[Ct-nfb] FW: [State-affiliate-leadership-list] National Rehabilitation Association (NRA) Announces New Executive Director

Tue Apr 15 16:17:12 UTC 2014

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To:        All Members of the National Rehabilitation Association 

From:    Patricia Leahy, Interim Executive Director

Re:        NRA Announces New Executive Director

Date:     Monday, April 14, 2014

It is with great pleasure and excitement that the National Rehabilitation
Association announces the selection of The Honorable Fredric K. Schroeder as
NRA's new Executive Director. 

Dr. Schroeder has accepted the National Rehabilitation Association's
invitation to join the staff as Executive Director beginning in May of 2014.

Dr. Schroeder earned a BA in Psychology in 1971 and a Master's degree in
Education in 1978 from San Francisco State University and completed
post-graduate work in Orientation and Mobility in 1980.  Dr. Schroeder is
also the first blind individual in the Nation to be admitted to a university
program in Orientation and Mobility. 

In 1980, Dr. Schroeder returned to New Mexico to work as a teacher of blind
children for the Albuquerque public schools. 

In 1994, Dr. Schroeder earned a Ph.D. in Educational Administration from the
University of New Mexico. 

Dr. Schroeder began his career in his home State of New Mexico where in the
early 80s, Dr. Schroeder helped establish the New Mexico Commission for the
Blind.  Beginning in 1986, Dr. Schroeder worked for 7 years as the first
Executive Director of the newly-created Commission for the Blind. 

In 1994, President Clinton announced the appointment of Dr. Schroeder to be
the Ninth Commissioner of the Rehabilitation Services Administration (RSA)
in the U.S. Department of Education and in July of 1994 the full U.S. Senate
confirmed his appointment. 

In his capacity as Commissioner of RSA, Dr. Schroeder had responsibility for
administering a $2.5 billion program that annually provides individualized
services and supports by highly-skilled rehabilitation counselors to more
than 1 million eligible Americans with disabilities.   

Dr. Schroeder had a very active tenure in RSA and one of his many
accomplishments during that time was his founding and implementation of the
National Employment Conference which was directed by him and his staff and
included productive partnerships with businesses and employers throughout
the country. 

Through Dr. Schroeder's recognition early on of the importance of business
partnerships, the Employment Conference has endured and prospered to this
day as a conduit for business and employers to connect with properly-trained
Americans with disabilities who want careers and to live as independently as
possible.  

Dr. Schroeder serves as an adviser to the National Council of State
Administrators of the Blind (NCSAB) and is an active member of the National
Federation of the Blind (NFB). 

Dr. Schroeder is also a Research Professor with the Interwork Institute at
San Diego State University specializing in leadership and public policy. 

Dr. Schroeder is an accomplished scholar with over 50 published articles and
is a nationally and internationally-recognized lecturer on disability
policy. 

Dr. Schroeder and his wife Cathy Nusser Schroeder live just outside of
Washington, D.C. in Northern Virginia and have two grown children. 

On behalf of NRA's 2014 President, Ellen Sokolowski, the 2014 NRA Board of
Directors and all in the National Rehabilitation Association, it is a
pleasure and a privilege to welcome Dr. Schroeder as NRA's new Executive
Director. 

Thank you. 

Patricia Leahy 
Interim Executive Director
Director of Governmental Affairs and Public Policy 
National Rehabilitation Association 
 <mailto:patricia at nationalrehab.org> patricia at nationalrehab.org  
 <http://www.nationalrehab.org/> www.nationalrehab.org  

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Fredric K. Schroeder

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