Runoff Election Results for NATCA President and Executive Vice President
Today, the National Election Committee (NEC) oversaw the counting of the ballots to determine the results of the two runoff races for President and Executive Vice President. The NEC’s report of election will be finalized tomorrow; however, the NEC can announce the results of the election.
The rules for NATCA elections require that any candidate for the NEB receives a majority of the votes cast to win. No candidate for President or Executive Vice President met this threshold at the original ballot count on July 30. For these races, a runoff election between the two candidates that received the most votes was held.
The runoff for President was between Nick Daniels and Rich Santa. The runoff for Executive Vice President was between Mick Devine and Jamaal Haltom.
The winning candidates are as follows:
- President: Nick Daniels
- Executive Vice President: Mick Devine
The term for the President and Executive Vice President begins on Nov. 4.
Below is biographical information for NATCA’s new President and Executive Vice President.
President: Nick Daniels
Nick Daniels has served on the National Executive Board (NEB) as the NATCA Southwest Regional Vice President since 2021. In his twenty-one-year FAA career, he spent the last nineteen years at Fort Worth Center (ZFW); after two years at Dallas-Addison ATCT (ADS). Leadership roles Daniels held at ZFW include Area Rep at ZFW (2007-2011), Secretary (2011-2013), Vice President (2013-2015), and three terms as Facility Representative (2015-2021).
Daniels has held many other regional positions, including Labor Relations, Training Review Board, and Onboarding Representative. Nationally, he served on the National Training Committee (including the Chair of the Committee), the Information and Technology Committee, the Union Synergy Committee, the Grievance Review Team, and the Collaborative Resource Workgroup. He has been a NATCA Academy Instructor for seven years, primarily teaching Representative Training.
Executive Vice President: Mick Devine
Mick Devine previously served as New England Regional (NNE) Vice President (RVP), a position he was first elected to in 2018. Devine’s first elected position in NATCA was as the Boston ATCT (BOS) local secretary. In January 2015, he was elected as the BOS FacRep and served for three terms. Mick also served as the New England Alternate RVP from January 2017 to January 2018.
Devine attended the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and majored in mechanical engineering. In 1996, he joined the United States Marine Corps and served with distinction as an aerial navigator in the KC-130. He flew in combative airspace over Northern Iraq and Kosovo in 1999 and 2000. After discharge in 2001, Mick attended Columbia University from 2002-2004, majoring in applied mathematics and combinatorics.
Mick was born in Brooklyn, N.Y. and was raised in Nassau County, Long Island. He currently lives in Londonderry, N.H., with his wife Kelly Devine, who is also a NATCA member and a controller at Boston ATCT (BOS) and their four children (Bella, Ely, Mickey, and Katie).
