It is bittersweet news to report that Christian Rice, NAAA’s coordinator of government and public relations, is departing NAAA at week’s end. But the upstanding young man is leaving to pursue a most worthwhile endeavor—his law degree at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Va. U.S. News & World Report ranked the University of Virginia law school as the No. 8 law school in the country for 2017. Rice has served in the government relations coordinator position at NAAA since January 2016 and has done a great job assisting the association in its public policy advocacy, communications and public relations services. Please join NAAA in thanking Christian Rice for his NAAA service and in wishing him the best in what will very likely be a most impressive professional career.