The Broad Prize Selection Jury

The Broad Prize Selection Jury is comprised of nationally prominent individuals from business and industry, government and public service. The jury reviews the statistical data and site visit reports for each finalist district and chooses the winner of The Broad Prize.

A separate Review Board determines the five finalist districts from which the winner is chosen by the Selection Jury.

2010 Broad Prize Selection Jury Members

Henry Cisneros
Executive Chairman, CityView America
Former U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
Henry Cisneros is founder and chairman of CityView, a company dedicated to funding homes for working families. Previously, he was president and chief operating officer of Univision Communications in Los Angeles, the largest Spanish-language media company in the nation. In 1993, he became President William J. Clinton’s first secretary of housing and urban development. Cisneros became the first Hispanic mayor of a major U.S. city when he was elected mayor of San Antonio in 1981. During his four terms as mayor, Cisneros helped rebuild the city's economic base and created jobs through massive infrastructure and downtown improvements.

John Engler
President and Chief Executive Officer, National Association of Manufacturers
Former Governor of Michigan
John Engler is president and CEO of the National Association of Manufacturers, the nation’s largest industrial trade association. As governor of Michigan from 1991-2003, John Engler made improving public education a top priority. In 1994, Engler led a successful fight for equitable school funding. The reforms also provided that all Michigan children receive a foundation grant that allows them to choose among competing public schools, including charter public schools. Engler is a co-founder of The Broad Center for the Management of School Systems, a national effort dedicated to improving student achievement by recruiting, training and supporting executive leadership talent from across America to become the next generation of urban school district leaders.

Susan Hockfield
President, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The 16th president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a noted neuroscientist, Susan Hockfield is the first life scientist to lead the university. She also holds a faculty appointment as professor of neuroscience in the department of brain and cognitive sciences. Before assuming the presidency of MIT, she was provost at Yale University, where she had taught and served as dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Hockfield is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a director of the General Electric Company and the World Economic Forum Foundation, a trustee of the Carnegie Corporation of New York and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, and an overseer of the Boston Symphony Orchestra.

James Hunt, Jr.
Chairman of the Board, James B. Hunt, Jr. Institute for Educational Leadership and Policy
Former Governor of North Carolina
James Hunt is a partner in the Raleigh, N.C. office of the law firm of Womble, Carlyle, Sandridge and Rice and is chairman of the board of the James B. Hunt, Jr. Institute for Educational Leadership and Policy. Formerly governor of North Carolina, Hunt is a respected national leader in education reform. During his 20 years of service as governor, he dramatically raised North Carolina’s student test scores and ensured that teacher salaries were raised to match the national average. A strong supporter of high standards in public schools, Hunt served as chairman of the National Education Goals Panel and as vice chairman of the board of Achieve. He also published a book outlining his plan and describing his own experiences with public education, “First in America: An Education Governor Challenges North Carolina.”

Shirley Ann Jackson
President, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
The 18th president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Shirley Ann Jackson has held senior leadership positions in government, industry, research and academia. She was appointed by President Barack Obama to serve on the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology. Jackson was appointed by President Bill Clinton to chair the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, where from 1995-1999, she reorganized the agency and completely revamped its regulatory approach. Prior to that, she was a theoretical physicist at the former AT&T Bell Laboratories and a professor of theoretical physics at Rutgers University.

Roderick Paige
Former U.S. Secretary of Education
Former U.S. Secretary of Education Rod Paige earned his reputation for seeking out and implementing innovative approaches to systemic academic improvement when he served as dean of the College of Education at Texas Southern University, where he established the university’s Center for Excellence in Urban Education. Paige also served first as trustee and then as superintendent of the Houston Independent School District, the nation’s seventh largest district. In his quest to improve the quality of education for all students, he is an active member of the boards of the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation, The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation, the American College of Education, the New England College of Finance and Business, the National Council on Economic Education’s Commission on the Skills of the American Workforce and is a former board member of News Corporation. Following his time in the White House, Paige was a public policy fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.

Richard Riley
Partner, Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP
Former U.S. Secretary of Education
Richard Riley is currently a partner in the law firm Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough. As governor of South Carolina during the 1980s, Riley won national recognition for successfully improving the state’s educational system. He became the first governor in South Carolina history to be elected to a second term after voters passed an amendment to the constitution allowing him to run a second time. Riley was then chosen by President Bill Clinton in 1992 to serve as U.S. secretary of education. During his eight-year tenure, Riley helped launch historic initiatives to raise academic standards and improve instruction for poor and disadvantaged children. He also expanded grant and loan programs to help more Americans go to college, prepare young people for the world of work and improve teaching. Since leaving his national post in 2001, Riley continues to serve on a number of boards and work with a variety of entities to improve education across America.

Donna Shalala
President, University of Miami
Former U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services
Donna Shalala began her commitment to public service early as one of the country's first Peace Corps volunteers, serving in Iran from 1962 to 1964. Currently president of the University of Miami, Shalala has more than 25 years of experience as an accomplished scholar, teacher and administrator. In 1993, President Clinton appointed her secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), where she served for eight years, becoming the longest serving HHS Secretary in U.S. history. Shalala also served in the Carter Administration as assistant secretary for policy development and research at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

Margaret Spellings
Executive Vice President, National Chamber Foundation
Former U.S. Secretary of Education
Margaret Spellings is executive vice president of the National Chamber Foundation, where she provides strategic and management leadership, including critical support for the chamber's Campaign for Free Enterprise. From 2005 to 2009, she served as U.S. Secretary of Education under President George W. Bush. As a member of the president’s Cabinet, Spellings led the implementation of the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB). She was White House domestic policy advisor from 2001 to 2005, during which time she managed the development of the president’s domestic policy agenda. Prior to her service in the White House, Spellings served as senior advisor to then-Governor George W. Bush of Texas, led government relations efforts for the Texas Association of School boards, served in various leadership capacities for the Texas legislature, and worked for local education organizations including Austin Community College.

Andrew Stern
President Emeritus, Service Employees International Union
Andy Stern recently stepped down as president of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), the largest and fastest-growing labor union in America. The SEIU represents more than two million working members, including health care workers, education workers, and other public service employees as well as building service and security workers. SEIU is a leading voice for quality education, affordable health care, and other vital services for working families and their communities.