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Mary-Helene Brown
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Arizona
Desert Valley DPC
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Patty Huling
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Arizona
Tucson DPC
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Kathy Daily
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Arizona
Tucson DPC
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Nancy Jewell
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California
DPC of Northern California
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Bellinda Rossmiller
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California
DPC of Northern California
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Sue Boynton
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California
DPC of Sacramento
Delegate
Adrian Woodfork
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California
DPC of Sacramento
Secretary
Joelle Jacobs
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California
DPC of Southern California
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Gwen Lucoff
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California
DPC of Southern California
Secretary
Laurie Johnson
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California
Los Angeles DPC Inc
Delegate
Trevor Gerardi Miller
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California
Los Angeles DPC Inc
Secretary
Martha Logan
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California
Redwood Empire DPC
Delegate
James Barron
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California
Redwood Empire DPC
Secretary
Pat Adlerson
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Colorado
DPC of The Rocky Mt Area
Delegate
Erica Tate
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Colorado
DPC of The Rocky Mt Area
Secretary
Bonnie Guzman
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Florida
DPC of Florida
Delegate
Eric Glofka
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Florida
DPC of Florida
Secretary
Paula Dempsey
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Florida
North Florida DPC
Delegate
Mike Parker
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Florida
North Florida DPC
Secretary
Karen Cloud
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Georgia
Atlanta DPC
Delegate
Jennifer Stancil
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Georgia
Atlanta DPC
Secretary
Ann Wilson
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Illinois
Illini DPC
Delegate
Kimberly Mckim
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Illinois
Illini DPC
Secretary
Debbie Lesnic
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Indiana
DPC of Indiana
Delegate
Jon Williams
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Indiana
DPC of Indiana
Secretary
Linda McCammack
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Iowa
DPC of Greater Des Moines
Delegate
Stacy Sims
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Iowa
DPC of Greater Des Moines
Secretary
Stacy Sims
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Kansas
DPC of Central Kansas
Delegate
Maria Ciski
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Kansas
DPC of Central Kansas
Secretary
Tammy Rush
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Kansas
DPC of Greater Kansas City
Delegate
Lisa Smith
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Kansas
DPC of Greater Kansas City
Secretary
Angie Tucker
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Maine
Pine Tree State DPC
Delegate
Kathy Farley
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Maine
Pine Tree State DPC
Secretary
Marianne Quinn
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Maryland
Metropolitan Baltimore DPC
Delegate
Linda Coggins
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Maryland
Metropolitan Baltimore DPC
Secretary
Julie Waples
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Massachusetts
Pilgrim DPC
Delegate
Ryan Lane
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Massachusetts
Pilgrim DPC
Secretary
Sonja Capasso
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Michigan
DPC of Detroit
Delegate
Heidi Boettcher
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Michigan
DPC of Detroit
Secretary
Christine Ludwig
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Michigan
DPC of Michigan
Delegate
Melissa Conrad Chase
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Michigan
DPC of Michigan
Secretary
Claudia Dahlerus
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Minnesota
Greater Twin Cities DPC
Delegate
Nancy Troyer
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Minnesota
Greater Twin Cities DPC
Secretary
Teresa Orpen
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Missouri
DPC of Missouri Inc
Delegate
Mary Jane Ladd
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Missouri
DPC of Missouri Inc
Secretary
Mary Jane Ladd
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Nevada
DPC of Reno
Delegate
Joseph Smith
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Nevada
DPC of Reno
Secretary
Carol Pion
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New Jersey
Quaker City DPC
Delegate
Susan Kershaw
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New Jersey
Quaker City DPC
Secretary
Jane Barcus
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New York
DPC of Tappan Zee
Delegate
Marti Kalko
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New York
DPC of Tappan Zee
Secretary
Marylyn DeGregorio
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North Carolina
DPC of Charlotte Inc
Delegate
Tamra Rabold
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North Carolina
DPC of Charlotte Inc
Secretary
Gail McGinnis
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Ohio
DPC of Columbus Ohio
Delegate
Colby Homer
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Ohio
DPC of Columbus Ohio
