ANNE BYRNE
Friday General Session

Anne Byrne, a longtime member of the school board of Nanuet Union Free School District in New York, serves as the 2014-15 president of the National School Boards Association (NSBA). Byrne joined the NSBA Board of Directors as a Northeast region director in April 2006 filling a vacancy; and she was elected to a three-year term in 2007 and again in 2010. Starting in 2012, she was elected as NSBA’s Secretary-Treasurer. Byrne will serve a one-year term as NSBA’s President. In 2015, she will assume the position of immediate past president.

Byrne also served on the New York State School Boards Association (NYSSBA) from 1997 to 2006, and served as NYSSBA president from 2004-2005. As Area 10 Director from 1997 to 2003, she represented school boards in Putnam, Rockland, and Westchester counties. Since 1981, Byrne has been a member of the Nanuet School Board, on which she has served as vice president and president. Byrne is an executive board member and a past president of the Mid-Hudson School Study Council. She is a founding member of the Hudson-Long Island Coalition for responsible state funding, a nine-county coalition, and served as its chair- woman. She also has served as vice president and president of the Rockland County School Boards Association. She is a Eucharistic minister and has been a parish council officer, and taught religion for 41 years. She is a lifetime member of the PTA and a member of the Orangetown Parks and Recreation Committee.

Byrne is a published author, having written a book about Rockland County during the Revolutionary War. Byrne received her R.N. from St. Vincent’s Hospital School of Nursing and a bachelor’s degree from Pace University. She and her husband Patrick have raised three children who attended public schools.