2025 candidates' election statements and backgrounds

Two candidates will vie for the office of president-elect of the American Chemical Society for 2026 in this year’s election. They are Christina Bodurow, the deputy director and chief operating officer of AVIDD/SyneRX at Stanford University School of Medicine, and Dawn Mason, the assistant vice chancellor for partnerships at NC State University. The successful candidate will serve as ACS president in 2027 and as a member of the ACS Board of Directors from 2026–28. ACS Districts II and IV will hold elections for director. Successful candidates will serve on the ACS Board of Directors from 2026–28. Candidates for District II director are Kimberly Agnew-Heard, the director of regulatory affairs at Altria Client Services, and Mary Engelman, a retired innovation process chemist at Eastman Chemical Company. District II consists of members assigned to or residing in local sections having their headquarters in Indiana (except the Saint Joseph Valley and Wabash Valley Local Sections), Kentucky, Michigan (except the Kalamazoo Section and Upper Peninsula Local Section), North Carolina, Ohio, Tennessee (except the Memphis Local Section), Pennsylvania (except the Central Pennsylvania and Erie Local Sections and the Lehigh Valley, Penn-York, and Susquehanna Valley Sections), Virginia, or West Virginia and those members with addresses in the states of Indiana (except Lake and Porter Counties), Kentucky, Ohio, Michigan (except Dickinson County), Tennessee, Virginia, or West Virginia who are not assigned to local sections.Candidates for District IV director are Milagros “Milly” Delgado, the director of undergraduate studies in the Chemistry and Biochemistry Department at Florida International University, and Lisa Houston,