(ANSI: New York) -- The American National Standards Institute’s (ANSI) board of directors recently appointed its new members and officers for the term beginning January 1, 2008.

Robert W. Noth, manager of engineering standards for Deere & Co., was reappointed for a third one-year term as ANSI’s chairman of the board.

Supporting the chairman will be four vice-chairmen: Arthur Cote of the National Fire Protection Association; Laura E. Hitchcock, corporate project manager, external standards for The Boeing Co.; James T. Pauley, vice president of industry and government relations at Schneider Electric/Square D Co.; and James A. Thomas, president of ASTM International. George W. Arnold, deputy director of technology services, National Institute of Standards and Technology, continues to serve as immediate past chairman.

Hitchcock and Thomas will be filling positions previously held by retiring officers Stephen P. Oksala, vice president of standards for the Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers and Mary C. McKiel, standards executive for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

The following people have been newly elected as directors-at-large for terms beginning January 1, 2008, and ending December 31, 2010:

Patrick B. Davis, Twenty in Ten coordinator, energy efficiency and renewable energy, U.S. Department of Energy

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