AONL Announces Results of the 2025 Board Election

AONL members elected Stuart Downs, DNP, RN, as the 2026 president-elect of the AONL Board of Directors. Downs, system chief nurse executive at Northeast Georgia Health System in Gainesville, Ga, will become board president Jan. 1, 2028. He is the lead facilitator of the Coldiron Senior Nurse Executive Fellowship at Case Western Reserve University's Marian K. Shaughnessy Nurse Leadership Academy and serves on the DAISY Foundation Board of Directors. The membership also elected three regional directors to the AONL Board, serving three-year terms starting Jan. 1, 2026: Kim Landers, MS, RN, vice president of patient care services and chief nurse executive, Morris Hospital, Ill. (Region 5); Brennan Lewis, DNP, APRN, senior vice president, nursing excellence, innovation, & patient experience, Children’s Health, Dallas (Region 7); and Dale Beatty, DNP, RN, chief nurse executive and senior vice president, Standford Health Care, Calif. (Region 9). (AONL news release, 8/15/2025)