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Brad Truitt
(Chair)

Natalie Chrastil
(Vice Chair)

During SEARCH’s recent annual Membership Group meeting held July 29-30, 2014, in Salt Lake City, Utah, SEARCH Members held elections for the Board of Directors.

Newly elected Board officers include:

• Mr. Brad Truitt, Director of Information Systems, Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (Chair)
• Ms. Natalie A. Chrastil, Ph.D., Deputy Director CJIS, Wyoming Division of Criminal Investigation (Vice Chair)

Newly elected Board directors include:

• Ms. Julie Butler, Administrator, General Services Division, Nevada Department of Public Safety
• Mr. Dan Foro, Senior Advisor, New York State Sheriffs’ Association Institute (At-Large Member)
• Mr. Joe Morrissey, Director, Office of Criminal Justice Operations, New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services
• Mr. Matthew Ruel, Director, Maine State Bureau of Identification, Maine State Police

Directors re-elected to a second term are:

• Mr. Oded Galili, Deputy Director, Minnesota Justice Information Services, Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, Minnesota Department of Public Safety
• Ms. Dawn A. Peck, Manager, Bureau of Criminal Identification, Idaho State Police
• Mr. Phillip Stevenson, Ph.D., Director, Statistical Analysis Center, Arizona Criminal Justice Commission (At-Large Member)

Continuing on the Board are:

• Ms. Linda K. Denly, Chief, Bureau of Criminal Identification & Investigative Services, Division of Justice Information Services, California Department of Justice
• Major Timothy McGrail, Commander, Technical Services Bureau, Missouri State Highway Patrol
• Mr. Maury Mitchell, Director, Alabama Criminal Justice Information Center
• Mr. David Steingraber, Senior Policy Advisor, National Criminal Justice Association (At-Large Member)
• Mr. Robert Wessels, Vice Chair, Judicial Committee on Information Technology, State of Texas (At-Large Member)
• Mr. Curtis Wood, Undersecretary, Forensic Science and Technology, Massachusetts Executive Office of Public Safety and Security