# LCMS Convention Workbook_St. Louis Missouri_2013_S215
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

Seminary and University Education
(b) Approximately 24 months before a regular meeting of the Synod
in convention, he shall solicit from the mission boards and the synodwide corporate entity boards descriptions of criteria for qualified
candidates to serve on those boards.
(c) With such criteria in view, the Secretary shall issue the first call for
nominations through a publication of the Synod and on the Synod
Web site 18 months before the convention, soliciting names from
mission boards and synodwide corporate entity boards, as well as
congregations, district presidents, district boards of directors, circuit
counselors, and other likely sources.
(d) All incumbents eligible for reelection shall be considered for nominations.
(e) Qualifications of each nominee shall be submitted together with the
names on forms made available on the Synod’s Web site.
(f) All suggested names and information for consideration by the Committee for Convention Nominations shall be submitted to the Secretary of the Synod no later than nine months prior to the convention
of the Synod.
(g) The Secretary shall present the names and information gathered to
the Committee for Convention Nominations at its first meeting.
3.12.3.5 The first meeting of the Committee for Convention Nominations shall be at the call of the Secretary of the Synod at least six
months prior to the convention of the Synod.
(a) The Secretary shall not serve as a member of the committee, but he
shall convene the initial meeting of the committee and be available,
upon call, for consultation.
(b) The committee shall elect its own chairman, vice-chairman, and secretary and shall organize its work in whatever way it deems necessary.
(c) The committee shall inform itself as to the duties and requirements
of each position to be filled and thereby be guided in its selection of
nominees.
(d) In the case of the boards of regents of educational institutions of the
Synod, the committee shall consult with the President of the Synod
or the Board of Directors of Concordia University System to receive
their input for the committee’s consideration. The President of the
Concordia University System (or a designee) and the Secretary of
Synod (or a designee) shall review and verify that the Synod Convention nominees are qualified as stated in Bylaw 3.10.5.2.7.
3.12.3.6 The Committee for Convention Nominations shall nominate candidates for all elective offices, boards, and commissions except
President and vice-presidents and elective positions requiring regional
nominations (Bylaws 3.12.2.5; 3.3.4.1; 3.8.2.2; 3.8.3.2).
(a) At least two candidates shall be nominated for each position.
(b) The committee shall determine its complete list of candidates and
alternates, obtain the consent of the persons it proposes to nominate,
and transmit its final report at least five months prior to the convention to the Secretary of the Synod, who shall post the list on the
Synod’s Web site and provide for its publication in a pre-convention
issue of an official periodical of the Synod and in the Convention
Workbook.
(c) The committee’s report shall list the qualifications of various positions used in the solicitation of candidates and contain pertinent
information concerning each candidate, such as occupation or profession; district affiliation; residence; specific experience; number of
years as a member of an LCMS congregation; present position; offices previously held in a congregation, district, or the Synod; qualifications for the office in question; and, if the candidate so desires,
also a brief personal statement.
3.12.3.7 The chairman of the Committee for Convention Nominations shall submit the committee’s report in person to the convention at
one of its earliest sessions.
(a) The convention may amend the slate by nominations from the floor.
(b) Floor nominations shall be brought individually before the convention for approval before being added to the ballot. No floor nominations shall be accepted which would preclude, by virtue of election

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limitations of such office, election of any pending nominee already
on the slate of candidates received from the Committee for Convention Nominations without disclosing such potential effect immediately to the convention.
(c) Such floor nominations may be made only from the list of names
which have previously been offered to the Committee for Convention Nominations prior to the final deadline for the submission of
nominations, unless the convention shall otherwise order by a simple majority vote. The President of the Concordia University System (or a designee) and the Secretary of Synod (or a designee) shall
review and verify that all floor nominees to serve as a member of a
Concordia University System board of regents possess the qualifications as stated in Bylaw 3.10.5.2.7. The Chief Administrative Officer
of Synod (or a designee) and the Secretary of Synod (or a designee)
shall review and verify that all floor nominees to serve as a member
of the Concordia University System Board of Directors possess the
qualifications as stated in Bylaw 3.6.6.3.
(d) If the convention approves the receipt of such additional nominations, any delegate making such a nomination shall have secured
prior written consent of the candidate being nominated and shall
immediately submit it to the chairman of the Committee for Convention Nominations, along with required pertinent information concerning the nominee as detailed in Bylaw 3.12.3.6(c).
(e) Whenever possible, the chairman of the Committee for Convention
Nominations shall have on hand at the convention a reserve list of
nominees, approved by the committee, for use if required.
(f) Whenever possible, the Committee for Convention Nominations
should be informed in advance if any new board or commission is
likely to be established at a convention of the Synod, so that it may
have a slate of candidates in readiness.
3.12.3.8 The Committee for Convention Nominations, in consultation with officials of the Synod, shall maintain a description of the desirable expertise required for each elected position and shall transmit this
information together with suggestions for improvement of procedures to
the next committee through the Secretary of the Synod.

Concordia University Irvine
5-06

To Clarify Qualifications for College
and University Boards of Regents
Whereas, Synod Bylaws include on each Concordia College and
University board of regents eight seats for ordained and commissioned ministers and laypersons, to be elected half by the Synod and
half by the geographical district in which the institution is located
(Bylaw 3.10.5.2, 1–2); and
Whereas, “The board of regents of each institution shall consider as one of its primary duties the defining and fulfilling of the
mission of the institution within the broad assignment of the Synod”
(Bylaw 3.10.5.1); and
Whereas, The duties of a board of regents are, therefore, not
exclusively and perhaps not even principally financial in nature, their
responsibility being the supervision of the overall welfare and mission
of these educational institutions within the mission of The Lutheran
Church—Missouri Synod as a whole; and
Whereas, The list of qualifications expressed in Bylaw 3.I0.5.2,
7 (introduced in 2010 Res. 5-09B) reflects almost exclusively administrative and financial qualifications, thus excluding many candidates
capable of helping shape and direct the mission of the Concordias
“within the broad assignment of the Synod” (e.g., parish pastors and
parochial teachers, who would well understand how to prepare church
workers and promote church-work professions; solidly Lutheran
laymen and women in all fields, who may not have significant

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