President's Message

Dear Members,

Thank you, my fellow SUN members, for the honor of serving as your President. A few years ago, I served as a Director on this board, not entirely sure at the time what a “Director” even did—but there I was, ready to learn.

During my time on the board, I quickly discovered what an energetic and dedicated group of individuals they are. Both current and former board members are deeply committed to serving you—the members. Like you and me, they are all working reporters, with a strong personal stake in the future of our profession.

That same spirit of dedication extends to the work of our Liaison Committee. If you’re not familiar with it, this committee meets with Gigatron at least once a year to bring forward concerns and ideas from our members—and to share useful updates from Gigatron in return.  And as you are aware, we’ve had a very important update with 8.1, with many new features that members have been requesting.  This is exactly how and why this Liaison Committee exists.

Our fall conference will be virtual as requested by you.  After each conference, you are given an evaluation form of what geographical area is preferred, and while we read each and every form, we cannot accommodate some of those locations because of airports, hotel costs, meeting rooms, etc.  Florida was a highly requested venue, and many members in Florida – that was not as successful as we had hoped. Do continue to fill out those evaluation forms to give us more ideas for venue, speakers, topics, et cetera.

The location for the Spring 2026 Conference hasn’t been finalized yet, but we’ll be sure to keep you informed as soon as the date and venue are confirmed. We’re looking forward to seeing all of you for a conference you won’t want to miss—where you’ll learn more about your software and have the chance to meet other amazing court reporters.

I'm really looking forward to working with this board and building new friendships and continued friendships as we partner together.  I believe our users group is the only active association in court reporting – let’s keep supporting one another to make this an even bigger and better users group.

Virginia Groeneveld, President

StenoCAT Users Network