JOSEPHINE E. HERNANDEZ
President
Appointed in 2004
Fanwood, Union County

» President, State Board of Education, 2008 to present
» Vice President, Enrollment Management, Passaic County Community College
» President, Middle States Association of College Registrars and Officers of Admission, 2003 to 2004
» Former Vice President, Board of Directors, YWCA of Eastern Union County
» Member, National Community College Hispanic Council
» Featured on Univision Channel 41 during Women’s History Month, 2004
» Recipient of Unsung Champion Award CASA Community Organization, 2003
» M.A., Rutgers University
» B.A., Inter American University, Magna Cum Laude

ARCELIO APONTE
Vice President
Appointed in 2005
Piscataway, Middlesex County

» Vice President, State Board of Education, 2006 to present
» Director of Operations and Management, Economic Development, City of Newark
» Former National President, Lambda Theta Phi Latin Fraternity Inc.
» Leadership New Jersey, 2004
» M.A., Business Administration, Rutgers University, Graduate School of Management
» B.S., Electronic Engineering Technology, The College of New Jersey

RONALD K. BUTCHER
Appointed in 1990
Pitman, Gloucester County

» President, State Board of Education, 2007 to 2008
» Vice President, State Board of Education, 1999 to 2003
» Administrator, Rowan University
» President and CEO, Ronald K. Butcher & Co., S.P.
» B.S., Business Education, Western Michigan University
» M.A., Education Leadership, Eastern Michigan University
» Ph.D., Educational Administration and Supervision, University of Michigan

KATHLEEN A. DIETZ
Appointed in 2002
Hillsborough, Somerset County

» Clinical Research Outsourcing Manager, Cordis Corporation, A Johnson & Johnson Co.
» President, Hillsborough Township Board of Education, 1991 to 1993
» Member, Hillsborough Township Board of Education, 1988 to 1995
» President, Hillsborough Middle School Home & School Assoc. 1996 to 1997
» Former member, Somerset County Education Services
ASAH Humanitarian of the Year Award, 2007
» Drug Information Association, Chair Finance Committee, 2003 to present
» Paul Harris Fellow Community Service Award, Rotary International, 1999
» B.S., Business Management, Rutgers University
» Married, two children

EDITHE FULTON
Appointed in 2007
Toms River, Ocean County

» Member, N.J. Advisory Commission on the Status of Women
» Member, N.J. Reads Board of Directors, 2004 to 2007
» Member, Literacy Volunteers of Ocean County Board of Directors
» Member, Executive Women of New Jersey Board of Directors, 2005 to 2006
» Past President, Vice President, Secretary/Treasurer, N.J. Education Assoc. (NJEA), 1981 to 1985 and 1993 to 2005
» President, Partners in Education, 2003 to 2005
» Member, Privacy Commission and Streamlining Task Force, 2003 to 2004
» Member, Governor’s Commissions for Alternate Route, Master Teacher & Monitoring, 1981 to 1984
» Member, NJEA Delegate Assembly, 1971 to 1976
» President, Ocean County Council of Education Associations, 1972 to 1976
» President, New Jersey County Presidents’ Council, 1974 to 1976
» President, Lakehurst Education Association, 1969 to 1971

» Married, three children and six grandchildren

ROBERT P. HANEY
Appointed in 2008
Holmdel, Monmouth County

» Partner, Covington & Burling, present
» Trustee, Hall Institute for Public Policy New Jersey
» Trustee, New York City’s Assigned Counsel Corp.
» Member, New Jersey City University Foundation
» Member, Board of Overseers, Seton Hall School of Diplomacy
» Juris Doctor, Harvard University, Cum Laude
» M.A., Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government
» Middlebury College, Summa Cum Laude

ERNEST P. LEPORE
Appointed in 2004
West New York, Hudson County

» Director, Rutgers Center for Cognitive Science
» Co-author, What Every Student Should Know (Rutgers Press, 2002)
» Professor, Rutgers University, Philosophy Department
» Former visiting scholar, Third University of Rome
» Member, American Philosophical Assoc.
» Member, Society for Philosophy and Psychology
» Member, Rutgers University Press, Editorial Board
» Ph.D., Philosophy, University of Minnesota
» M.A., Linguistics, University of Minnesota,
» B.A., Philosophy and Linguistics, University of Massachusetts

FLORENCE MCGINN
Appointed in 2008
Flemington, Hunterdon County

» Insynthesis Consulting, LLC, 1999 to present
» Educational and writing consultant and presenter, 1993 to present
» Internationally published writer, 1997 to present
» Former U.S. Commissioner, Web-based Education Commission, Clinton Administration
» Former Executive Vice President, Global Knowledge Exchange (GKE), 2000 to 2004
» GKE Foundation, Board of Trustees and Co-Director, 2000 to 2004
» Advisory Board, Cisco Learning Institute, 2002 to 2004
» Advisory Board, PBS On-Line, 1998 to 2002
» Princeton University Distinguished Secondary Educator, 1998
» Editorial Advisory Board, Technology and Learning Magazine, 1998 to 2007
» United States Technology and Learning National Teacher of the Year, 1998
» English Teacher, Hunterdon Central Regional High School, 1982 to 2001
» English Teacher, Reading Fleming Middle School, 1979 to 1982
» English Teacher, MacFarland School, Bordentown, 1968 to 1972
» M.A., Rutgers University
» B.A., Monmouth University

ILAN PLAWKER
Appointed in 2009
Englewood Cliffs, Bergen County

» Retired, small business owner. Display Design, Marketing and Sales
» U. S. Marine during Korean Conflict
» Attended Columbia University on the GI Bill
» Volunteer Ambulance Corps EMT, four years
» Fifteen years of service on the Englewood Cliffs Board of Education. President, for five terms
» Councilman, Englewood Cliffs, first elected in 1996. Council President since 1998
» Politically active in Bergen County

» Married, three married sons, seven grandchildren

DOROTHY STRICKLAND
Appointed in 2008
West Orange, Essex County

» Samuel DeWitt Proctor Professor of Education, Rutgers University
» Former classroom teacher; reading specialist; learning disabilities specialist
» Member and Past President of the International Reading Assoc.
» Member, Reading Hall of Fame
» Service to numerous advisory boards and panels at the state and national levels
» Numerous publications in the area of reading instruction
» Received IRA’s Outstanding Teacher Educator of Reading Award; National Council of Teachers of English Award as Outstanding Educator in the Language Arts; and the National-Louis University Ferguson Award for Outstanding Contributions to Early Child hood Education.
» Ph.D., and M.A., New York University
» M.S., Newark State College (now Kean University)