The phrase "appoint a chair" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used in the context of designating someone to lead a committee or organization.
Example: "The board decided to appoint a chair to oversee the upcoming project."
Alternatives: "designate a chair" or "select a chairperson."
But the shouting quickly escalated when it came time to appoint a chair of the caucus.
Not surprisingly, it is far from straightforward to appoint a chair with all these skills and experience.
Procedures to be decided upon include determining whether to appoint a chair, how to recognize speakers, and how to adopt, revise, and accept documents.
Even if a facilitator or a mediator is involved, it is helpful to appoint a chair (either of the Executive Committee or of the full assembly).
It followed two failed attempts to appoint a chair with the second choice, Fiona Woolf, a City lawyer, forced to quit after it emerged that she had hosted dinner parties for Lord Brittan.
Can Bradley and her team be relied on to appoint a chair (plus four non-execs for the nations and regions) who play a full part on a cohesive board?
Last time, when Lord Patten got the job in 2011, the whole appointments process appeared to proceed without ever quite resolving matters – were they appointing a chair of the BBC trust or a chair of the BBC? Formally it was chair of the trust but that was plainly never really what Patten saw himself as.
"The responsibility for appointing a chair to the FSA rests with all four health ministers across the UK.
Since 1936 the Trust has always appointed a chair from within – in every case a member of the Scott family or a former Guardian journalist or editor.
Each group takes care of its own internal organisation by appointing a chair or co-chairs, a bureau, and it is also provided with a secretariat.
Each political group care of its own internal organisation by appointing a chair (or two cochairs in the case of some groups), a bureau and a secretariat.
