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 four finalist districts from which the winner is chosen by the Selection Jury.
2012 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.
Christopher Dodd
Chairman and CEO, Motion Picture Association of America, Inc.
Former U.S. Senator from Connecticut
Donald Graham
Chairman and CEO, Washington Post Company
Donald E. Graham was named chief executive officer of The Washington Post Company in 1991 and chairman of the board in 1993. He was also publisher of The Post from 1979 to 2000 and chairman of the newspaper from 2000 to 2008. Graham is chairman of the District of Columbia College Access Program and has served as a member of the Pulitzer Prize board. He is a trustee of the Federal City Council and of the Philip L. Graham Fund, which was established in 1963 in memory of his father. He is also a director of Facebook, The Summit Fund of Washington, the College Success Foundation and KIPP-DC.
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.
Michael Lomax
President and CEO, United Negro College Fund
Michael Lomax has been president and chief executive officer of UNCF since 2004. There, he launched the UNCF Institute for Capacity Building, which helps UNCF's 39 member historically black colleges and universities become stronger, more effective and more self-sustaining. Lomax is co-chair of the Education Equality Project, a member of the Aspen Institute’s Commission on No Child Left Behind and a member of the governing boards of Teach For America, the KIPP Foundation and the National Alliance of Public Charter Schools. He is also a frequent contributor to the National Journal's Education Experts blog and author of the “MorehouseMan” blog at Essence.com. Lomax also serves on the boards of the Smithsonian Institution’s Museum of African American History and Culture and the Studio Museum of Harlem. He founded the National Black Arts Festival.
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.
Edward G. Rendell
Former Governor of Pennsylvania
Condoleezza Rice
Thomas and Barbara Stephenson Senior Fellow, The Hoover Institution of Stanford University
Former U.S. Secretary of State
Condoleezza Rice served as the 66th Secretary of State of the United States from 2005 to 2009. Prior to that, she was President George W. Bush's National Security Advisor from 2001 to 2005. From 1993 to 1999, she was Stanford University's provost. She has served as a member of the boards of directors for the Chevron Corporation, the Charles Schwab Corporation, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the University of Notre Dame, and the San Francisco Symphony Board of Governors. She is also a member of the boards of the Commonwealth Club, the Aspen Institute, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, and the Boys and Girls Clubs of America. Rice earned a bachelor's degree in political science from the University of Denver; a master's degree from the University of Notre Dame; and a Ph.D. from the Graduate School of International Studies at the University of Denver.
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
President and CEO, Margaret Spellings and Company
Executive Vice President, National Chamber Foundation
Former U.S. Secretary of Education
Margaret Spellings is President and CEO of Margaret Spellings and Company and a leading national expert on public policy. Spellings also serves as a senior advisor to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and as President of the U.S. Forum for Policy Innovation. 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
Senior Research Fellow, Georgetown Public Policy Institute
President Emeritus, Service Employees International Union
Andy Stern is a senior research fellow at the Georgetown Public Policy Institute where he conducts and coordinates research on public policy issues. He 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.
Mortimer Zuckerman
Chairman and Editor-In-Chief, U.S. News & World Report
Publisher, New York Daily News