Judith K. Rovins, Ph.D., President of Rovins Educational Group LLC, brings specialized and highly useful experience as an educator and administrator. She served as Superintendent of Schools for seven years in West Lafayette, Indiana and two years in Westport, Connecticut. She was a founding Superintendent of the Public Schools Foundation of Tippecanoe County, Inc.; was a director of the Capital Funds Foundation in Lafayette, Indiana; a board director of Lafayette Home Hospital, Lafayette National Bank. She was a teacher and administrator in the Webster Groves Schools System, and she taught at Webster University and Maryville University in St. Louis, Missouri. She was chairman of the American Association of School Administrators (AASA) Resolutions Committee; president of the Indiana Public School University Partnership; received the Salute to Women Education Award, and the Young Alumnus Award from Buena Vista College. She recently was chairman of the board of the Westport Chamber of Commerce; served as president of the Greater Lafayette Area Chamber of Commerce; is past president of the Westport Rotary Club. She serves on the board of the Connecticut Consortium of Education Foundations. She received NASA’s Business Outreach Center’s Commitment to Excellence Award in 1998 for a woman-owned business.
Rovins has managed multi-million dollar budgets and interdisciplinary educational communications programs.

Judith K. Rovins is President of the Motivators -JK Rovins Associates LLC, a woman-owned business, since 1991. Judy Rovins is a professional conference manager and business to business communications specialist. She continues to raise funds from the private sector, promote and produce educational programs in the Northeast for the U.S. Coast Guard, the National Aeronautics & Space Administration (NASA), the Maritime Association Port of New York & New Jersey. Rovins received her Ph.D. in Educational Administration from Vanderbilt University.

Leonard Rovins, Of Counsel to McGuireWoods, formerly Ross & Hardies, with offices in Richmond, VA; Pittsburgh, PA; Atlanta, GA; Chicago, IL; New York, NY; Washington DC, Brussels, Belgium, et.al., lives in Westport, Connecticut. He has a long-standing national reputation in management labor law in both the private and public sectors. He was a founder of the labor committees of the New York State and County Bar Associations and has been active in school labor law.

Rovins served as president of the National School Boards Association from 1988-89, and as president of the Connecticut Association of Boards of Education from 1978-80. He served on the Westport Board of Education from 1971-1989. He was a member of the planning board of the Carnegie Forum on Education and the Economy, as well as the Connecticut State Department of Education Arbitration Panel, and a founding member of the board of directors of the National Board of Professional Teaching Standards.

Leonard Rovins is a graduate of the College of the City of New York, and he received his law degree from Brooklyn Law School.

He was stationed for a large part of World War II in the Aleutian Islands in Alaska. Before retirement from the military, he served as the Senior Assistant Division Commander of the 77th Infantry Division (Army Reserve). After he left the regular Army in 1947, he remained active in the army reserves, and retired in 1996 as a Colonel (Ret). He graduated from The Command and General Staff College and the National War College Reserve Program where he served for several years as a faculty member.