11/5/2014 11:54:00 AM
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ASTM Names Morgan in Succession Plan
Katharine Morgan will become ASTM International executive vice president in 2015, in a step toward succeeding James Thomas as president in 2017.
Morgan has been vice president of technical committee operations since 2007. She came to ASTM in 1984 as a staff manager. She holds a B.S. in chemical engineering and an MBA.
ASTM chair Thomas Schwartz cited “her instinctual knowledge of the workings of ASTM technical committees, the industry sectors they represent, as well as the global standardization landscape,” as reasons for the promotion during a board meeting in South Korea.
Among the ASTM committees are F16 on Fasteners.
Morgan holds a B.S. in chemical engineering and an MBA. Outside ASTM, Morgan is a member of the American National Standards Institute’s Organizational Member Forum; the Council of Engineering and Scientific Society Executives; the International Consumer Product Health and Safety Organization; the Society for Standards Professionals; and the Standards Council of Canada’s Standards Development Organization Advisory Committee.
“Since assuming the presidency in 1992, Jim Thomas’ leadership has had an enormous positive impact on ASTM and its stakeholders,” Schwartz said of the retiring president. “Jim is a respected ambassador, advocate and a voice not only for ASTM, but also for strategic standardization as a whole.”
Over 12,000 ASTM standards operate globally – from the toy in a child’s hand to the aircraft overhead. ASTM has 30,000 members to create consensus and improve performance in manufacturing and materials, products and processes, systems and services. Web: astm.org
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