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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://git.k8s.io/steering/backlog.md
+[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