AMA announces results of recent Board election

The AMA has announced the results of the election for the AMA Board of Directors. Charles Goman, from Winder, Ga., has been elected to represent individual members in the Southeast region. From the South Central region, incumbent Stan Simpson, who ran unopposed, will continue to serve on the Board.

Goman has been an AMA member since 1963. He is an active road and dual-sport rider and competes in vintage motocross, cross-country, trials and flat-track. Goman has served as an AMA Congressman and is currently the president of the AMA-chartered Atlanta Motorcycle Club.

Stan Simpson currently serves as the Chairman of the AMA Board of Directors. Simpson also sits on the Board of Directors of the AMA's Motorcycle Hall of Fame Museum. Simpson is a longtime road rider, off-road rider and racer, and has been an AMA member since 1957.

The AMA Board of Directors consists of 12 members. Six individual directors represent the general membership in their respective regions. Six corporate directors represent the corporate membership. All directors serve three-year terms. The AMA Board of Directors meets four times a year.

Goman will be seated at the Friday, Feb. 13, AMA Board meeting in Indianapolis, Ind. On Saturday, Feb. 14, the corporate membership will hold elections for two corporate directors. For a list of current AMA Board members, please go to www.amadirectlink.com/whatis/trustees.asp.

Votes cast in this most recent election were independently tabulated and the results certified by the accounting firm of Plante & Moran.