Mitchell Garner is the former President of the Road Runners Club of America (RRCA). Following his election to the USATF Board of Directors in a special election in 2019, in 2020 he was elected to a full four-year term on the board. Garner represents the 5-C organizations: RRCA, National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), Running USA, National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA), National Federation of State High School Associations (NFHS), and National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA). Garner has been involved in running-related board governance since 2004 and is passionate about using one’s talents in service to others. His motto is, “Service is the rent we pay for the privilege of living on this earth.” From 2004 to 2019, he was a member of the Ann Arbor Track Club’s Board of Directors, serving as Vice President from 2004 to 2008 and as President from 2009 to 2018. In 2008, he was elected to the RRCA’s Board of Directors, serving as Central Region Director from 2008 to 2012. In 2012, he was elected RRCA Vice President and served two terms. In 2016, he was elected RRCA President, completing his second and final term as President in March 2020. Garner graduated cum laude from Yale University in 1971 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics. During his junior year at Yale, he studied political science, economics, and history at the Institute of Political Studies at the University of Paris in Paris, France, from which he received a Certificate of Political Studies with Honors in June 1970. At Yale, he was a member of the Yale Political Union and the Yale Glee Club. He also was a member of the Yale Freshman Baseball Team (infielder) in 1968 and Yale Heavyweight Crew (coxswain) in 1971. In 1975, he received his Juris Doctor from Loyola University of Chicago School of Law. He was a member of the Loyola University of Chicago Law Journal and served as Associate Editor of the Law Journal in his third year. From 1975 to 1976, Garner was a judicial law clerk to Justice Francis S. Lorenz of the Illinois Appellate Court. From 1976 to January 1983, he served as an Assistant State’s Attorney for the Cook County State’s Office in Chicago, Illinois. As a prosecutor, he tried numerous bench and jury trials. In 1983, Garner left the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office and went into private practice, specializing in the area of employee benefits as legal counsel to the sponsors of various types of employee benefit plans. In that capacity, he attended over 1,000 nonprofit board meetings, advising board members on a wide range of legal compliance and fiduciary matters. Effective January 1, 2020, he retired as a Principal at the law firm of Allotta | Farley in Toledo, Ohio but remains with the firm in an Of Counsel position.