Margaret Spellings, American educator and politician, 8th United States Secretary of Education
Margaret M. LaMontagne Spellings (née Dudar; born November 30, 1957) is an education administrator and American politician. She served as United States Secretary of Education from 2005 to 2009. Spellings was the President of the University of North Carolina, overseeing the seventeen campus system from March 1, 2016 until March 1, 2019. In 2019, she became CEO and President of Texas 2036.Spellings worked in several positions under George W. Bush during his tenure as Governor of Texas and President of the United States. She was one of the principal proponents of the 2001 No Child Left Behind Act that aimed at reforming primary and secondary education. She served as Secretary of Education in Bush's administration from 2005 to 2009, during which time she convened the Commission on the Future of Higher Education to recommend reform at the post-secondary level.