National Volunteer Fire Council (NVFC) Chairman Philip C. Stittleburg has been elected to his first term as Chair of the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) Board of Directors. He has served as First Vice Chair of the NFPA for the past two years. The election results were announced today at the 2012 NFPA Conference and Expo in Las Vegas, NV.

Stittleburg is currently serving his sixth two-year term as Chairman of the NVFC. He has been Fire Chief at the LaFarge (WI) Fire Department since 1977, serves on the Board of Directors of the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation (NFFF), is a past-President of the NVFC Foundation, and has represented the NVFC on several NFPA standards-setting committees including NFPA 1500. Stittleburg is also a partner in the law firm of Jenkins and Stittleburg, and serves as legal counsel to the NVFC, the Wisconsin State Firefighters Association, and the LaFarge Fire Department.

For more information, visit www.nvfc.org or www.nfpa.org.