AMHS President Elected to NCCA Board

AMHS President Christopher J. Renneker was elected on November 13, 2024, to the Board of Directors of the National Christopher Columbus Association (NCCA) of which the AMHS is an organizational member. His three-year term begins January 1, 2025. Chris works as an examining trademark attorney in the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office located in Alexandria.

Chris succeeds AMHS Secretary Joseph (Sonny) Scafetta Jr., whose three-year term covering 2022 through 2024 ends on December 31, 2024. Sonny is the senior counsel for the intellectual property law firm of Ditthavong, Steiner, & Mlotkowski in Alexandria. Sonny succeeded former AMHS President Maria D’Andrea-Yothers who served a three-year term on the NCCA board from 2019 through 2021. She was the first AMHS officer to have a seat on the NCCA board. Maria is the Director of the Office of Textiles & Apparel for the International Trade Administration in the U.S. Dept. of Commerce. She will retire from that position on December 31, 2024. The NCCA has been responsible since 1995 for coordinating with the National Park Service to put on the annual ceremony at the Columbus statue in front of Union Station in Washington, D.C., on Columbus Day. The NCCA has five officers and 13 directors who represent different member organizations.