2012 Association of Alumni Executive Committee Candidates

John (J.B.) Daukas ’84
Association of Alumni Nominated Candidate for President

Biography
J.B. has stayed actively involved with Dartmouth since graduating in 1984. He is a past president of the Alumni Council, chair of the Alumni Liaison Committee, and member of the Alumni Council Nominating and Alumni Trustee Search Committee. While on the council, J.B. helped draft a new constitution that increased alumni representation and created the Alumni Liaison Committee (ALC) to serve as a conduit for two-way dialogue with the Dartmouth Board of Trustees. As chair of the ALC, J.B. met regularly with members of the board and helped draft and present to the trustees annual reports expressing alumni sentiment. He also created the Alumni Council Ad Hoc Committee to Support Greek Letter Organizations, and served on the association's Election Reform Study Committee which examined ways to improve trustee elections. A graduate of the University of Virginia School of Law, J.B. is a partner in the trial department of Boston-based Goodwin Procter LLP. He lives in Dover, MA, with his wife Christie and four wonderful children, one a '13.

Statement
Like most alumni, I have a deep and abiding love of Dartmouth College, and a desire to give back as much as I can to the institution that has done so much for me. My experiences on the Alumni Council, and working with members of the Association of Alumni Executive Committee (including three years in the early 2000s spent discussing and proposing improvements to alumni organizations and the trustee election process), give me a strong background and deep knowledge of current and historic issues concerning the association. I have worked hard during the last decade to help improve the alumni-College relationship, and I believe we are experiencing an extremely healthy period where the trustees and administration are respectful of alumni views and excited about working with alumni to further Dartmouth's mission in the face of ongoing and new challenges. In Jim Kim, Dartmouth has an inspirational president, and it is very important that alumni continue to be involved with the College. Running fair and focused trustee elections is extremely important in order to encourage the very best alumni to serve as trustees of Dartmouth College. I believe the representative slate of alumni nominated by the association will help facilitate that process.

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