NAIC Selects New President-Elect
February 10, 2015 by Arthur D. Postal, arthur.postal@innfeedback.com
WASHINGTON – John M. Huff, Missouri insurance commissioner, has been chosen president-elect by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners.
He succeeds Michael Consedine, who announced Jan. 13 that he had was stepping aside as Pennsylvania insurance commissioner to allow incoming Gov. Tom Wolf to name his own commissioner.
Huff bested Sharon Clark, Kentucky insurance commissioner, in an election held Sunday in a special plenary session at an undisclosed meeting of commissioners in Southern California.
Clark, however, remains vice president. She will succeed Huff in late 2016 under the new succession procedure, according to NAIC officials. The current president is Monica J. Lindeen of Montana.
Huff, a lawyer, has headed the Missouri Department of Insurance, Financial Institutions and Professional Registration since 2009.
Huff was named non-voting member of the new Financial Stability Oversight Council in September 2010, and served two terms before being succeeded last fall by outgoing NAIC president Adam Hamm, of North Dakota.
