The American Federation of School Administrators (AFSA), AFL-CIO Elects Jill S. Levy to Top Post; Officers, Board Elected.

LAS VEGAS -- The American Federation of School Administrators (AFSA), AFL-CIO announced today that Jill S. Levy has been elected National President of AFSA.

Jill S. Levy, formerly AFSA's Executive Vice President was elected unanimously on Friday, July 21st by local union delegates attending AFSA's Eleventh Triennial Constitutional Convention in Las Vegas.

"I pledge to you that I will do my best to make each and everyone of us here - as well as the administrators we represent - stronger, better, and more courageous," she told the delegates in her first address as AFSA's National President-Elect. "We will fight to give school administrators and public school education a powerful national voice."

"The job we have to do is not about our local union in Boston, or in Detroit, or in San Francisco, or in any one location," President Levy continued. "Rather, it is about all of us, together, as one union of school administrators, dedicated to doing the best we can to deliver the highest quality public school education possible to all school children. I am grateful for your enthusiasm and support."

As AFSA's Executive Vice President, Jill S. Levy was second in command. She has been a member of AFSA's General Executive Board (GEB) since 1994, and served for three years each as treasurer, and executive vice president.

The long-time union activist, public school champion, and special education advocate is president of AFSA's largest local, the Council of School Supervisors and Administrators (CSA), AFSA Local 1 in New York City. She will continue to serve CSA in that capacity in addition to her duties as AFSA National President.

Under her leadership, CSA increased its membership by 100% in the first year of establishing its Retiree Chapter. CSA has developed many acclaimed professional development programs. Known and respected by special education advocates nationwide, Jill S. Levy spent years in New York City's public schools as a supervisor of special education. She was a driving force behind the passage of several state laws, and spearheaded an increase in school support services. She served on the Labor Sub-committee of former President Clinton's Committee on the Employment of People with Disabilities.

Delegates to the convention also welcomed back into the union long-time retired activists, Jack Zuckerman and Irwin Shanes, and the entire organization of retirees. The two men are among the pioneers who first established AFSA over thirty years ago.

AFSA delegates also elected the following officers:

Executive Vice President:     Diann Woodard, President of AFSA's
                              Detroit affiliate, OSAS, Local 28.

Secretary:                    Roch Girard, President of the
                              Connecticut Federation of School
                              Administrators.

Treasurer:                    Jimmy Gittings, President of PSASA,
                              AFSA Local 25, Baltimore.

General Executive Board:

    --  Crystal Boling-Barton, President of the Buffalo Council of
        School Administrators, AFSA Local 10.

    --  Clarice Berry, President of the Chicago Principals and
        Administrators Association (CPAA), AFSA Local 2.

    --  Wendi Caporicci, President of AFSA's California Federation of
        School Administrators (CFSA).

    --  James Dierke, President of the United Administrators of San
        Francisco (UASF), AFSA Local 3.

    --  Carver Farrow, President of the St. Thomas - St. John
        Educational Administrator's Association, AFSA Local 101.

    --  Donald Janicki, President of the Administrators and
        Supervisors Council (ASC), AFSA Local 107 in Milwaukee.

    --  Ernest Logan, Executive Vice President of CSA, AFSA Local 1,
        New York City.

    --  Gerald Martin, President of the Hartford Principals and
        Supervisors' Association, AFSA Local 22.

    --  Len Pugliese, President of the City Association of Supervisors
        and Administrators (CASA), Newark, New Jersey, AFSA Local 20.

    --  Dominic Sacchetti, President of the Boston Association of
        School Administrators and Supervisors (BASAS), AFSA Local 6.

    --  James Smallwood, President of the Administrative, Supervisory,
        and School Personnel (ASASP), Prince George's County,
        Maryland, AFSA Local 109.

    --  Cynthia Warren, President of the Administrators Association of
        the St. Louis Public Schools, AFSA Local 44.

    --  Charles Whelan, President of the Yonkers Council of
        Administrators, AFSA Local 8.

    --  Florida Woods, President of the Professional Administrators of
        New Orleans Public Schools, Inc. (PANOPSI), AFSA Local 17.

AFSA has approximately 80 local unions consisting of public school principals, assistant principals, administrators, and supervisors. Delegates representing the locals attend the convention to elect officers, set the union's national agenda, and determine positions on issues affecting public school education and school administrators. AFSA members span the country, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and Puerto Rico. For more information, see www.admin.org.