This Fall the USBF will conduct an election to fill 3 seats on its Board of Directors. The seats are for three-year terms commencing January 1, 2025. 

Nominees must be Active USBF members, having paid the 2024 annual active or resident member dues of $50.

If you are interested in being nominated, email Brian Platnick, Chair of the 2024 Nominating Committee. The USBF Nominating Committee will meet and may interview potential Board candidates. The Nominating Committee slate will be posted no later than November 25, 2024.

In addition to those candidates nominated by the nominating committee, candidates may be nominated by petition. Twenty-five or more Active or Resident Members of USBF may nominate an Active or Resident Member for a Board position. To file a petition nominating a candidate, email Jan Martel with the name of the candidate and the names and email addresses of the people making the nomination on or before November 20, 2024. If there are no petition candidates, the candidates nominated by the Nominating Committee will either be elected without the need for an election (if there are only three nominees), or will be the entire slate of nominees for the election.

See the election timeline below for when things happen. Download the Election Procedures and Board Member Expectations for more complete information about the election.

 * BMD = Ballot Mailing Date

** Necessary only if more candidates are nominated than there are positions open.

NATIONAL TEAMS

The USA Senior team (Reese Milner, Hemant Lall, Bobby Levin, Eric Rodwell, Michael Rosenberg, Zia Mahmood, Jacek (Pepsi) Pszcola NPC, Joyjit Sensarma Coach) won the gold medal, and the Women's team (Lynn Baker, Olivia Schireson, Jill Meyers, Kerri Sanborn, Cecilia Dwyer Rimstedt, Sandra Rimstedt,  Joe Stokes NPC, Sam Dinkin Coach) won the bronze medal in the 2024 World Bridge Games. Three members of the Senior team (Reese Milner, Hemant Lall, and Zia Mahmood) were defending their 2016 gold medal (the World Bridge Games are held every 4 years, but were not held in 2020); one other player from the 2016 gold medal Senior team, Chip Martel, played in Buenos Aires, his Open team lost to Switzerland in the Quarterfinal. Kerri Sanborn won gold in 2016; sadly, two of her teammates (Lynn Deas and Beth Palmer) are no longer with us; two others (Janice Molson & Sylvia Shi) played in the Mixed event in Buenos Aires, losing to silver medalist China in the Quarterfinal.

GOLD MEDALIST SENIOR TEAM ON THE MEDAL STAND

Reese Milner, NPC Jacek (Pepsi) Pszcola, Bobby Levin, Hemant Lall, Eric Rodwell, Coach Joyjit Sensarma, Zia Mahmood, Michael Rosenberg, photo by Chrissie Albice.

Senior Team at Playing Site

Coach Joyjit Sensarma, Hemant Lall, Zia Mahmood, Reese Milner, Michael Rosenberg, Bobby Levin, Eric Rodwell

BRONZE MEDALIST WOMEN'S TEAM ON THE MEDAL STAND

Olivia Schireson, Lynn Baker, Sandra Rimstedt, Kerri Sanborn, NPC Joe Stokes, Jill Meyers, Coach Sam Dinkin, Cecilia Dwyer Rimstedt; photo by Constance McAlvoy.

NATIONAL PAIRS

Congratulations to Joel Wooldridge and Kent Mignocchi who won gold in the National Open Pair competition and to Mike and Allison Cappelletti who won bronze in the National Mixed Pairs.

Open Pairs Gold Medalists

Joel Wooldridge and Kent Mignocchi. Photo by Lynn Baker.

Mixed Pairs Bronze

MIke and Allison Cappelletti. Photo by Lynn Baker.

Transnational pablo lambardi teams

Congratulations to the Shourie team (USBF members Rajath Shourie, Gavin Wolpert, Vince Demuy, and John Kranyak, with Norwegians Tor Elvind Grude and Geir Helgemo) who won gold in the Pablo Lambardi teams, and to the US Mixed team (Susan Zhang, Eddie Wold, Sylvia Shi, Daniel Korbel, Janice Molson, Geoff Hampson, NPC Bob Morris) who won bronze.

Gold Medalists

Vince Demuy, Rajath Shourie, Tor Elvind Grude, Geir Helgemo, John Kranyak, Gavin Wolpert. Photo by Boye Brogeland

Bronze Medalists

Geoff Hampson, Janice Molson, Eddie Wold, Susan Zhang, Sylvia Shi, Dan Korbel, NPC Bob Morris.