Massachusetts psychiatrist Donna Norris, M.D., won the balloting for the post of speaker-elect of the APA Assembly last month, giving her the distinction of being the first woman and the first African American elected to that post. Norris, who just concluded a year as the Assembly's recorder, is a forensic and child psychiatrist in the Boston area. She outpolled Larry Tripp, M.D., a representative of the Texas Society of Psychiatric Physicians, by 25,228 to 9,048 votes.
In the contest for Assembly recorder, Area 1 Representative Alfred Herzog, M.D., of Hartford, Conn., defeated Thomas Allen, M.D., a representative of the Maryland Psychiatric Society. Herzog won 19,387 votes to Allen's 14,888.
The election was held at the Assembly's three-day meeting in San Diego, prior to the opening of the APA annual meeting.
(Psychiatric News, June 20, 1997)
