LABRENDA GARRETT-NELSON BECOMES THE FIRST AFRICAN AMERICAN ELECTED AS PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD FOR CERTIFICATION OF GENEALOGISTS
Labrenda arrette Nelson Board Certification of Genealogists Jacksonville , Florida November 2019
LABRENDA GARRETT-NELSON BECOMES THE FIRST AFRICAN AMERICAN ELECTED AS PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD FOR CERTIFICATION OF GENEALOGISTS
The Board for Certification of Genealogists is a nonprofit organization founded in 1964 as a professional credentialing body for genealogists . LaBrenda Garrett-Nelson is the first African American elected to lead the organization . At its semi-annual meeting held on the 7th of September 2019 in Salt Lake City , Utah , the Board of Trustees of the Board for Certification of Genealogists ( BCG ) elected officers for the coming year . Those elected were :
* President - LaBrenda Garrett-Nelson , JD , LLM , CG , CGL * Vice-President - Angela Packer McGhie , CG * Secretary - Debbie Parker Wayne , CG , CGL * Treasurer - Scott Wilds , CG * Executive Committee Member at Large - Laurel T . Baty , CG * Executive Committee Member at Large - Sara Anne Scribner , CG
Continuing as trustees for the coming year are Jeanne Larzalere Bloom , CG ; Stefani Evans , CG ; Patricia Lee Hobbs , CG ; David S . Ouimette , CG , CGL ; Nancy A . Peters , CG , CGL ; Allen R . Peterson , CG , AG ; Judy G . Russell , JD , CG , CGL ; Richard G . Sayre , CG , CGL , FUGA ; and Karen Stanbary , CG . Michael S . Ramage , JD , CG , continues as General
Counsel to the Board , and Rebecca Whitman Koford , CG , CGL , continues as Executive Director . Incoming president LaBrenda Garrett-Nelson presented retiring president Rick Sayre with a certificate of appreciation for his service . At the close of the meeting , Rick Sayre presented certificates of appreciation to Morrison D . “ Toby ” Webb , CG , retiring trustee , Laurel T . Baty , outgoing Vice-President , LaBrenda Garrett-Nelson , outgoing Treasurer , and outgoing executive committee at-large members Judy G . Russell and Nancy A . Peters .
About LaBrenda Garrett-Nelson A resident of Washington , DC ., LaBrenda earned a BA from John Jay College of Criminal Justice , City University of New York , and both a Law degree and a Master of Laws degree from the New York University School of Law . She worked as a corporate tax attorney for thirty-five years , before retiring from a partner level position at the international professional services firm of Ernst & Young , LLP in 2013 and turning her attention to her longtime avocation of Genealogy .
She began serving as the co-chair of BCG ’ s Intellectual Property Committee in 2015 , andwas elected as a trustee in 2016 . Before her election as President she served two terms as the Treasurer of BCG where she has focused on streamlining BCG ’ s financial accounts . LaBrenda has been published in the AAHGS Journal as well as the National Genealogical Society Quarterly , among other publications . In 2016 , she published A Guide to Researching African American Ancestors in Laurens County , South Carolina and Selected Finding Aids , a book that was widely hailed as a model for research in South Carolina and other states .
She was the mentor of ProGen 37 , and the Salt Lake Institute on Genealogy 2019 Course Coordinator for “ 1619- 2019 : Four Hundred Years of African American Genealogy ,” that institute ’ s inaugural African American Genealogy course She is also on the faculty of the Genealogical Research Institute of Pittsburgh and the Genealogical Institute on Federal Records . LaBrenda received the Utah Genealogical Association ’ s 2019 “ Distinguished Service Award ” ffor her instrumental guidance in support of new programs and codified policies for SLIG .
For more information , visit www . bcgcertification . org or contact Rebecca Whitman Koford , CG , CGL , at office @ bcgcertification . org .