Secretary
Briana Gruenberg
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Ohio
Lakeshore DPC
Delegate
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Ohio
Lakeshore DPC
Secretary
Ron Huber
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Ohio
Miami Valley DPC
Delegate
Carol Moore
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Ohio
Miami Valley DPC
Secretary
Lisa Monfort
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Oklahoma
DPC of Indian Nations Inc
Delegate
Sharon Casey
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Oklahoma
DPC of Indian Nations Inc
Secretary
Kay Backues, DVM DACZM
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Oregon
Mt. Hood DPC
Delegate
Kristina Sanders
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Oregon
Mt. Hood DPC
Secretary
Martha Machuca
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Pennsylvania
Long Island DPC
Delegate
Kathy Gregory
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Pennsylvania
Long Island DPC
Secretary
Joe Guinta
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Tennessee
DPC of Nashville
Delegate
Karen Mundy
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Tennessee
DPC of Nashville
Secretary
Sarah Blair
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Texas
DPC of Dallas
Delegate
Jan Stephenson
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Texas
DPC of Dallas
Secretary
Dorette Warms
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Texas
DPC of Houston
Delegate
Sylvia Velez
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Texas
DPC of Houston
Secretary
Cindy Case
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Texas
Greater Austin DPC
Delegate
Micaela Escobar
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Texas
Greater Austin DPC
Secretary
Micaela Escobar
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Utah
Salt Lake DPC
Delegate
Marsha Sheppard
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Utah
Salt Lake DPC
Secretary
Marsha Sheppard
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Virginia
Cavalier DPC
Delegate
Amanda Florakis
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Virginia
Cavalier DPC
Secretary
Dawn Lawyer
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Washington
Puget Sound DPC
Delegate
Elaine Hopper
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Washington
Puget Sound DPC
Secretary
Rachel Martinez
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Wisconsin
DPC of Greater Milwaukee Inc
Delegate
Laura Plasketes
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Wisconsin
DPC of Greater Milwaukee Inc
Secretary
Laurie Gott
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Chapter Club Education
Vicki Seiler-Cushman, Judges Education Chairperson
[email protected]
DPCA through Judges Education has developed an excellent team of seminar presenters, mentors and instructors to add an important new dimension to breed awareness and your Specialties.
DPCA now requires Doberman Chapter Clubs to conduct an educational event once a year. This communication is sent to provide you with the support your club needs to meet this worthwhile goal.
As chairman of Chapter Club Education I am responsible for providing the advertising and publicity and coordinating the appearance of mentors, instructors – presenters.
1) Your club incurs no expense for mentors or instructor- presenters, advertising and travel as we use local authorities. Your club may incur expenses for duplicating handout material and possibly for providing AV equipment.
2) Your club determines the date and time of the event with the understanding no other events will be held in conflict with the seminar. We strongly recommend the seminar be scheduled after BISS judging. If judging begins at noon, you may wish to consider starting the seminar at 10 AM.
3) Your club selects from a menu of three two-hour presentations.
Judges Education Workshop. * Judging is a process of prioritizing positives and penalizing deviations while applying the standard, which is constant.
Workshop Agenda
0 – 10 minutes – Breed History.
20-40 minutes – Master the Standard
40-80 minutes – Four Stations: Heads, Structure, Gait and Temperament
80-120 minutes – ‘You Be the Judge’. Compare your evaluations with DPCA mentor/experts.
Breeders Education Workshop. * Topics include Breed History. Master the Standard. Genetic Strategy. Choosing the breeding pair. Care of the bitch. Whelping. Feeding. Ears.
Litter socialization. Early Training. (Leash and housebreaking)
Temperament testing. Matching puppy with new owner. Show home? If possible someone to provide a litter for group evaluation (takes a lot of courage). If not consider video or photos.
Q&A
Exhibitors Education Workshop. * Show training is a major challenge especially as positive attitude and temperament can be reinforced. One on one ‘hands-on’ demonstrates proper techniques for show training. Topics include. How judges see your dog. Chronology of training (puppy to special). Prepare your dog for competition, mentally, physically and nutritionally. Positive attitude and temperament. Mechanics of stress free show training.
Hands-on clinic – individual instruction.
*All registered students
Receive a recommended list of home study articles to be downloaded from the DPCA JEC and Breeders web sites. Partial list includes: ‘A Judges Perspective’, ‘In Defense of Judges Education’, ‘Breed Trends’. ‘Gait ‘. ‘Ears – Cropping and Maintenance’. ‘Temperament’. ‘Structure’. ‘How to Raise a Healthy, Happy, Confident Puppy.’ Illustrated Commentary.
Mentoring of registrants by DPCA approved mentors at a ringside, reserved area.
Advertising (if we have 90 days lead time)
1) A full page ad and flyer will be prepared with your approval for use in the premium list and the judging program and for e-mailing to local all breed clubs. If there is time perhaps an announcement ad can be placed in Pipeline, DD and / or DQ and on the Chapter Club web site. And also on the Chapter Club’s Specialty site.
