The Academy of Life Underwriting (ALU) is staffed by 64 volunteers—62 professional underwriters, most with many years of experience, and two talented medical directors. All of them can serve because of support provided by the companies for whom they work. These volunteers produce the educational program specifically designed for the professional home office underwriter.

They develop and maintain current and appropriate courses of study for use in underwriting education. In addition, they prepare and administer the ALU exams which test students’ underwriting knowledge. In the area of continuing education, the committee members provide several webinars annually which provide training on underwriting topics and they also facilitate an annual underwriting forum which provides a venue for senior underwriting personnel to discuss topics of interest.

The 2021-2022 ALU Board of Directors:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The 2021-2022 ALU Executive Group:

The 2021-2022 ALU Coordinators are:

ALU 101	ALU 201
Sabrina Porter, FALU, FLMI, ACS	Debbie Dias, FALU, FLMI, ARA, BA
Swiss Re	Canada Life Reinsurance
ALU 202	ALU 301
Marcel Padilla, FALU, FLMI, FLHC, ACS, MBA	Sandy Jenum, FALU, CLU, HIA, RICP
iA Financial Group	Riversource Life Insurance Company
MRAP 2
Roberta Scott, FALU, FLMI, ACS
Woodmen Life

There have been 15 presidents of the Education Committee. The past ALU presidents are:

• Art Taylor (1974)
• Ben Currier (1977)
• Bill Phillips (1980)
• Bob Hale (1983)
• Dale Johnson (1987)
• Joe Dahl (1990)
• Barb Lutz (1993)
• Gloria Flattum (1996)
• Roland Paradis (1999)
• Brian Pray (2002)
• Marty Meyer (2005)
• Lee Janecek (2008)
• Margaret Taff (2011)
• Frank Goetz (2014)
• Jennifer Johnson (2017)

In 2012, the Education Committee incorporated as a separate organization.  Jodi McDonald (2020) is the current ALU President.