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