Why Didn't Rattray?

When Summit HOA resident Michele Rattray filed her legal action in Pontiac Court against Brenda Bryant, Jeff Lummel, Linda Potter, and Angelo Turley-Moore (which mirrored Vernell Butler's legal action against the same four), why didn't she file against the people who actually set up and ran the 2025 election of directors of the HOA?

Those people were Danny Trapp and the Nominating Committee.

The Nominating Committee was composed of then-Board Vice-President Tanisha Holmes (Rattray's neighbor in Whitney Falls), Carmen Cloud (Danny Trapp's neighbor), Maribeth Edwards, and Stan Haines).

The Nominating Committee had shortly before the November 2025 election been purged of long-time members (Michael Bryant, Jeff Lummel, James Glenn, and Kristie O'Brian). I don't recall that the formation of the new Nominating Committee was voted on at a public Board Meeting, but it might have been.

When the Nominating Committee reviewed applications for Board positions, it did not approve the applications of Brenda Bryant, Jeff Lummel, and Angelo-Turley. It did approve applications of Danny Trapp, Vernell Butler, Greg Thomas, and one other resident.

According to the PRM (Art. III, §H, ¶10), "The Nominating Committee may decide not to nominate a Candidate if there is a conflict of interest, if the candidate has a personal agenda, has lied on their application or other reasons." Yet the Nominating Committee chose not to nominate Bryant, Lummel, and Turley-Moore.

The "recognized Voting Members" insisted on write-in candidates and elected Bryant, Lummel, and Turley-Moore (and not Trapp- and Holmes-backed Trapp, Butler, and Thomas).

Earlier in 2025 then-Board President Danny Trapp  had asked Brookland Baptist Church Northeast to ban three Summit homeowners (two Voting Members and one almost-Voting Member) from its property, effectively preventing those three from attending the scheduled Annual Meeting of Voting Members in November, at which directors are elected. That backfired, and the Church decided not to allow further HOA meetings in its building.

Rattray should have sued Trapp and the Nominating Committee. Instead, she sued Lummel and Turley-Moore, who weren't even elected until November 18, 2025, and she sued Bryant and Potter, who were on the Board but had nothing to do with the election.