NEC® Committee Configuration

At its April 2001 meeting, the NFPA Standards Council voted to approve, in principle, the proposed plan submitted by the NEC® Technical Correlating Committee for reassigning the code-making panel workloads and necessary code-making panel reconfigurations. This reorganization reduces the number of code-making panels from 20 to 19. The following summary of this plan lists the nineteen code-making panel chairs plus the workload assignment for each. An asterisk denotes new panel chair assignments. New workload assignments are denoted by the article number(s) in bold italics.


Code-Making Panel
Chair: John Minick, National Electrical Manufacturers Association
Articles: 80, 90, 100, 110, Annex A

Code-Making Panel 2
Chair: Raymond Weber*, International Association of Electrical Inspectors
Articles: 210, 215, 220, Annex D Examples 1-6

Code-Making Panel 3
Chair: Richard Owen*, International Association of Electrical Inspectors
Articles: 300, 527, 720, 725, 727, 760

Code-Making Panel 4
Chair: James Naughton*, International Brotherhood Electrical Workers
Articles: 225, 230

Code-Making Panel 5
Chair: Ronald Toomer, National Electrical Contractors Association
Articles: 200, 250, 280, 285

Code-Making Panel 6
Chair: Stephen Thorwegen, Jr., National Electrical Contractors Association
Articles: 310, 400, 402, Chapter 9 Tables 5 through 9

Code-Making Panel 7
Chair: Thomas Trainor, International Association of Electrical Inspectors
Articles: 320, 322, 324, 326, 328, 330, 332, 334, 336, 338, 340, 382, 394, 396, 398, Annex E

Code-Making Panel 8
Chair: Julian Burns*, Independent Electrical Contractors Inc.
Articles: 342, 344, 348, 350, 352, 354, 356, 358, 360, 362, 366, 368, 370, 372, 374, 376, 378, 380, 384, 386, 388, 390, 392, Chapter 9 Tables 1 through 4, Annex C

Code-Making Panel 9
Chair: Timothy Croushore, Edison Electric Institute
Articles: 312, 314, 404, 408, 450, 490

Code-Making Panel 10
Chair: James Dollard, Jr., International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
Articles: 240, 780

Code-Making Panel 11
Chair: Wayne Brinkmeyer*, National Electrical Contractors Association
Articles: 430, 440, 460, 470

Code-Making Panel 12
Chair: Charles Trout, National Electrical Contractors Association
Articles: 610, 620, 625, 630, 640, 645, 647, 650, 660, 665, 668, 669, 670, 685, Annex D Examples D9 and D10

Code-Making Panel 13
Chair: Thomas Wood*, National Electrical Contractors Association
Articles: 445, 455, 480, 690, 692, 695, 700, 701, 702, 705

Code-Making Panel 14
Chair: Donald Cook, International Association of Electrical Inspectors
Articles: 500, 501, 502, 503, 504, 505, 510, 511, 513, 514, 515, 516

Code-Making Panel 15
Chair: Donald Talka, Underwriters Laboratories, Inc.
Articles: 517, 518, 520, 525, 530, 540

Code-Making Panel 16
Chair: Stanley Kahn, National Electrical Contractors Association
Articles: 770, 800, 810, 820, 830

Code-Making Panel 17
Chair: Don Jhonson, National Electrical Contractors Association (Formerly CMP 20)
Articles: 422, 424, 426, 427, 680

Code-Making Panel 18
Chair: Michael Ber, Independent Electrical Contractors, Inc.
Articles: 406, 410, 411, 600, 605

Code-Making Panel 19
Chair: Robert McCullough, International Association of Electrical Inspectors
Articles: 545, 547, 550, 551, 552, 553, 555, 604, 675


Joe Tedesco, NEC Consultant