Board of Education

MS. STACEY WOOLLEY
DISTRICT 1

Ms. Stacey Woolley was elected to the board in April of 2019. Her term expires in April 2023.

A mother of five and public school advocate, Ms. Woolley has a Master’s of Science from the University of Central Oklahoma in Communication Sciences and Disorders as well as a Bachelor’s of Art in Communication from Southeastern Oklahoma State University. Stacey holds a teaching certificate in the State of Oklahoma and is a certified Speech-Language Pathologist.

Stacey and her family have lived in Tulsa for 11 years, and though they are relatively new to town, they think of it as home. Stacey and her husband Eric share the dream that all children in Tulsa would be afforded the best public education experience possible.

Schools in Ms. Woolley's election district include Wayman Tisdale Fine Arts Academy, Clinton West, Council Oak, Emerson, Eugene Field, Robertson and Mark Twain elementary schools; and Webster Middle and Webster High School.

MS. JANIA WESTER
DISTRICT 2

Born and raised on the island of Puerto Rico, Jania Wester came to the United States to attend college. She received her Bachelor’s in Education from Oral Roberts University and her Master’s in Educational Leadership from Oklahoma State University.

She was first hired as part of the founding faculty of Kendall-Whittier Elementary in Tulsa Public Schools, where she spent 14 years, the last two of those years as one of their assistant principals. She then became the first Latinx principal of Henry Zarrow International Elementary School, a Tulsa Public Schools language immersion magnet program, for four years. Her passion for bilingual education and community engagement is clearly evident in her work and in the high bar that she sets both for herself and those she has led.

She and her husband, Kirk, have been married since 1996 and they have 3 children: Sanjuana, Markos and Isabela. They have chosen to raise their children to be bilingual, bi-literate, and change agents in the poverty cycle.

Jania and her family intentionally moved into the Kendall-Whittier neighborhood in 1998, when it was known as the Red Light District and they have not only joined their neighbors in the transformation of their neighborhood but have truly embraced the beauty that comes with living in a multi-cultural and mixed income neighborhood.

Schools in Ms. Wester’s election district include Kendall-Whittier, McKinley, Mitchell, Owen, Sequoyah, and Springdale elementary schools; Carver Middle School and Rogers College Jr. High; and Rogers College and Booker T. Washington high schools.

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MS. RUTH ANN FATE
DISTRICT 6

Ms. Fate was first elected to the Board of Education in April 1996. She served as president from February 1999 through February 2002 and from February 2013 through February 2014. Her term will expire February 2020.

Ms. Fate is a life-long Oklahoman, graduating from high school in Miami and attending Oklahoma University. She married Martin Fate, Jr. in 1954 and was widowed in 1995. Ms. Fate’s three children and four of her grandchildren graduated from Memorial High School.

Ms. Fate is a charter member of Bethany Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), and a 1971 founding member of the Bethany Community pre-school where she taught for ten years and continues to serve on their board.

A tireless community volunteer, Ms. Fate is on the Board of Trustees for the Oklahoma Conference for Community and Justice and currently sits on the boards of ahha (formerly the Arts and Humanities Council), Resonance Center for Women, OU College of Education Board of Advocates, and the Phillips Theological Seminary board, where she received an honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters in 2005. In addition, Ms. Fate is a former docent for the Philbrook Museum of Art where a room was named in honor of her and her late husband, Martin E. Fate. Ms. Fate was elected to serve on the Oklahoma State School Boards Association Board of Directors in 2010, and in 2014 she received their All-State School Board Award.

Schools in Ms. Fate’s election district include Bell, Hoover, Jones, MacArthur, and Salk elementary schools; Zarrow International School; Hale Jr. High, Hale High School, Memorial Jr. High, and Street School. 

DR. BRIAN HOSMER
DISTRICT 5

Dr. Brian Hosmer holds the H.G. Barnard Chair in Western American History at the University of Tulsa, where he’s worked since 2009 following academic positions at the University of Delaware, University of Wyoming, and the University of Illinois at Chicago.

While in Chicago, Dr. Hosmer also directed the Newberry Library’s D’Arcy McNickle Center for Native American and Indigenous Studies (formally McNickle Center for American Indian History), a preeminent Native American Studies research center, for a half-dozen years.

At TU, Dr. Hosmer teaches a variety of classes covering Indigenous peoples of North America, the North American West, Environmental history, and the History of Oklahoma.

Dr. Hosmer has served on the Board of Directors for the Woody Guthrie Center and volunteers with other organizations. Dr. Hosmer is a husband, father of a wonderful daughter, and has two dogs. In his spare time, he likes to travel and work around his home.

Representing Eliot, Lanier, Mayo, and Wright elementary schools, and Edison Preparatory School.

MS. JENNETTIE MARSHALL
DISTRICT 3

Ms. Jennettie Marshall was elected to her post in April 2017. Her term will expire in February 2021.

Ms. Marshall has a strong history of serving people through her ministerial duties, funeral service duties, and volunteer work. Jennettie retired from the State of Oklahoma where she worked for the Department of Corrections and the Department of Human Services. She also served the City of Tulsa as a police and fire chaplain and was trained in emergency disaster response and hostage negotiation. In 1994, Ms. Marshall established Reclaim Inc., a program that specializes in serving as a "vehicle of change and r4edirection" for families, juveniles and adults.

Jennettie holds an associates in political science, bachelor of science in corrections, masters of science in business management, associates in applied science in funeral service, attended Phillips Theological Seminary and is completing her seminary coursework through Andersonville Theological Seminary. She is the founding pastor of Living Sanctuary Evangelistic Ministries and previously served as Senior Pastor of Snowden Chapel and Macedonia Christian Methodist Episcopal churches.

Ms. Marshall is the proud mother of three children, DeAndrae Sr., LaKesha Caraway and LaToya (deceased). She is the proud grandmother of twelve grandchildren.

Schools in Ms. Marshall’s election district include Academy Central, Anderson, Burroughs, Celia Clinton, Hamilton, Hawthorne, John Hope Franklin, