EDUCATION COMMISSION OF THE STATES PRESIDENTS AND CHAIRS: 1965 TO PRESENT EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS/PRESIDENTS WENDELL H. PIERCE, Executive Director TED SANDERS, President 1967-76 2000-05 WARREN HILL, Executive Director PIEDAD F. ROBERTSON, President 1976-80 2005-06 ROBERT ANDRINGA, Executive Director ROGER SAMPSON, President 1980-84 2007-12 FRANK NEWMAN, President JEREMY ANDERSON, President 1985-99 2012-Present CHAIRS JOHN H. CHAFFEE, Rhode Island JERRY APODACA, New Mexico 1965-66 1976-77 CHARLES L. TERRY JR., Delaware OTIS P. BOWEN, Indiana 1966-67 1977-78 CALVIN L. RAMPTON, Utah DIXY LEE RAY, Washington 1967-68 1978-79 ROBERT E. McNAIR, South Carolina WILLIAM G. MILLIKEN, Michigan 1968-69 1979-80 TOM McCALL, Oregon ROBERT GRAHAM, Florida 1969-70 1980-81 RUSSELL W. PETERSON, Delaware ROBERT D. RAY, Iowa 1970-71 1981-82 ROBERT W. SCOTT, North Carolina JAMES B. HUNT JR., North Carolina 1971-72 1982-83 WINFIELD DUNN, Tennessee PIERRE S. DUPONT, Delaware 1972-73 1983-84 REUBIN ASKEW, Florida CHARLES S. ROBB, Virginia, 1984-85 1973-74 INITIATIVE: BUSINESS AND EDUCATION REFORM JOHN C. WEST, South Carolina THOMAS H. KEAN, New Jersey, 1985-86 1974-75 INITIATIVE: TEACHER RENAISSANCE: IMPROVING UNDERGRADUATE EDUCATION ARCH A. MOORE JR., West Virginia 1975-76 BILL CLINTON, Arkansas, 1986-87 INITIATIVE: SPEAKING OF LEADERSHIP www.ecs.org | @EdCommission EDUCATION COMMISSION OF THE STATES PRESIDENTS AND CHAIRS: 1965 TO PRESENT CHAIRS JOHN ASHCROFT, Missouri, 1987-88 KENNY GUINN, Nevada, 2001-02 INITIATIVE: FAMILY INVOLVEMENT IN THE SCHOOLS INITIATIVE: LEADING FOR LITERACY RUDY PERPICH, Minnesota, 1988-89 ROY BARNES, Georgia, 2002-03 INITIATIVE: PARTNERS IN LEARNING: LINKING COLLEGE MENTORS INITIATIVE: CLOSING THE ACHIEVEMENT GAP WITH AT-RISK SCHOOLS MARK WARNER, Virginia, 2003-04 GARREY E. CARRUTHERS, New Mexico, 1989-90 INITIATIVE: HIGH-QUALITY TEACHERS FOR INITIATIVE: SHARING RESPONSIBILITY FOR SUCCESS HARD-TO-STAFF SCHOOLS BOOTH GARDNER, Washington, 1990-91 MIKE HUCKABEE, Arkansas, 2004-06 INITIATIVE: ALL KIDS CAN LEARN INITIATIVE: THE ARTS: A LIFETIME OF LEARNING JOHN R. MCKERNAN, Maine, 1991-92 KATHLEEN SEBELIUS, Kansas, 2006-08 INITIATIVE: KEEPING THE PROMISES OF REFORM INITIATIVE: GREAT TEACHERS FOR TOMORROW EVAN BAYH, Indiana, 1992-93 TIM PAWLENTY, Minnesota INITIATVE: EDUCATION FOR A REVITALIZED DEMOCRACY 2008-11 JIM EDGAR, Illinois, 1993-94 JOHN HICKENLOOPER, Colorado INITIATIVE: BUILDING COMMUNITIES THAT SUPPORT 2011-13 EDUCATION REFORM BRIAN SANDOVAL, Nevada, 2013-15 ROY ROMER, Colorado, 1994-95 INITIATIVE: ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS INITIATIVE: MAKING QUALITY COUNT IN Montana, 2015-17 UNDERGRADUATE EDUCATION STEVE BULLOCK, INITIATIVE: DUAL ENROLLMENT TOMMY THOMPSON, Wisconsin, 1995-96 Mississippi, 2017-19 INITIATIVE: CONNECTING LEARNING AND WORK PHIL BRYANT, INITIATIVE: EARLY LEARNING TERRY BRANSTAD, Iowa, 1996-97 INITIATIVE: HARNESSING TECHNOLOGY FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING ZELL MILLER, Georgia, 1997-98 INITIATIVE: INVESTING IN STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT PAUL E. PATTON, Kentucky, 1998-99 INITIATIVE: TRANSFORMING POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION JIM GERINGER, Wyoming, 1999-2000 INITIATIVE: IN PURSUIT OF QUALITY TEACHING JEANNE SHAHEEN, New Hampshire, 2000-01 INITIATIVE: EARLY LEARNING: IMPROVING RESULTS FOR YOUNG CHILDREN www.ecs.org | @EdCommission.