It is with tremendous thanks and appreciation that the National Executive Board (NEB) congratulates Gordon Deane on his new position as the Assistant Director of UAW Region 9A.  The NEB thanks him for his over thirty years of inspired leadership and service to the members of NOLSW, UAW Local 2320. Gordon is a leader who started his service to the members of NOLSW as a rank and file member when he worked as a paralegal and shop steward at LSSA in NYC.  He joined the staff of NOLSW as a Regional Organizer in 1985, was elected to the position of Recording Secretary in 2001, and has served most recently as President of NOLSW since his election in 2007. We will miss Gordon’s friendship, his brilliant mind and his financial acumen on a day-to-day basis, but we will continue to benefit from his extraordinary leadership as the Assistant Director of Region 9A.