Sandra Barry, Vice Chair

Mrs. Barry has worked in the Anaheim City School District (ACSD) for 11 years, seven as superintendent. She began her educational career in Orange County as a junior high English and French teacher and was quickly promoted to director of educational services, assistant superintendent, and then deputy superintendent. She served ACSD as a deputy superintendent before assuming the superintendency.

ACSD is the largest elementary school district in Orange County and one of the largest and most overcrowded elementary districts in California. Currently, the District's almost 20,000 students attend school on either a four-track, year-round schedule or an 11-month, single-track calendar.

Mrs. Barry is active in the Anaheim community, serving on the Board of Directors of the Tiger Woods Learning Center, Anaheim Chamber of Commerce, Women's Division of the Anaheim Chamber of Commerce, Anaheim Family YMCA, Leadership Anaheim, Salvation Army, and Police Chief Community Advisory Board. Her work in the Anaheim and Buena Park communities has earned her the Woman of Vision Award (We Give Thanks, Inc., of Anaheim) and the Woman of Achievement Award from the City of Buena Park. The International Dare Officers' Association honored her with a Distinguished Educator of the Year Award, and she currently serves as the Orange County Superintendents' Liaison to the Proposition 10 Orange County Children and Families Commission. Mrs. Barry has been Vice President for Programs for Region 17 of her professional organization, the Association of California School Administrators (ACSA), and was a three-year member of the ACSA State Elementary Curriculum Committee. She is currently serving a third term on the ACSA State Superintendents' Symposium Planning Committee. Mrs. Barry was recently appointed to the Children and Families Commission of Orange County.

Mrs. Barry hails from Nebraska where she earned her undergraduate degree from Nebraska Wesleyan University. She received her Master's from California State University, Fullerton. She and her husband, Ron, have one son, Jeffrey, a graduate of Loyola Law School.