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Executive Committee ECS executive committee

The Executive Committee provides strategic direction and oversight for the management, operations and financial policies of the Commission. The President is hired by and serves at the pleasure of the Executive Committee. Specific powers and responsibilities of the Executive Committee include reviewing the ECS annual audit, ECS annual report and President’s proposed budget before forwarding each on to the Steering Committee for final approval.

The Executive Committee is composed of the Chair, the Immediate Past Chair, the Chair-Elect, the Vice Chair, the Treasurer and not more than five additionalmembers of the Steering Committee who are broadly representative of the Commission and who are appointed by the Chair.

2011-13 Executive Committee Members

Chair: The Honorable Brian Sandoval
Governor, State of Nevada

Immediate Past Chair: The Honorable John Hickenlooper
Governor, State of Colorado

Vice Chair: The Honorable Roy Takumi
Chair, Education Committee, Hawaii House of Representatives

Treasurer: Melody Schopp
Secretary of Education, South Dakota Department of Education

Tom Horgan
President and CEO, New Hampshire College and University Council

The Honorable Rae Ann Kelsch
Former North Dakota State Representative

The Honorable Joseph U. Meyer
Former Kentucky Secretary of Education and Workforce Development

The Honorable Luther Olsen
Chair, Education Committee, Wisconsin Senate

Patricia Wright
Superintendent of Public Instruction, Virginia Department of Education

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