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JUDGE'S SELECTION PROCESS
Sonja Donaldson, Chair, Judge Selection Committee
The timeline for selection
of judges for the 2009, 2010, and 2011 Specialties is presented below.
BCSA is always interested in hearing your opinions regarding the judge
selection process, as well as new suggestions. Members will soon be asked
to nominate judges for these future Specialties. Please review the judge
selection policy prior to nominating judges. Judges must be licensed at
the time of nomination, except in the case of Conformation Sweepstakes
judges. There are no restrictions against using judges that have judged
previously. Selected judges will have a significant impact on our
Specialty. Members should thoughtfully consider the qualifications,
knowledge, experience, fairness, and demeanor of judges when considering
them for nomination.
To suggest a judge, you must be a BCSA Member in good standing and must
provide your name so your membership status can be verified (i.e. no
anonymous suggestions are accepted). Please review the
Judge Selection Policy before
making your suggestion.
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Schedule for Selecting Judges |
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Judge Selection Policy |
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2009 Judge
Voting Form
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2009
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2010 Judge
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Below is the schedule
for selecting judges for the next three specialties. We will select
judges for 2009 and 2010 this year so we can get on track with this
process. The selection process for 2009 and 2010 has been staggered
slightly to avoid confusion as much as possible.
Due to the late delivery problem we are having
with Borderlines, we realized we needed to revise the JS timeline. This late
delivery problem also necessitated sending out postcards to solicit judge
nominations for the 2009 Specialty. Kat Ferruzza very graciously stepped up
and agreed to get this task done.
Here is the revised timeline (revised
dates underlined):
2009 Specialty: proposed modified
timeline for 2008:
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March 15:
Solicit nominations from membership via Borderlines (which will come out
in mid-April), each member can submit 3 names per venue (4 judges for
herding for 2009 only).
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April 1:
Solicit nominations from membership via
BCSA_ANNOUNCE (as a reminder that roughly coincides with BL arrival).
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April 30:
Deadline for receiving membership nominations.
Members may submit via email (to Sonja and Terri both) or regular mail (to
Terri), and must identify themselves for membership verification.
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May 2:
Sonja to verify licensing and send request for bio,
cost and availability via email to all top-10 judges, with returns going
back to Sonja.
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May 16:
Deadline for receiving bio’s back from judges.
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In order to keep
the process moving forward quickly for 2009 selection, we will be skipping
the step where the board chooses the top finalists (see #6 in 2011
selection process).
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May 17: Publish
the top 10 finalists in BL (which comes out in mid-June), along with their
bios. Post to Announce simultaneously. Request vote by General
Membership. *Note this is a day late for our BL deadline, but Barb
will know it’s coming and we’ll delay publication if need be.
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August 15:
Deadline for receiving membership votes for
their favorite 3 candidates in each venue. Members may vote via email (to
Sonja and Terri both) or mailed ballot (to Terri), and must identify
themselves for membership verification. The ballots will be printed
in Borderlines to reduce the cost of a separate mailing. No write-in
nominations are allowed.
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August 30:
Contracts go out to the top vote-getters.
Contracts prepared, sent and processed by JS committee.
2010 Specialty: proposed modified
timeline for 2008:
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July 15:
Solicit nominations from membership via Borderlines (which will
come out in mid-September), each member can submit 3 names per venue.
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September
5: Solicit nominations from membership via BCSA_ANNOUNCE (as
a reminder that roughly coincides with BL arrival).
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October 15:
Deadline for receiving membership nominations. Members may
submit via email (to Sonja and Terri both) or regular mail (to Terri), and
must identify themselves for membership verification.
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October 17:
Sonja to verify licensing and send request for bio, cost and
availability via email to all top-10 judges, with returns going back to
Sonja.
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October 30:
Deadline for receiving bio’s back from judges.
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In order to keep
the process moving forward quickly for 2010 selection, we will be skipping
the step where the board chooses the top finalists (see #6 in 2011
selection process).
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November 15:
Publish the top 10 finalists for each venue in BL (which comes out in
mid-December), along with their bios. Post to Announce
simultaneously. Request vote by General Membership.
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January 30
2009: Deadline for receiving membership votes for their favorite 3
candidates in each venue. Members may vote via email (to Sonja and Terri
both) or mailed ballot (to Terri), and must identify themselves for
membership verification. The ballots will be printed in Borderlines
to reduce the cost of a separate mailing. No write-in nominations
will be allowed.
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January
31. 2009: Contracts go out to the top vote-getters. Contracts
prepared, sent and processed by JS committee.
Proposed longer-term schedule, to
occur in 2009 for 2011 Specialty (will update this later if needed):
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January 15:
Solicit nominations from membership via
Borderlines (which will come out in mid-February), each member can submit
3 names per venue.
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March 1:
Solicit nominations from membership via
BCSA_ANNOUNCE (as a reminder to come out after BL arrival).
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March 15:
Deadline for receiving membership nominations.
Members may submit via email (to JS chair and Corresponding Secretary
both) or regular mail (to Corresponding Secretary), must identify
themselves for membership verification.
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April 1:
Requests for bios, cost, availability go out to
top 10 judges (sent and received by JS committee), along with a request to
“save the date.”
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April 30:
Deadline for receiving bios back from judges.
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May 1:
Board discusses bios, costs, availability; chooses 8
herding finalists and 6 finalists in all other venues (choice based mostly
on membership vote weighting).
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May 15:
Publish the finalists in BL which comes out in
June (along with names of the non-finalists and the number of membership
votes they received as compared to finalists).
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July 15:
Deadline for receiving membership votes for
their favorite 3 candidates in each venue. Members may vote via email (to
JS chair and Corresponding Secretary both) or mailed ballot (to
Corresponding Secretary), must identify themselves for membership
verification. The ballots will be printed in Borderlines to reduce
the cost of a separate mailing. No write-in nominations will be
allowed.
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July 30:
Contracts go out to the top vote-getters.
Contracts prepared, sent and processed by JS committee
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