Meet the Candidates for the Board of Directors of ACCA

At the Allegheny City Central Association General Membership Meeting that will take place on Monday, October 14th, a Special Election will be held to vote for individuals who have been nominated for the ACCA Board of Directors.

Two nominations have been made: Max Joffe and Richard Thompson. If elected to the Board in this Special Election, both will hold this position until the next General Election in May 2025.

Take some time to learn more about each of the candidates:

Max Joffe

Max Joffe moved to Pittsburgh and the Mexican War Streets in 2021 to take a faculty position at the University of Pittsburgh. Max is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and leads a preclinical neuroscience lab aimed at identifying new treatments for addiction. Max’s wife also works at Pitt and is helping to start a new initiative on data science.

Max and his wife have two young children. Their older son is in his second year of PreK at the Pittsburgh Public School’s Children’s Museum Early Childhood Program. They hope their daughter will start there next fall.

Max’s main interests in working with ACCA are in safety, schools, and development.

Dick Thompson

Dick Thompson recently retired from Allegheny Health Network where he led the system’s Construction, Real Estate and Facility Maintenance programs for the last seven years.

Dick went to high school in Upper St. Clair before attending the United States Military Academy. He received a bachelor’s degree in engineering and served as an engineer officer in the U.S. Army for 29 years, retiring in 2007 as a Colonel. Following military retirement, he worked at City of Hope, a cancer specialty hospital and research facility in southern California, before returning to Pittsburgh in 2014.

Dick had been a member of the ACCA Board of Directors since 2022, where he had also served as Treasurer. Dick and his wife Cindy have lived on Arch Street since 2016.