It is Trollope's first time on the Orange jury but not her first time chairing a book prize.
(RNS) Fred Luter had a lot of firsts in the last year: first black president of the Southern Baptist Convention; first time chairing the denomination's annual meeting, this week, in Houston; and recently, first-time missionary.
A few minutes earlier, Mikulski noted with shock that, "for the first time as chair, I've eliminated programs".
He also endowed the Kenneth L. Fisher Chair in Redwood Forest Ecology at Humboldt State University, apparently the first time a chair was devoted to a single species of tree.
The next morning, he's sitting for the first time in his chair at the Resolute Desk.
A grandchild's college roommate, encountered for the first time, pulls a chair to sit with her back directly in front of me, cutting me off from the family circle: I don't exist.
Rachel was my client for ten years; we became close, and joked about her first time in my chair.
Almost one in 10 delegates to the convention were LGBT -- over 550 LGBT delegates, representing an increase of nearly 200 from 2008, with every state represented for the first time.The former chair of the LGBT Caucus attributed the increase almost entirely to President Obama's full support of equality.
"My first time in the chair, they tried to get me to walk, so I said right out, 'I can't do it'.
(male, 74) "My first time in the chair, they tried to get me to walk, so I said right out, 'I can't do it'.
