Rebecca Martinez, who has served as Madera County's elected County Clerk-Recorder since 1990, is the new president of the California Association of Clerks and Election Officials.

She was installed as president earlier this year at the association's 100th annual conference in Long Beach. Her two-year term will last until 2010.

The association is a nonpartisan organization of county clerks, clerks to the board of supervisors, and registrars of voters serving in California's 58 counties.

Other officers are Gail Pellerin, the Santa Cruz County Clerk, who was named vice president; Cathy Darling, Shasta County's clerk, who was named treasurer; and Neal Kelley, the Orange County Registrar of Voters, who is secretary.