Sam H. May retires as International Vice President of the Southeast Section.
Southeast Section to be represented by IVP Fairley
SAM H. MAY retired June 30 as International Vice President of the Southeast Section, a position he has held since July 24, 2003.
May began his career as a Boilermaker in 1969 and joined Local Lodge 454, Chattanooga, Tenn., in 1970. He graduated from the local’s apprentice program in 1973, earning an outstanding apprentice award.
May served Local 454 as recording secretary, vice president, and president. In 1991, he became the local’s business manager, and in 1996 he became business manager/executive secretary for District 57, which encompasses five locals with jurisdiction that covers parts of Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, and North Carolina, and all of South Carolina and Tennessee.
May earned considerable praise for his work on the law committee for the International Consolidated Convention in 1996 and chairmanship of that same committee for the Consolidated Convention in 2001.
On July 24, 2003, he was sworn in as IVP for the Southeast Section to fill the unexpired term of Newton B. Jones and was elected to that position at the 2006 Consolidated Convention.
May also served as a trustee for the Boilermaker-Blacksmith National Pension Trust and for the Boilermakers National Health & Welfare Fund, acting as secretary for both boards.
WARREN FAIRLEY, HAS been elected by the IEC to serve as International Vice President for the Southeast Section and to continue his roles as Executive Assistant to the International President and IVP for the Industrial Sector, a position he has held since Oct. 24, 2007.
Fairley joined Local 693 (Pascagoula, Miss.) in 1990 and worked in the rigging department at Ingalls Shipbuilding. He was elected the local’s business manager in 1996, and became an International Rep at the completion of his term. In 2003 he was made Assistant to the International President and Assistant Director of the Shipbuilding Division. One month later, he was promoted to Deputy Director of that division, and in 2005 became Executive Assistant to the International President and Director of the Shipbuilding & Marine Services Division.
The Southeast Section includes the states of Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Puerto Rico, the Isthmus of Panama, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
