Susan Anderson
president/CEO, The CIRI Foundation, Anchorage

Bonnie J. Beesley (chair, WICHE commission)
chair, Utah Board of Regents, Salt Lake City

Leah Bornstein (vice chair, WICHE commission)
president, Coconino Community College, Flagstaff

Robert Burns
dean emeritus of Honors College and distinguished professor emeritus of political science, South Dakota State University, Brookings

Christopher Cabaldon
principal, Capitol Impact LLC, and mayor, City of West Sacramento

Ryan Deckert
president, Oregon Business Association, Portland

Joseph Garcia (immediate past chair, WICHE Commission)
Colorado Lieutenant Governor; executive director, Colorado Department of Higher Education, Denver

Kim Gillan
state senator, Billings

James O. Hansen
regent, South Dakota Board of Regents, Pierre

Dianne Harrison
president, California State University, Northridge

James Johnsen
senior vice president, Alaska Communications, Anchorage

Michael Kirst
president, State Board of Education, Sacramento

Jeanne Kohl-Welles
state senator, Seattle

Karla Leach
president, Western Wyoming Community College, Rock Springs

Susanna Murphy
lecturer, Department of Educational Leadership and Organizational Learning, College of Education, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque

Tim Nesbitt
former deputy chief of staff, Office of the Governor, Portland

Roy T. Ogawa
attorney , Ogawa, Lau, Nakamura, & Jew, Honolulu

Vic Redding
assistant vice chancellor of finance, Nevada System of Higher Education, Reno

William Sederburg
commissioner of higher education, Utah System of Higher Education, Salt Lake City

Mack Shirley
representative, State of Idaho, Rexburg

Patricia Anaya Sullivan
assistant dean, College of Engineering, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces

Jack Warner
executive director, South Dakota Board of Regents, Pierre