District Leadership Committee (DLC)
The District Leadership Committee’s (DLC) is responsible for ensuring the long-term success of the District by nominating candidates for the leadership roles of the District. Through an open process, the committee seeks out potential candidates, interviews and evaluates them, and finally submits nominated candidates for election at the District’s Annual Meeting of the District Council.
All candidates declaring for a 2025-2026 District Leadership role should declare their intent to run to Past District Director Danielle Derrick, DTM who is serving as the current District Leadership Chair, no later than February 28, 2025 by completing the forms under Required Forms tab (click on PDF to open the forms) and submitting them to: dlc@district36.org
The 2024-2025 DLC Report, and the list of nominated and floor candidates for 2025-2026 leadership roles, will be available in the 2024-2025 DLC Report tab below.
The 2024-2025 DLC will complete its work in March. The final DLC report, along with the nominated and floor candidates for 2025-2026 District 6 Leadership positions will be listed below. Please review the report and candidates as you prepare for the Annual Meeting of the District Council, which will be held online on April 12, 2025 from 9:00am – 12:00pm CDT. Please see the District Council page for details when they become available. Candidates will need to submit the official Candidate Application Form, the Nomination Form, and the Officer Agreement and Release Form to the District Leadership chair by the application deadline. Download the forms by clicking on the PDF link. Candidates running from the floor, please read the section Floor Candidates , below. Below is the list of helpful links for reference purpose, not required for submission. Contact DLC Chair for more information. District Leadership Committee
2024 - 2025 DLC Report
Required Forms
Helpful Forms
District Leadership Committee Schedule
(NOTE: Based on revised Toastmasters International policy section 9.0)
Date
- By November 1, 2024
- November 1, 2024
- December 1, 2024
- February 28, 2025
- March 01, 2025
- March 15, 2025
- April 5, 2025
- April 12, 2025
- July 15, 2025
Action
- District Director appoints DLC Chair
- Formal call for candidate declarations (via email and Social Media).
- DLC committee formed. Approved by District Director
- Deadline for candidates to declare intent to run and seek DLC nomination.
- DLC Chair submits DLC report to District Director (6 weeks before District Council meeting).
- Last day to publish DLC nominations (4 weeks before District Council meeting).
- Last day to submit floor nominations to District Director.
- Annual Meeting of the District Council
- Deadline to submit Officer Agreement and Release Statements and District Leader rosters to WHQ.
Appointed Positions
Please check our Openings page to learn more about the positions and apply for 2025-2026 Area Directors and District Chairs.
Floor Candidates
- All floor candidates are required to declare their intent to run for election at least one (1) week (7 days) before the meeting. Floor candidates may only run for positions the DLC did not nominate the required number of candidates for.
- If a position is invalid, all qualified candidates for that position must declare their intent to run as a floor candidate seven (7) days prior to the election. For example, if the required number of candidate(s) is not nominated, that position of the report is invalid. Therefore, any qualified candidate may run from the floor.
- No nominations from the floor will be allowed during the council meeting.