{"id":4796,"date":"2024-05-15T12:53:53","date_gmt":"2024-05-15T17:53:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/niada.com\/dashboard\/?p=4796"},"modified":"2024-05-15T12:53:55","modified_gmt":"2024-05-15T17:53:55","slug":"former-niada-director-passes-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/niada.com\/dashboard\/former-niada-director-passes-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Former NIADA director passes away"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">R.B. Grisham, who helped lead NIADA in the late 1990s,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dignitymemorial.com\/obituaries\/arlington-tx\/richard-grisham-11788558\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> passed away last month<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Grisham served as executive vice president and CEO of the association starting in 1996. He previously served in the Missouri House of Representatives and as the Missouri Motor Vehicle Commission director.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cHe was a super nice guy that helped us in his time here,\u201d said former NIADA President George Karlen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to Grisham\u2019s obit, he worked part-time at Auto Zone in his retirement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Service information has not been made public.<\/p>\n<div class=\"niada-bottomboard niada-entity-placement\" id=\"niada-1263857981\"><div id=\"niada-510622656\"><a data-no-instant=\"1\" href=\"https:\/\/goldstandardautomotive.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"a2t-link\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"NIADA Banner 0626 970x66px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/niada.com\/dashboard\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/01\/NIADA-Banner-0626-970x66px.png\" alt=\"\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/niada.com\/dashboard\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/01\/NIADA-Banner-0626-970x66px.png 970w, https:\/\/niada.com\/dashboard\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/01\/NIADA-Banner-0626-970x66px-300x20.png 300w, https:\/\/niada.com\/dashboard\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/01\/NIADA-Banner-0626-970x66px-768x52.png 768w, https:\/\/niada.com\/dashboard\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/01\/NIADA-Banner-0626-970x66px-380x26.png 380w, https:\/\/niada.com\/dashboard\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/01\/NIADA-Banner-0626-970x66px-550x37.png 550w, https:\/\/niada.com\/dashboard\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/01\/NIADA-Banner-0626-970x66px-800x54.png 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 970px) 100vw, 970px\" width=\"970\" height=\"66\"   \/><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"R.B. Grisham, who helped lead NIADA in the late 1990s, passed away last month. Grisham served as executive&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3712,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_appearance_grid":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-niada-news","cs-entry","cs-video-wrap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/niada.com\/dashboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/niada.com\/dashboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/niada.com\/dashboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/niada.com\/dashboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/niada.com\/dashboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/niada.com\/dashboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4796\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/niada.com\/dashboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/niada.com\/dashboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/niada.com\/dashboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/niada.com\/dashboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}