Tom Luna is the former Superintendent of Public Instruction in Idaho. He was elected to the position in 2006 and 2010. In 2011, Tom was elected President of the Council of Chief State School Officers. Tom was appointed to the National Assessment Governing Board by U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan where he served for five years.
Luna served on the Nampa School Board for seven years, three as chairman, and on the Idaho Achievement Standards Commission and Idaho Assessment and Accountability Commission. From 2003 to 2005, Luna worked for the U.S. Department of Education as an adviser to then-U.S. Secretary of Education Rod Paige. In 2012, presidential candidate Mitt Romney named Luna to Romney's 19-member education policy advisory group, the only state superintendent to be chosen for the panel.
