Candidate for
Board Member; Huntington Beach Union High School District; 2 Year Short Term

I have lived in this community since 1963, and have served your children as a classroom teacher, reading specialist, learning analyst, university instructor, principal of both regular and special education schools, district director of special education, assistant superintendent for curriculum and instruction, and as a superintendent in elementary, unified, and union high school districts. I presently serve the Fountain Valley, Huntington Beach, and Westminster communities as an appointed Governing Board member of the Huntington Beach Union High School District.

My degrees include: B.A. in Education, M.A. in Education, and Doctorate in Educational Organization and Management.

Prior to retirement, I served as superintendent of the Huntington Beach City School District, a time in which we reopened closed schools, built a new school to better serve the community, and passed a successful bond measure to modernize all school sites. In 2011, I served as Interim Superintendent of the Huntington Beach Union High School District.

In past years I have been actively involved with the Chamber of Commerce and numerous non-profit organizations that serve children and citizens, including the Huntington Beach Educational Foundation, American Heart Association, Children's Needs Task Force, United Way, Community Coordinating Councils, PTA and school site councils, Promoting Resources in Drug Education, Association for Retarded Citizens, and Independent Citizens Oversight Committee.