TAM invites you to become more involved. Below is a list of Committees, Committee Chairs (phone numbers and email addresses of current board members are located in the About TAM section of this website. ), and the Purpose of each committee. Please help keep TAM the vibrant and effective organization that it already is by sharing your talents on one of the following committees!

BOARD COMMITTEES OPEN TO THE MEMBERSHIP

2009 Conference to be held in Dallas - (Melanie Grimes, Doug Skierski and Mike Kopp) - Responsibilities: To plan and make all arrangements for the TAM Annual Conference.

2010 Conference to be held in Austin - (Toylaine Spencer and Tracy Watson) - Responsibilities: To plan and make all arrangements for the TAM Annual Conference.

Marketing Mediation to the Public - (Open) - Responsibilities: To develop short and long-term objectives for TAM’s efforts to increase the use of mediation by the public and to implement pilot projects and other efforts consistent with the objectives. One project under construction is a TAM brochure.

Membership - (Cris Gilbert & Suzanne Duvall) - Responsibilities: To communicate with members, to process membership applications and suggest ways to continue to improve the benefits TAM has to offer to its members, thereby encouraging the TAM membership to grow.

Case Book/Form Book - (Doug Skierski and Austin O'Toole) - Responsibilities: To update the materials for an electronic database containing cases relevant to mediation and forms used by mediators which will be offered as a member benefit.

Newsletter/Editorial Board - (Jan Berger, Editor, Josefina Rendon, Z. Lewis, & Meg Walker) - Responsibilities: To manage the publication of a high-quality quarterly newsletter with a variety of topics which will be of interest to TAM members and to develop editorial policy for the newsletter.

Bilingual Mediation Issues - (Clara Gomez & David Garza) - Responsibilities: To increase the use of mediation within the rapidly growing Hispanic population in Texas. In 2002-3, this committee collected information from all the DRCs in Texas about bilingual mediations and developed a bilingual brochure that explains mediation in English and Spanish.

Legislation - (Tracy Watson) - Responsibilities: To monitor legislation related to mediation and to represent the TAM Board’s position on legislation