The School Board comprises seven equal members who serve without pay for staggered four-year terms. Each member is elected at large and represents the entire District. The Board must balance the needs of multiple constituencies in making sound decisions for the good of the District. The Board is specifically responsible for setting District policy, approving the ongoing expenditures/budget/long range plan, as well as hiring and evaluating the Superintendent. The Board delegates executive functions to the Superintendent through written policies and a written contract. (The Superintendent oversees all other employees and ensures the delivery of appropriate curriculum to students; decision-making for daily instruction resides primarily at the building and classroom level.) As specified in the Code of Conduct, Board members have the authority to make decisions only as a body of the whole. The Board President serves in the role of spokesperson for the Board to the community and the media.

Nancy Fehrenbach President Term 2007-2011	Nancy Fehrenbach, 594 Willow Road, moved to Winnetka in 2004. Nancy holds a B.S. in economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and is a Chartered Financial Analyst. She was a bond portfolio manager/analyst with Mutual of New York. Before moving to Winnetka, Nancy served as chair of the United Methodist Nursery School in Winchester, MA. She currently serves on the Board of the Winnetka Alliance for Early Childhood and is active in the PTOs. Nancy's four children attend Greeley School and The Skokie School.
Dana Crumley Vice President Term 2009-2013	Dana Crumley has lived in Winnetka for five years. After receiving a B.A. in English from Northwestern University, Dana taught middle school in Chicago and Skokie public schools while earning a Masters in Education and law degree from Loyola. Currently, Dana works at the law firm of Franczek Radelet & Rose in Chicago. She has taught school law classes at Loyola’s Graduate School of Education, the University of Illinois at Chicago, and Roosevelt University. She is a member of the American and Chicago Bar Associations and the National and Illinois Councils of School Attorneys. She is married with three children (attending Hubbard Woods and the Winnetka Community Nursery School). Dana has been active in many volunteer capacities, including the Hubbard Woods PTO.
Beth Moritz Filip Secretary Term 2009-2013	Beth Moritz Filip has lived in Winnetka for nine years. Raised on the North Shore, she attended Syracuse University and earned a B.A. in International Relations. After college, Beth worked for a New York-based Paramount Pictures/Warner Brothers joint venture and then in Washington D.C. for The Washington Post and The Washington Post Magazine. She is the mother of four children, the current Central PTO Vice President of Communications, and member of the Washburne Graduation Committee. She is the immediate past President and current ex-officio member of the Greeley PTO. In 2007, Beth co-chaired the district’s successful Sustain Excellence Referendum Campaign. She is also a founding member of the Winnetka Parents Institute and a Cub Scout Den Leader.
Peter Kane Term 2009-2011	Peter Kane, 847 Cherry Street, brings to the School Board financial acumen gained through sixteen years of banking experience, most recently serving as Managing Director at The Private Bank in Chicago. In addition to this professional experience, Kane has also served since 2002 as a Board member of a public policy entity, the Better Government Association, and has been a volunteer youth sports coach in Winnetka for the Park District and KWBA programs. A community member characterized him as “open, honest, and coming from a big family [one of ten children], he clearly knows the value of good communication.” Peter and his wife, Michelle, have three children who currently attend The Skokie School, Crow Island School and Sacred Heart School.
Jon Kaplan Term 2009-2011	Jon Kaplan, 1477 Scott Avenue, has lived in Winnetka since 2008. Jon holds Bachelors and Masters degrees from Stanford University, a teaching credential from Mills College, and an MBA from the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkely. With 20 years experience in education, Jon has demonstrated his commitment to teaching and learning as a university lecturer, a high-school teacher, and a founder and leader of a progressive, internationally recognized charter school in Alameda, California. Jon is currently the Director of the Training Center of Excellence at Discover Financial Services in Riverwoods, Illinois. Jon has two children, the older attends Hubbard Woods School.
Anne Kelly Term 2003-2011 (second Term)	Anne Kelly has lived in Winnetka for twenty years. Currently a full-time student in the Learning Sciences graduate program at Northwestern University's School of Education and Social Policy, she holds a B.A. in American Studies from Mount Holyoke College and a Master in Management from Northwestern's Kellogg School. She previously worked at the Quaker Oats Company for over ten years in several planning and brand management roles, and prior to that, at the First National Bank of Chicago. In this community, Anne has demonstrated her interest in education and child development by serving as an Executive Board member for both the Winnetka Public School Nursery and the Winnetka Alliance for Early Childhood as well as in various WPS classroom volunteer capacities. She is married, and has one child currently enrolled at Carleton Washburne School, and another who graduated from The Winnetka Public Schools and now attends the North Shore Country Day School.
Susan Crowe Whitcomb Term 2009-2013	Susan Crowe Whitcomb has lived in Winnetka for sixteen years. She graduated from the University of Colorado (Boulder) Magna Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa, with a BA in Political Science. She earned her MBA from the Sloan School of Management at MIT. She was a strategy consultant with the Boston Consulting Group for fifteen years where she did pro bono work at The Chicago Lighthouse and Rush University Medical Center. Susan and her husband, Robert, have two children who attended The Winnetka Public Schools and are now at New Trier. Susan’s community involvement has included: board member and officer of the Winnetka Community Nursery School, District 36 Financial Review Committee, Crow Island PTO, Central PTO, and President of the Winnetka Historical Society.