2) A publicity release combining your specialty event with the educational program for release on Cyberdobes, Showdobes. The judge’s event will require a separate release for judges list. If there is time we can release to Gazette, Pipeline DD and DQ.
3) Please note the promotion for the judge’s and the fancy require different advertising approaches.
The program developed above will increase interest and attendance and should increase entries. The club must identify the area at the show site where the ‘classroom’ can be located. Other decisions involve registration fee, refreshments and a possible tie in with entrants. It may be a good idea to consider charging a $25 seminar fee but allow all Dobe entrants a 50% discount or perhaps a straight $10 discount. This will accomplish two things. It will make the entry more attractive and generate a good attendance for the workshop. Fee for AKC judges might be $10. Something to think about.
Traveling around the country doing Doberman and AKC Institute seminars I had an opportunity to observe what makes a great workshop. Besides enthusiasm and knowledge of the breed, audience participation such as hands on, you be the judge and a lively q & a, make the difference. DPCA has the talent and the desire to make it work. The only ingredient needed to bring it all together is you.
It begins with your assigning someone who is comfortable with e-mail and .pdf (Adobe acrobat files) and providing me with their name and e-mail address. Once we have established communications you can decide which event you wish to schedule at what specialty. It would be beneficial to our breed if you would schedule an educational event at each specialty, rotating the menu. But that is all up to you.
We will coordinate all events so there is no duplication where there is geographical exposure.
I am enclosing an article, which will be part of the breeder’s kit. You may wish to share it with your members. Please have a computer capable coordinator from your club contact me.
Sincerely
Vicki-Seiler Cushman, chairman
Chapter Club Education for JEC
[email protected]
Re: Summing up Chapter Club Education.
From: Faye Strauss previous Chairman
For those of you still unaware of the program each club has three seminars to choose from: Judges, Exhibitors and Breeders. We have developed a crack team of seminar presenters, mentors and instructors who are in your area. The clubs do not pay any fees or expenses for our team. Outside of some nominal amount for handouts, clubs will not incur any expense. The benefits are many:
1. new dimensions to breed awareness (sign up new members)
2. extra publicity for your show
3. positive involvement by your members
4. chapter clubs can charge a seminar fee and also provide a discount to exhibitors.
5. coordination of advertising, publicity and internet provided by me.
How do you get started:
1. assign someone from your club who is comfortable with e-mail
2. select a date and topic
3. confirm local presenters
4. and you are ready to go.
I recently attended the Exhibitor Education seminar at Puget Sound. Michelle Santana was the presenter assisted by Elaine Hopper and others. It was well attended and the response was excellent. It is my fervent hope that all of you will sign up and get involved.
Michelle Santana noted several ways to improve attendance.
1. Schedule the event with no conflicts such as judges dinner.
2. The announcement of the event MUST appear in the premium list, the judging schedule communication to exhibitors.
3. The club should make the announcement in their club communications.
4. Flyers at host club table.
5. PA system should announce the seminar three times during the judging.
Michelle said, “The Puget sound event response was excellent.” The President of the Detroit club told me he was receiving good response to the publicity.
Every chapter club is urged to schedule an event.
Please contact me.
Chapter Club Forms
Chapter Club Subsidy Application
Chapter Club renewal via PayPal/Credit card
Chapter Club 2021 renewals are now closed
Application for Specialty Show
DPCA Medallion Order Form
Check list of what DPCA must have on file for all Chapter Clubs
Specialty Show Tracking Sheet
Regional Hosting Guidelines and Application (rev May 2021)
Annual Electronic Filing Requirements for Small Exempt Organizations Form 990-N
990 Form
Guidestar link to past 990 forms
Chapter Club Q&A
Q:
Are chapter clubs required to hold at least 1 independent specialty each year?
A:
Chapter clubs are required to hold a specialty show every year it can be an independent specialty or a designated specialty or supported entry.
Q:
Are clubs required to give a silver medallion for BOB and a bronze medallion to the breed judge or is this just a suggestion?
A:
The DPCA offers a best-of-breed, high in trial, and high in trial agility medallion to each chapter club for each specialty show in addition if you have Best Junior handler you can get a best Junior medallion. These have to be ordered using the medallion order form in the chapter club forms area. These are free to the clubs so it doesn’t make sense not to order them especially when people expect to get this when they win.
The judges medallions are $30 apiece and those are given at the discretion of the club. We think it’s important to give these to Doberman Judges.
