Steering Committee Nomination

The
following is posted on behalf of John Messing:

 

I would like to introduce
and nominate Marc Aronson to the position of at-large member of the LegalXML
Steering Committee.

 

Marc has been an invaluable
member of the eNotary TC and brings vast notarial and land records experience
to LegalXML.

 

Mr. Aronson is President of
the Pennsylvania Association of Notaries (PAN), which was founded in 1972, with
nearly 50,000 members today.

He instructs members of the
American Institute
 of Banking, Pennsylvania
Land Title Association, International Association of Clerks, Recorders,
Election Officials and Treasurers, Mortgage Bankers Association and others on
notary functions. He also serves as President of the United States Notary
Association (USNA), serving all 50 states and the District of Columbia. 

 

He is an active long-time
member of Property Records Industry Association (PRIA), where he serves as the
private sector Co-Chair of the PRIA membership-marketing committee and
convention committee; participant on the governance committee, charged with
maintaining the PRIA by-laws.  He was the private sector co-chair of a PRIA
work group responsible for eNotarization and eRecording, and served on the
American Bar Association's eTrust subcommittee that created the eNotary White
Paper.

 

Mr. Aronson has also been
involved with the Mortgage Industry Standards Maintenance Organization (MISMO)
and is a member and advisor on the development of two important guides, the
MISMO eMortgage Closing Guide and eMortgage Guide.

 

He also is a participant in
the organization known as Standards and Procedures for Electronic Records and
Signatures. (SPeRS). 

 

Within the Enotary TC, he
acts as an informal notary procedures and notary law advisor.

 

He is a member of the
National Association of Secretaries of State

(NASS) Notary Public
Administrators (NPA) Committee. At the 2006 NASS Conference he spoke to the NPA
Committee on the status of the eNotarization Initiative in Pennsylvania.

 

In 2003 Mr. Aronson was the
only American notary, and notary association representative, present at the
Special Commission of the Hague Conference on Private  International Law at The Hague, The
Netherlands.

This conference concentrated
on electronic commerce, electronic notarization and the potential problems of
authenticating electronically notarized documents sent from one country to
another. 

For two years, Mr. Aronson
was an active participant as an official observer of a drafting committee of
the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws (NCCUSL). The
resultant work, entitled the Uniform Real Property Electronic Recording Act
(URPERA) has been adopted by a number of states, numbers of which are steadily
increasing. He also was the driving force behind the effort to form a drafting
committee to consider a rewrite of the 1982 Uniform Law on Notarial Acts
(ULONA). This committee expects to have its' first conference call in early
2008.

 

I think Marc Aronson brings
a wealth of experience and knowledge to the Steering Committee.

 

Regards,

John Messing

 

 

 

Mark
Ladd

Addison/One,
LLC

262-498-0850