California School Boards Association
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Jill Wynns
President
Jill Wynns, a board member in the San Francisco Unified School District in San Francisco 
County, is the 2011 President-elect of the California School Boards Association. She served as the Region 5 Director from 1995 to 2000 and 2005 to 2009, and served on the Delegate Assembly from 1993-94, 2001-05 and 2010. Wynns has been a member of the San Francisco Board of Education since 1993. She is a major leader in the urban education community and an expert on California school finance, urban education reform issues and governance, charter schools, privatization of public schools, healthy school food programs and labor-management collaboration. She is the former director of a children’s advocacy organization and works as a consultant specializing in education issues, community organizing and development.
She was a member of the San Francisco team that participated in the Public Education Leadership Project, the first-ever joint project of the Harvard Business School and the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She has served on the board of the Council of Urban Boards of Education (CUBE) of the National School Boards Association, and is a former President of the Association of California Urban School Districts.
She was a working group member of the California Master Plan for Education, served on the California Student Attendance Review Board and the California Title 1 Committee of Practitioners, appointed by State Superintendent of Public Instruction Jack O’Connell. She is an active participant in the Council of the Great City Schools, as well as CUBE, lobbying regularly on federal education issues.
Wynns has authored articles for journals and newsletters, and is a regular workshop presenter at conferences and symposia. She successfully led a community coalition to keep the De Young Museum in Golden Gate Park, and was part of the campaign to rebuild the California Academy of Sciences. Wynns holds a Bachelor of Arts in humanities from New College at Hofstra University in New York, and studied at Harvard and Wiks Folkhogskola in Balingsta, Sweden.
Wynns has been married since 1971 and is the mother of two sons and one daughter, all of whom attended public school in San Francisco, and is the grandmother of two.
Vernon Billy
Executive Director
Vernon M. Billy joined the California School Boards Association as Executive Director in May 
2011, bringing to the position extensive experience in public education advocacy, as well as the business arena. Billy provides executive leadership for the association, which represents and serves the elected and appointed members of the governing boards of the 1,013 school districts and county offices of education in California. He is responsible for planning, organizing, directing and coordinating the staff, programs and activities of CSBA to ensure the association’s mission, vision, goals and objectives are attained.
Billy has been involved in the business, legislative and political process for nearly two decades. He is the former owner/partner in the successful policy and advocacy firm, K Street Consulting, LLC.Billy also is a former vice president of School Innovations & Advocacy, a multi-million dollar education services company, which he played a key role in building. His experience as a business owner and policy and political strategist provides him with unique insight into the relationship between business and politics.
He also has extensive public education experience in the legislative and political arenas, serving as the former governmental relations director for San Francisco Unified School District, one of California’s largest and most diverse districts. In addition, he has served as the chief contract lobbyist for California’s largest district, the Los Angeles Unified School District. He also worked for CSBA during the mid-1990s as a senior legislative advocate.
Billy is a veteran of the Unified State Air Force and graduated from California State University, Sacramento, with a Bachelor’s degree in government/international relations. He lives with his wife and three children in Elk Grove.