UTUIA Board of Directors Officer Directors Malcolm B. (Mike) Futhey Jr. North Olmsted, Ohio Malcolm B. (Mike) Futhey is the eighth president of the 39-year-old United Transportation Union, whose predecessor roots extend to the 1800s. He was elected in August 2007 and took office Jan. 1, 2008. The UTU has some 125,000 active and retired members employed by freight, passenger and commuter railroads, bus and transit companies and the aviation industry. Futhey also became on Jan. 1, 2008, president of the United Transportation Union Insurance Association, the 135-year-old fraternal benefits association offering a wide-range of life, health, long-term care and annuity policies to UTU members. A career railroader, who began as a trainman in 1971 on the former Missouri Pacific Railroad (now part of Union Pacific), Futhey has served as a UTU International vice president since 1995, and in various other union-elected positions since 1978. For 10 years until 1988, he was the senior-elected UTU officer representing employees of Memphis Union Terminal. Futhey earned a B.A. in history from the University of Memphis, attended the University of Memphis School of Law, and completed courses at the George Meaney Center for Labor Studies in Silver Spring, Md. He is a former member of the Germantown Democratic Club Steering Committee, was active in the Clinton and Gore presidential campaigns, and for 25 years was a youth basketball coach in Germantown. Futhey and his wife, April Taylor Futhey, are both Memphis, Tenn., natives. Arthur Martin III North Olmsted, Ohio Arty Martin, a fourth generation railroader, is assistant president of the United Transportation Union, having taken office Jan. 1, 2008. He began his railroad career in March 1966 on Union Pacific Railroad in Pocatello, Ida., while attending Idaho State University. Earlier, Martin played minor league baseball, including one season in Alaska. Following four years of service in the Air Force, Martin returned to his Union Pacific job in October 1970, and in 1974 earned a bachelor's degree from Idaho State University in business administration, with a minor in labor law. In 1975, Martin was promoted to engineer. Frustration over railroad treatment of employees encouraged him to run successfully for the position of vice local chairman of UTU Local 78 in 1977, representing engineers. He subsequently was elected as vice general chairperson in 1983, and as general chairperson in 1990. In 1992, Martin merged his UTU enginemen general committee with one representing conductors, brakemen and yardmen. Today, that general committee represents more than 5,000 train and engine service employees on the Union Pacific Railroad. Martin's mother and father and grandfather were employed by Union Pacific Railroad, and his great-grandfather ran steam locomotives on the former New York Central Railroad. Martin is married to the former Cindy Johnson of Topeka, Kans. They have four children: two daughters and two sons, the latter two being railroaders. Brian is a conductor/engineer on Union Pacific in Pocatello; and Dallas is a conductor on Union Pacific in Portland. Kim Thompson North Olmsted, Ohio Kim Thompson, general secretary and treasurer of the UTUIA, began his railroad career in 1966 as a brakeman on the Moberly Division of the former Wabash Railroad (later merged into Norfolk & Western Railway, and now part of Norfolk Southern). In 1975, Thompson was elected president and chairperson of UTU Local 226. Thompson was elected to the UTU International's executive board in 1987, and served as board chairman for eight years. In 1995, he was elected first alternate International vice president for the South; and elevated to International vice president in 1997. From 1988 through 1997, Thompson served on the board of the Wabash Memorial Hospital Association. James A. Stem Jr. Washington, D.C. James A. Stem Jr., National Legislative Director of the 125,000-member United Transportation Union was born June 19, 1948 in Raleigh, North Carolina. Stem began his railroad career in 1966 as a trainman for the Seaboard Air Line Railroad in Raleigh and joined the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen. He has worked as a trainman, switchman, hostler helper, hostler, fireman and locomotive engineer and currently holds seniority as a locomotive engineer on CSX between Richmond, Va., and Abbeville, S.C. Stem became interested in the union movement and became active in Local 1129 in Raleigh. He worked part-time as a special UTU organizer from 1973 through 1976 and was elected as secretary-treasurer of Local 1129 in 1975. He has also held the elected positions of local chairman and legislative representative and has served as a delegate to five UTU International Conventions from 1979 to 1995. Stem was elected as North Carolina State Legislative Director in 1984 following the retirement of Woodrow Gunter, and served in that position through September 1999. He was appointed Alternate National Legislative Director following the retirement of Gene Plourd in April 1998 and was reelected to that position at the UTU Conventions in 1999, 2003 and 2007. He was elevated to the office of national legislative director in January 2009 following the death of James M. Brunkenhoefer. Stem is active in the Baptist Church, the Masonic Lodge and the Scottish Rite of Freemasonry. He and his wife Bonnie have two daughters and a son and reside in Alexandria, Virginia. Independent Directors Joyce A. Terbovich, CPA Shawnee Mission, Kansas Joyce A. Terbovich, a Pittsburg State University graduate (1969) with an accounting degree, is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) who practices tax and financial planning, tax preparation, and tax controversy resolution in Kansas and Missouri. She is a member of the Kansas Society of Certified Public Accountants, the Missouri Society of Certified Public Accountants, and treasurer of the City of Lake Quivira. Nicholas J. DiCicco Jr. Orange, Ohio Nicholas J. DiCicco Jr., who has a Bachelor of Science degree from John Carroll University (1955), is a Life Insurance Management and Research Association (LIMRA) Leadership Institute Fellow, a Certified Senior Advisor (CSA), and a Registered Principal with the National Association of Securities Dealers. Nick is the retired President of Midwest Life Insurance Company. Frank J. Riha, CPA Aurora, Ohio Frank J. Riha, holding a Bachelor of Science degree from Kent State University (1962), is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) whose 30 years of experience have been concentrated on the areas of financial reporting and treasury. Frank spent most of his career in accounting and finance for life insurance companies, including as the Chief Financial Officer. He spent five years as an Insurance Examiner Supervisor with the State of Ohio Insurance Department, is a Life Management Institute Fellow, a Certified Financial Examiner, and a member of the Ohio Society of Certified Public Accountants. William J. Thompson Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio William J. Thompson, retired, a former Ohio State Legislative Director and conductor, has been elected to the United Transportation Union Insurance Association Board of Directors following his nomination to the post by the UTUIA board. He is a member of Local 792 at Cleveland, Ohio. Thompson, a member of the UTU Alumni Association, held the posts of assistant Ohio state legislative director and then state legislative director from 1981 through his retirement in 2002. He hired out with the Akron, Canton & Youngstown Railroad in 1961, before it was acquired by Norfolk & Western Railway (now part of Norfolk Southern), and was elected to posts of general chairperson, local chairperson and legislative representative of UTU predecessor Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen Local 432.