The Chicago Tribune reports today that the CEO of the US Naval Academy Alumni Association and the Naval Academy Foundation will resign from both posts this summer. A graduate of the Academy, he had a good record of raising some pretty large sums of money.

He said that he and his wife knew "it was always a matter of when, not if, we would move on", fair enough, but his resignation comes on the heels of a lawsuit filed by two alumni against "28 of the association's 29 trustees, alleging that the association's term limit rules were violated in the group's 2006 election."

Now I don't have more details but will poke around. It is so notably rare that members take governance so seriously as to sue over term limit rules or elections that when it happens, it is definitely worth noting. Would that more felt this passionate, right or wrong, about what it takes to seriously govern. My condolences to the CEO but my compliments to the two alumni.