Christine Johnson, Ph.D. (Colorado) served as president of the Community College of Denver from 2001 to 2007, the first Hispanic woman college president in the history of Colorado higher education. Prior to this appointment, Johnson was vice president for educational services at the Community Colleges of Colorado System and, before that, director of urban initiatives with the Education Commission of the States in Denver. She began her career as a teacher and later served as principal of Horace Mann Middle School and Abraham Lincoln High School in Denver. She has served as chair of the Colorado Commission of Higher Education and was appointed by the U.S. Secretary of Education to the National Assessment Governing Board to help develop the “nation’s report card,” an assessment of what U.S. students should know and be able to do.