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Hightower's hiring would run
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USATF BOD member Steve Miller, who is leading the NGB's search for a new CEO, yesterday said that USATF Chair & President Stephanie Hightower "is definitely in the running to get the job," according to Philip Hersh of the CHICAGO TRIBUNE. Miller said, "It is very possible she could become the CEO." He contends that Hightower's candidacy "would not be affected" by the "firestorm that followed" the USOC naming BOD member Stephanie Streeter interim CEO in '09. Last year, the USATF said that "none of its current board members would be candidates for the CEO job opening created by the board's firing of Doug Logan a month earlier." Hersh noted "naming a board member runs counter to new policies the USOC has asked the individual sports federations to follow.” The USOC encourages NGBs “to achieve complete transition of management from volunteers like the board to paid staff,” and to look for “security in the role of CEO.” But there is a "feeling the entire interview process may have been flawed because all potential candidates are aware of Hightower’s interest in the job and may fear she would interfere with the CEO’s ability to run the federation -- thereby compromising the CEO’s security" (
CHICAGOTRIBUNE.com, 5/23).
