Chieftain of the Day
Chieftain of the Day
2026 Chieftain
James Leslie (Jim) McEwen, USN FTCS (SS) (Ret.), FSAScot, has for many years been interested not only in his family’s MacEwen heritage, but his expanded family’s several other Scottish Clan connections. An active member of the Clan MacEwen Society since 2020, Jim is a past Society executive committee member. He now serves as Deputy High Commissioner of Clan MacEwen for the United States of America, as well as being Clan MacEwen’s Genealogist. Additionally, Jim and his family personally convene or assist in convening and participate in more than a dozen games and festivals throughout the Northeastern, Mid-Atlantic, and Southeastern United States.
As Deputy High Commissioner and Chieftain of the Ohio Scottish Games & Celtic Festival, Jim represents and brings greetings to all fellow Clans and festival attendees on behalf of Sir John R. H. McEwen, 5th Baronet of Marchmont and Bardrochat, Chief of the Name and Arms of MacEwen, and from U.S. High Commissioner CAPT Robert L. Owens, Sr., FSAScot.
2025 Chieftain
Ohio Deputy Commissioner Carol Linsenmeier has been a member of the Clan Campbell Society North America for 20 years. She comes from a long line of Campbells through her mother who was born Alys Elizabeth Campbell. Carol has worked at the Ohio Scottish Games in the Clan Campbell booth for 19 years. Carol also celebrates her Scottish heritage by teaching fiddle as well as violin, viola, cello, and mandolin lessons at the Fine Arts Association in Willoughby, Rabbit Run Community Arts Association in Madison, and the Ashtabula Arts Center.
2024 Chieftain
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2023 Chieftain
Jim has served as President of the Clan Elliot Society USA since October, 2021, having served the Clan Society as First Vice President and Treasurer/Membership Officer in the years prior. He also serves as Commissioner for the State of Iowa.
Having always had a great deal of interest in genealogy and family history, he was particularly excited to learn of his Scottish heritage as he researched his maternal family history, which lead to joining the Clan Elliot Society in 2014. Since then, he has had the opportunity to attend each in-person AGM in various venues in the US, and also the two most recent Gatherings of Clan Eliot in Scotland in 2013 and 2017. The journey has led to wonderful discoveries of the Clan history and opportunities to meet Elliot family and friends all across the US as well as the world.