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layout: blog
title: "2019 Steering Committee Election Results"
date: 2019-10-03
slug: 2019-steering-committee-election-results
---

**Authors**: Bob Killen (University of Michigan), Jorge Castro (VMware),
Brian Grant (Google), and Ihor Dvoretskyi (CNCF)

The [2019 Steering Committee Election] is a landmark milestone for the
Kubernetes project. The initial bootstrap committee is graduating to emeritus
and the committee has now shrunk to its final allocation of seven seats. All
members of the Steering Committee are now fully elected by the Kubernetes
Community.

Moving forward elections will elect either 3 or 4 people to the committee for
two-year terms.


## **Results**

The Kubernetes Steering Committee Election is now complete and the following
candidates came ahead to secure two-year terms that start immediately
(in alphabetical order by GitHub handle):

* **Christoph Blecker ([@cblecker]), Red Hat**
* **Derek Carr ([@derekwaynecarr]), Red Hat**
* **Nikhita Raghunath ([@nikhita]), Loodse**
* **Paris Pittman ([@parispittman])**, **Google**

They join Aaron Crickenberger ([@spiffxp]), Google; Davanum Srinivas ([@dims]),
VMware; and Timothy St. Clair ([@timothysc]), VMware, to round out the committee.
The seats held by Aaron, Davanum, and Timothy will be up for election around
this time next year.


## Big Thanks!

* Thanks to the initial bootstrap committee for establishing the initial
  project governance and overseeing a multi-year transition period:
    * Joe Beda ([@jbeda]), VMware
    * Brendan Burns ([@brendandburns]), Microsoft
    * Clayton Coleman ([@smarterclayton]), Red Hat
    * Brian Grant ([@bgrant0607]), Google
    * Tim Hockin ([@thockin]), Google
    * Sarah Novotny ([@sarahnovotny]), Microsoft
    * Brandon Philips ([@philips]), Red Hat
* And also thanks to the other Emeritus Steering Committee Members. Your
  prior service is appreciated by the community:
    * Quinton Hoole ([@quinton-hoole]), Huawei
    * Michelle Noorali ([@michelleN]), Microsoft
    * Phillip Wittrock ([@pwittrock]), Google
* Thanks to the candidates that came forward to run for election. May we always
  have a strong set of people who want to push the community forward like yours
  in every election.
* Thanks to all 377 voters who cast a ballot.
* And last but not least…Thanks to Cornell University for hosting [CIVS]!


## Get Involved with the Steering Committee

You can follow along with Steering Committee [backlog items] and weigh in by
filing an issue or creating a PR against their [repo]. They meet bi-weekly on
[Wednesdays at 8pm UTC] and regularly attend Meet Our Contributors.  They can
also be contacted at their public mailing list [steering@kubernetes.io].

Steering Committee Meetings:

* [YouTube Playlist]


[2019 Steering Committee Election]: https://git.k8s.io/community/events/elections/2019

[@cblecker]: https://github.com/cblecker
[@derekwaynecarr]: https://github.com/derekwaynecarr
[@nikhita]: https://github.com/nikhita
[@parispittman]: https://github.com/parispittman
[@spiffxp]: https://github.com/spiffxp
[@dims]: https://github.com/dims
[@timothysc]: https://github.com/timothysc
[@jbeda]: https://github.com/jbeda
[@brendandburns]: https://github.com/brendandburns
[@smarterclayton]: https://github.com/smarterclayton
[@bgrant0607]: https://github.com/bgrant0607
[@thockin]: https://github.com/thockin
[@sarahnovotny]: https://github.com/sarahnovotny
[@philips]: https://github.com/philips
[@quinton-hoole]: https://github.com/quinton-hoole
[@michelleN]: https://github.com/michelleN
[@pwittrock]: https://github.com/pwittrock

[CIVS]: https://civs.cs.cornell.edu/
[backlog items]: https://github.com/kubernetes/steering/projects/1
[repo]: https://github.com/kubernetes/steering
[Wednesdays at 8pm UTC]: https://github.com/kubernetes/steering
[steering@kubernetes.io]: mailto:steering@kubernetes.io
[YouTube Playlist]: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL69nYSiGNLP1yP1B_nd9-drjoxp0Q14qM
