Golden elected to national school board

Walla Walla School Board member Anne Golden has been elected to the board of directors of the National School Boards Association. Golden was chosen for the position during the NSBA Delegate Assembly, which held its annual business meeting Friday in San Francisco.

Golden will serve on the 25-member NSBA board as an at-large representative for the associations Pacific Region, which is made up of Alaska, Arizona, California, Hawaii, Idaho, Oregon, Utah and Washington. She was elected to a three-year term and will take office April 17. Golden succeeds North Thurston School Board member Bill Williams, who has served on the NSBA board since 2003.

The National School Boards Association is a national federation of state school boards associations that represent more than 95,000 school board members who govern the nations public schools. NSBAs governing body is the board of directors, which carries out the policies and positions adopted by the associations 150-member delegate assembly.

Golden previously served as president of the Washington State School Directors Association and a member of the WSSDA Board of Directors. She has chaired numerous association committees and currently serves as chair of the WSSDA Student Achievement Task Force. She also trains school board members in strategic planning and professional development.

Golden has served on the Walla Walla school board since 1987. She is has been active in community service through a number of national, state and local organizations, including the American Heart Association, United Way, Camp Fire Boys and Girls, YWCA, the American Red Cross, and the Walla Walla Community College Foundation Board of Governors. She chaired the state Correctional Industries Board of Directors and is a past member of the state Council on Volunteerism and Community Service.