At its fall board meeting in Scottsdale, AZ last week, NADA elected Charley R. Smith, chairman of the board of Watson Truck & Supply, Inc., in Hobbs, NM as its 2004 chairman. Jack A. Kain, owner of Jack Kain Ford, in Versailles, KY, was elected as NADA’s 2004 vice chairman. Smith and Kain will assume office at NADA’s convention and exposition in Las Vegas in February.
Smith, a new car and truck dealer since 1985, is the association’s 2003 vice chairman. In recent years, he has served as chairman of NADA’s Government Relations and Strategic Planning committees, and vice chairman of the association’s Region IV. Smith has been a member of NADA’s Information Technology, Dealership Operations, Finance, Convention and Industry Relations committees. In addition, he has served on the NADA Insurance Trust Board and on the National Automobile Dealers Charitable Foundation.
In his home state, Smith has been New Mexico chairman of the Dealers Election Action Committee and chairman of the New Mexico Automotive Dealers Association.
Active in community relations, Smith is on the board of the Southwest Symphony and past chairman of the Lea Regional Medical Center Board. He is also a past director of the University of New Mexico Foundation and Industrial Development Corporation of Lea County, NM. A graduate of the University of Missouri, Kansas City, Smith received the Time Magazine Quality Dealer Award in 1995.
Jack A. Kain, a new-car dealer since 1952, is owner of Jack Kain Family Ford, in Versailles, KY, and Kain Family Ford/Lincoln-Mercury, in London, KY. He is NADA’s treasurer, chairman of the Finance Committee, finance chairman of the Dealers Election Action Committee, and Executive Committee liaison and past chairman of the Convention Committee. He also serves on NADA’s Guide Company Committee.
Kain is also a past president of the Kentucky Automobile Dealers Association. He has won Ford Motor Company’s Chairman’s Award ten times. Active in his community, Kain has been chairman of the American Heart Association and director of the Kentucky Chamber of Commerce and St. Joseph’s Hospital in Lexington.
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