2025 AMHA Board of Director Candidates & Ballot Information

Dear Members:

The American Morgan Horse Association is pleased to announce the following slate of candidates for our 2025 election which will be held at our Annual Meeting of Members at the Cherry Valley Hotel (2299 Cherry Valley Rd SE, Newark, Ohio 43055), on Friday, March 7, 2025 at 10 a.m. (Eastern time). 

Eastern Region (1 position) 

• Ashleigh Wood - Waltham, MA (incumbent)
• Michael Foy - Kingston, NH

Central Region (1 position) 

• Cathy Blackburn - Oklahoma City, OK

Western Region (1 position) 

• Sharon Boyce Bender - Santa Clara, CA (incumbent)

You may read their biographies, pages 7-8 from The Network Fall/Winter 2024, HERE. 

To administer our 2025 election, AMHA has partnered with Survey & Ballot Systems (SBS).  

Our election is a hybrid election which means that both paper ballots and electronic ballots will be provided to AMHA members eligible to vote. Paper ballots will be mailed to members in good standing at the address of record on file AND electronic ballots will be e-mailed to members in good standing to the e-mail address on file on or around, Monday, January 13, 2025. Members will be allowed to vote EITHER with a paper ballot in the mail OR an electronic ballot online; or may vote in person or by proxy at the AMHA Annual Meeting of Members on March 7, 2025 in Newark, Ohio. In the event that multiple ballots are received from or on behalf of a member, the final ballot cast will be counted. 

SBS will send an email to you with your private codes to access and submit your ballot electronically if desired. To make sure this email lands safely in your inbox, please add this email address to your contacts as an approved sender: noreply@directvote.net. Your email should arrive on or around Monday, January 13, 2025. If it does not appear, please check your SPAM folder. 

Please remember that AMHA Bylaw 2.13 requires that each Region cast a minimum of 100 ballots to establish a quorum and validate the election. So even if your Region has only one person running for a position, AMHA still NEEDS YOUR VOTE! 

Should you have questions or need assistance with your ballot, contact Carrie Mortensen at execdir@morganhorse.com

Thank you! And, please be sure to vote! 

For more informtion on the Annual Meeting, click HERE.