Bruce Anderson, president of the Iowa Automobile Dealers Association, was elected chairman of the Automotive Trade Association Executives. The association represents more than 100 state and metro new car and commercial truck dealer associations in the U.S. and Canada. Anderson was elected during the ATAE winter meeting in San Francisco on Thursday in conjunction with the National Automobile Dealers Association and American Truck Dealers shows. He joined the IADA staff as general counsel in 2006 following a 20-year career in the private practice of law, and became IADA president in 2011.