The PMC Lead is a PMC Member
We treat the PMC as an aggregation of the PMC Leads and PMC Members. All of the queries that we do are inclusive of both roles; in every practical way, we treat the PMC has a whole.
Having said that, the Eclipse Foundation Development Process grants a few powers to the PMC Members exclusive of the PMC Leads. While that may not be the intention, it is a reasonable interpretation that the powers granted to the PMC Members are not extended to the PMC Lead (that is, the PMC Lead is, in fact, not a PMC Member).
Edited by Wayne Beaton