Rhonda Ross Appointed NISO Treasurer for 2025–27 Term

July 8, 2025 – Baltimore, MD – The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) is pleased to announce that Rhonda Ross, Chief of Staff at CAS, a division of the American Chemical Society, has been appointed NISO Treasurer for the 2025–27 term. Jonathan Clark (Principal, Consultant and Managing Agent, The DOI Foundation) made the appointment shortly after transitioning to his new role as Chair of the NISO Board on July 1. 

Ross has served as a NISO board member since 2019. In accepting the new appointment, she fills the role formerly held by Wayne Strickland (Director, National Technical Information Service), from 2021–25. We thank him for his service. 

"I am delighted that Rhonda has agreed to take on the Treasurer role for NISO,” said Clark. “Rhonda and I served together on the NISO Audit Committee, and over the years I have come to know just how committed she is to strong financial stewardship. She brings 10 years of experience working for the VP, Finance for CAS together with a deep strategic perspective on the information world.”

“I’ve long valued that NISO provides a global forum where everyone is welcomed to actively participate in creating a shared vision for a better future,” noted Ross. “This strong sense of community inspires collaborative solutions that benefit us all.”

Full information about the current NISO Board can be found at https://www.niso.org/what-we-do/directory/board-members.

About NISO

Based in Baltimore, MD, NISO’s mission is to build knowledge, foster discussion, and advance authoritative standards development through collaboration among the cultural, scholarly, scientific, and professional communities. To fulfill this mission, NISO engages with libraries, publishers, information aggregators, and other organizations that support learning, research, and scholarship through the creation, organization, management, and curation of knowledge. NISO works with intersecting communities of interest and across the entire life cycle of information standards. NISO is a not-for-profit association accredited by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI). For more information, visit the NISO website (https://niso.org) or contact us at nisohq@niso.org.