self-elected

British  

adjective

1. having been elected or appointed to a post, position, etc, by onself

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Example Sentences

Assemblywoman Shirley Weber passed legislation in 2017 that took the database away from this self-elected board who'd been running it and gave oversight to the attorney general’s office with a mandate to clean it up and regulate it.

From Los Angeles Times

“I am afraid if it is something groundsmen just self-elected to do, there will be no paper trail,” said Stephen Done, the curator at Liverpool’s club museum.

From New York Times

Radiohead's Thom Yorke has released his latest solo album via BitTorrent in an attempt to bypass "the self-elected gatekeepers" of the music industry.

From BBC

"Enabling those people who make either music, video or any other kind of digital content to sell it themselves. Bypassing the self-elected gatekeepers. "If it works anyone can do this exactly as we have done.

From BBC

Mark: “That is correct until the 1670s, say, when New England encounters a series of very deep crises, a threat to its existence. The crisis comes from parliamentary intervention into New England’s trading: the rise of navigation acts, the threat to revoke Massachusetts’ self-elected governor or that Massachusetts elects its own governors, to impose a royal governor in a royal administration.

From Forbes