Julie Mix McPeak will be the president of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners Jan. 1.
McPeak, the Tennessee insurance commissioner, was officially elected to be the 2018 head of the Kansas City, Missouri-based regulator group earlier this week, at the NAIC's fall national meeting in Honolulu.
NAIC members also elected Eric Cioppa of Maine president-elect, Eric Cioppa of Maine vice president and Raymond Farmer of South Carolina vice president.
Gordon Ito, the Hawaii commissioner, was elected secretary-treasurer.
Ted Nickel, the Wisconsin commissioner, will be the immediate past president.
The NAIC has no direct authority of its own to change state insurance laws and regulations, but states often look to it for ideas about how to proceed. It also helps state insurance regulators communicate with Congress, and with financial services regulators in the United States and outside the United States.
McPeak is taking over the leader of the group as Congress is debating major changes in laws that affect the life insurance and health insurance markets, and as regulators at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the U.S. Department of Labor and the U.S. Treasury Department continue to hover over state insurance regulators' turf.