Q:
How many WAE are required?
A:
Every chapter club needs to do a WAE test every three years. The Northern California clubs and all five clubs in Ohio do this every year together so all clubs get credit. Just need to have three club members minimum from each club to help put on the event to get credit. New this year is smaller clubs being able to put on the WAE at the nationals. If a club wants to do that you need to have three members there and contact the national show coordinating folks. I know Las Vegas is helping out putting it on this year because they can’t fire a gun at their show site.
Q:
How many education programs are clubs required to do each year? Any specific types?
A:
The AKC has a requirement that each club that has a show event has to do an educational events during the year. If you go to club requirements on the AKC website they will list qualifying educational events. Some suggestions are having a meet the breeds booth at an all breed show or another dog events, having a guest lecture covering a topic like cardiomyopathy, grooming, how to put on a Holter monitor, what dog shows are about, an outline of obedience events or juniors pretty much anything. You need to invite the public and some other dog clubs in your area to these events. Last year we had a veterinary cardiologist lecture on cardiomyopathy diagnosis and drug treatment and invited our local Boxer club to join us. This year we just had a demonstration of how to apply a Holter monitor using a service Doberman who could come into our local restaurant where we hold our meetings. We’re also planning a demonstration of dog grooming and nail trimming and ear taping at one of our members homes.
Q:
Do you have any data that shows how many chapter clubs still have independent specialties vs designated vs supported? Have you heard any feedback from clubs (good or bad) that have done this? Some of our members want to replace our independent specialty with a designated specialty. Some members feel it may have long term negative consequences for the club and the breed.
A:
I lean towards staying independent so you have your own event number however some clubs are so small that joining an all breed club and being a designated specialty works better. If you’re part of an all breed you usually have to pick up their panel and can’t bring in specifically Doberman judges or provisional Doberman judges but sometimes with limited resources and people that’s the only way to get it done.
Chapter Club Approval Process for Non-Approved Judges
The DPCA Board has been receiving an increased number of requests for Non-approved judges to judge Chapter Club specialties. To assist you in planning your Specialty Shows, this covers the steps required to gain approval for an applicant under the AKC Non-approved Judge guidelines.
A Parent Breed Club may recommend to the AKC that individuals who are not approved AKC judges be allowed to judge a point giving AKC event. There are several steps to the process of being approved.
Step 1:
The requesting Chapter Club submits the AKC application for a Non-approved judge to the DPCA Board. Please submit the application to
[email protected]
so that the request may be added to a Board Meeting agenda.
Step 2:
If the Board approves the request, the application is signed by the DPCA President and forwarded to AKC Judging operations
Step 3:
AKC Judging Ops reviews the applications submitted by the Parent Breed Club and determines whether the applicant should be afforded the opportunity to judge. It can take 45 days for this review to occur based on when the application is submitted
Step 4:
If approved by the AKC, the individual is notified to submit a fee and take the required AKC judging tests
Step 5:
Once the applicant takes and passes the tests, the applicant and the DPCA are notified that they are approved to judge the event applied for.
It is important to note that the application is specific to a single event and an individual may not judge more than one event per year. An application must be made for any subsequent events, even if the person being requested has already been approved in a previous year.
Please allow sufficient time for the application process. It has taken some of the applicants several months to complete the required tests. This process does not lend itself to a last-minute request. For your convenience, the AKC application form may be downloaded from
AKC Judging Operations recommends that Parent Breed Clubs establish eligibility criteria for those individuals being recommended for these judging opportunities. The DPCA Board established the following eligibility criteria for Non Approved Judges:
Non approved judges for Chapter Club Specialties must meet the following criteria prior to being submitted for Board approval:
1. Must be a DPCA Member in good standing and in good standing with the AKC
2. 20 years of experience as a Doberman breeder
3. Current JEC Mentor or Attended a JEC Breed Seminar within the last 3 years
4. Has bred 30 AKC Doberman Champions
5. Has judged at least 3 sweepstakes assignments or personally exhibited (handled) at least 10 Dobermans to an AKC Championship title.
Completed applications for a Non-approved judge should be emailed to the DPCA President so that the request may be added to a Board Meeting agenda. Please send the request directly to the current President at
[email protected]
The Board meets the second Tuesday of the month, so please plan accordingly.
If you have any questions or need assistance, please contact either DPCA President at
[email protected]
or DPCA 2nd VP for Chapter Club Affairs
[email protected]
Chapter Club National Meeting Minutes
The minutes of the Chapter Club National meetings are available in the Members Only section of this website.