Jim Palmquist
Jim Palmquist (Board Member since 2023) is the Treasurer of the American Humanist Association. He has had a domestic/international management career in four industries. He also served as an Adjunct Professor in Marketing at Temple University Graduate School of Business and the University of West Florida, as an Instructor at Penn State University and as Executive-in-Residence at the University of Tennessee twice. His other teaching experience includes culture change educating in the quality improvement movement, spreading facilitation skills to advance corporate profitability and dozens of adult programs in the community. Jim served on the Board of Directors of a Health Maintenance Organization for 11 years. He holds a Commercial Pilots License and Instrument Rating in fixed wing aircraft and helicopters, and flew off Navy aircraft carriers as a rescue helicopter pilot. He was the State President of AARP Pennsylvania for five years and has been recognized for his leadership work by American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania. Jim is a Board member of Lehigh Valley Humanists. Jim was arrested for civil disobedience in Cleveland, protesting the United Methodist Church stand against marriage equality and gay ordination and serves on a nonprofit board in that cause, Affirmation United Methodist. Jim has done 84 lobbing sessions with Congressional and legislative office holders and continues to lobby often. Jim has traveled to 29 countries on six continents and enjoys international travel. He has been a Humanist since 2013. He lives with his wife in the Lehigh Valley, has three adult children and five grandchildren.