Board of Directors
Who is the leadership at ACTFL?
ACTFL is governed by a volunteer Board of Directors made up of leaders in language education from both K-12 and Higher Education. The ACTFL Board of Directors is elected each year by the membership. Here are the current directors.
2025 ACTFL Board of Directors
Executive Committee
Milton Alan Turner: President - Saint Ignatius High School, Cleveland, OH
Krishauna Hines-Gaither: President-Elect - Mount Saint Mary's University, Los Angeles, CA
L.J. Randolph, Jr.: Past President - University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI
Brandon Locke: Treasurer - Pacific Northwest Council for Languages (PNCFL), Anchorage School District, Anchorage, AK
Board Members
Jill Landes-Lee - Southwest Conference on Language Teaching (SWCOLT), University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
Catherine Ousselin - Mount Vernon High School, Mount Vernon, WA
Amanda Ramirez - Central States Conference (Central States), Avon High School, Avon, IN
Beckie Bray Rankin - Lexington High School, Lexington, MA
Julio Rodriguez - University of Hawai'i at Manoa, Honolulu, HI
Carmela Bernadetta Scala - Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
Beth Slocum - NECTFL - Genessee Valley Educational Partnership, Le Roy, NY
Thomas (Tom) Soth - Southern Conference on Language Teaching (SCOLT), Chapel Hill High School, Chapel Hill, NC
Ashley Watson-Fears - North East ISD, San Antonio, TX
Junko Yamamoto - Slippery Rock University, Slippery Rock, PA