Jane Howard

Mailing address 1290 Ridder Park Drive San Jose, CA 95131-2304 Phone / Fax (408) 888-8123 / (408) 453-6601 Email address jane_howard@sccoe.org

Board Member, Term Expires in 2010
Area 7: Alum Rock Union, Mount Pleasant, Morgan Hill Unified and Gilroy Unified and corresponding portion of East Side Union High school districts

Committee assignments: SCROP Operations Committee; Joint Committee on Child Care; District & School Leadership Team (alternate)

Jane Howard is the executive director of the Gilroy Visitors Bureau. She serves on the Joint Committee on Child Care, the Budget Study Committee and the SCROP Operations Committee. Her school board experience includes four years as a Gilroy Unified School District trustee, including one year as president. Her community service positions have included: president of the Gilroy Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors, chair of the South Valley Hospital Board of Directors, director of the 1998 Gilroy Garlic Festival, director of the Gilroy Rotary Club, and former president of the Leadership Gilroy Education Foundation. She continues to serve actively as a member of the Gilroy Rotary Club and Gilroy Chamber of Commerce. She is past treasurer and vice chair of the Santa Clara County Republican Central Committee, and in 2000 was a delegate to the National Republican Party Convention. She graduated from Ireland, Indiana High School and attended Foothill College in Los Altos, majoring in accounting. They live in Gilroy and have two grown daughters and four grandchildren.

Date last revised: January 14, 2010