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Brothers, Dupler, Piester Elected Board Officers; Six Named As Directors

International Code Council Board President James L. Brothers (left), Building Director for the City of Decatur, Alabama, was elected to the ICC Board during the Annual Business Meeting of the 2010 ICC Annual Conference in Charlotte. William (Bill) Dupler (second from left), Interim Deputy County Administrator for Chesterfield County, Virginia, was elected Vice President while Ronald E. Piester (second from right), Director of the New York Department of State Division of Code Enforcement and Administration, was elected Secretary/Treasurer. They are pictured with Board Immediate Past President Ron Lynn of Clark County, Nevada.

James L. Brothers, Building Director for the City of Decatur, Alabama, was elected President of the International Code Council Board of Directors during the Annual Business Meeting of the 2010 ICC Annual Conference in Charlotte, North Carolina. Brothers, who previously was Vice President of the Code Council Board, serves on the Alabama Residential and Energy Codes Board, which is responsible for developing the first statewide construction regulations for minimum energy code compliance and minimum codes and standards for residential construction. He formerly served on the Legislative and Codes Advisory Council for the American Society of Interior Design, and is Past President of the North Alabama Code Officials Association and the Code Officials Association of Alabama (COAA).

In 1997, Brothers was the recipient of the Alabama Code Official of the Year Award, and was presented the COAA Distinguished Service Award in 1999. Under his leadership, the City of Decatur was the first in the United States to adopt the ICC Performance Code for Buildings and Facilities. Brothers is a graduate of the University of Alabama.

He was elected President during the Code Council's Annual Conference in late October in Charlotte, North Carolina, and has served on the Board since 2005.

Interim Deputy County Administrator for Chesterfield County, Virginia, William (Bill) Dupler was elected Vice President of the ICC Board of Directors. Dupler is responsible for all aspects of the application of building and maintenance codes and conducts extensive educational programs for code users in Chesterfield County. He has worked in Virginia as a plans examiner, engineering supervisor, deputy building official and building official since 1978. Dupler previously served as Secretary/Treasurer of the Code Council Board.

Ronald E. Piester, Director of the New York Department of State Division of Code Enforcement and Administration, was elected Secretary/Treasurer of the ICC Board. A Certified Code Enforcement Official and Professional Code Administrator, Piester manages a 60-person division that administers and enforces New York's Uniform Fire Prevention and Building Code and State Energy Conservation Construction Code. Piester previously served as a Director on the ICC Board.

Six Elected As Board Directors

Grand County, Utah, Building Official Jeff Whitney was elected to serve as the Section C representative on the Code Council Board. Section C includes the states of Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas, and Utah, and the nation of Mexico. Whitney holds 12 certifications from the Code Council and is Past President of the Utah Chapter of the International Code Council. It's his second term as a Board of Director, but first as a Sectional Director.

Stephen D. Jones, Construction Official for Millburn Township and the Borough of Florham Park, New Jersey, was re-elected to an at-large position on the ICC Board. A Certified Building Official, Jones is responsible for the daily operations of the Millburn Township and Florham Park Borough Building Departments and supervises the department's zoning official and code enforcement officer.

Guy Tomberlin, Code Specialist for the Fairfax County, Virginia, Commercial Inspections Division, also was re-elected to an at-large position on the Code Council Board. A Certified Building Official who has been active in code enforcement since 1985, Tomberlin also has served as a member of the ICC subsidiary International Accreditation Service Board of Directors.

Georgia Assistant State Fire Marshal M. Dwayne Garriss was elected to represent Section F on the ICC Board. Section F includes the states of Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and the Caribbean region. For the past 19 years, Garriss has served as Chairman of the Georgia Fire Safety Symposium and has served as the Safety Fire Commissioner's designee on the State Codes Advisory Committee for the Georgia Department of Community Affairs for the past 15 years.

Alex "Cash" Olszowy, Building Inspection Supervisor for the Lexington Fayette Urban County Government in Kentucky, was elected to an at-large position on the ICC Board. Olszowy is President of the Code Administrators Association of Kentucky (CAAK) and has served for 10 years on the chapter's Board of Directors.

Rhode Island State Building Code Commissioner John "Jack" Leyden was elected to a two-year term on the Code Council Board, filling the seat vacated by Piester when he was elected Secretary/Treasurer. Leyden is a Certified Building Official with the Code Council and the State of Rhode Island, and serves as Executive Secretary of the Rhode Island Building Codes Standards Committee.