Under the SBC bylaws, the SBC President has sole authority to nominate the Committee on Committees (known during most of the controversy as the Committee on Boards); the nominations do not require approval of the Messengers. This committee, in turn, nominates the members of the Committee on Nominations to be approved by the Messengers at the next Annual Meeting, which in turn nominates appointees for vacant positions to be approved by the Messengers at the subsequent Annual Meeting (i.e., two years from the initial Committee on Committees appointments). The process overlaps (i.e. during the second year when the Committee on Nominations is nominating the appointees for open positions to be approved at the third year meeting, the SBC President is appointing a new Committee on Committees to appoint the Committee on Nominations for the upcoming Annual Meeting).