribution system operator. He has been a member of AWWA for 35 years.

He will join the officer line in June and become AWWA president in 2011.

Also elected during the board meeting as vice-presidents were

Don Broussard, water operations manager for the Lafayette (La.) utilities system and Southwest Section director;
Jim Chaffee, director of the North American water market segment for AECOM, a global engineering and consulting firm, and Wisconsin Section director;
John Donahue, general manager of the North Park (Ill.) Public Water District and Illinois Section director; and
Robert Walters, assistant manager of Davidson Water Inc. , a nonprofit cooperative water utility in Lexington, N.C., and the North Carolina Section director.

They join Charles Anderson from the Texas Section and Debra Kaye of the California–Nevada Section who will continue to serve as vice-presidents for another year.

Gary McCoy, director of water treatment at the Macon (Ga.) Water Authority, was elected to a three-year term as a director-at-large.

All the newly elected officers will assume their positions at the end of the AWWA annual conference this June in Chicago.