How to Use chairperson in a Sentence

chairperson

noun
  • A new chairperson for the committee has not yet been appointed.
  • The election of the next chairperson will be one of the roles of the committee.
    Patrick Frater, Variety, 28 June 2023
  • The board of the high-end stationary bikes and treadmills named Karen Boone as chairperson.
    BostonGlobe.com, 13 Sep. 2022
  • In a follow-up letter, Tremble thanked the chairperson for the prompt response.
    Isabelle Chapman, CNN, 18 Aug. 2023
  • Fouse will remain with Agios as its new board chairperson.
    Adam Feuerstein, STAT, 13 July 2022
  • Michels announced his change in views on the commission hours before it was set to choose a new chairperson.
    Patrick Marley, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 25 May 2022
  • The board's chairperson, Robert Franklin, said a lawsuit over the vote, though expected, is troubling news.
    USA TODAY, 1 Aug. 2023
  • The members appoint their chairperson, who runs the public meetings and sets the agenda.
    Ryan Randazzo, The Arizona Republic, 4 Jan. 2023
  • Tara Childers, Frisco Threads chairperson, said each week about 18 to 20 families get clothes there.
    Dallas News, 9 Jan. 2023
  • Commission chairperson Davidetta Browne Lansanah said the run-off vote would be held on Nov. 14.
    Reuters, CNN, 25 Oct. 2023
  • Ford will stay in his advisory role through the summer while the CFDA votes for a new chairperson.
    Steff Yotka, Vogue, 16 May 2022
  • Hoover denies that the burns are part of her scholarly work and says that she had been invited by the tribal chairperson who hosted the burns.
    Jay Caspian Kang, The New Yorker, 26 Feb. 2024
  • Jennifer Rodriguez, of Oak Lawn, chairperson of the show and a guild member since 2005, said people should rethink stereotypes about the craft.
    Melinda Moore, Chicago Tribune, 29 Sep. 2022
  • Chris Kreke, the chairperson for the high school performing arts department, told the school board in April that a space like this was badly needed and has been on his mind for years.
    Mj Slaby, The Indianapolis Star, 28 June 2022
  • Once received, the sheriff must notify the chairperson of the County Board and then file the resignation with the county clerk.
    Journal Sentinel, 27 Jan. 2023
  • Swati Maliwal, the chairperson of the Delhi Commission of Women, said the woman told her she'd been raped by three men.
    Esha Mitra, CNN, 4 Feb. 2022
  • The stylebook will continue to discourage chair as a verb, and not recognize the clunky noun chairperson.
    WSJ, 11 Nov. 2022
  • Reeves is policy chairperson for the RGA and is seeking a second term as governor this year.
    Emily Wagster Pettus, ajc, 20 June 2023
  • Meng began her role as the rotating chairperson of the company in April and is expected to stay in the position for six months.
    Michelle Toh, CNN, 21 Sep. 2023
  • She was unanimously elected as chairperson of the board in 2017.
    Quinlan Bentley, The Courier-Journal, 1 June 2023
  • Kamilah Moore, the task force’s chairperson, said the group has not decided on any dollar amounts or what form reparations could take, nor where the money would come from.
    Sophie Austin and Janie Har, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Dec. 2022
  • The school principal and LSC chairperson offer a joint recommendation of the new name.
    Tracy Swartz, chicagotribune.com, 16 Mar. 2022
  • Still, a long and steady period of rainfall is what the state needs to pull out of this drought, said Vandana Rao, the state’s director of water policy and chairperson of the drought task force.
    Nick Stoico, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Aug. 2022
  • At that point, she was asked by Marcy Steele to serve on a committee to organize a library and then to serve as chairperson of that committee.
    Susan Holland, Arkansas Online, 16 Jan. 2023
  • The show had grown as well as the trees and landscaping at its former location on the greens in downtown Hudson, according to the event chairperson, Cathy Welner.
    Joan Rusek, cleveland, 9 Aug. 2023
  • The committee revising the guidelines has had its first meeting, said chairperson Dr. Joshua Safer.
    Jen Christensen, CNN, 26 Feb. 2024
  • Lowe is the chairperson of the Wauwatosa Equity and Inclusion Commission.
    Evan Casey, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 11 Apr. 2022
  • Aguirre had been serving as an alternate to Padilla, who was the commission’s chairperson.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Mar. 2023
  • Her appointment comes months after Anne Wade became the firm's first female chairperson.
    Claire Zillman, Fortune, 12 May 2023
  • The Democratic state chairpersons also said Texas ought to immediately take down the wire.
    Anna Giaritelli, Washington Examiner, 19 Oct. 2023

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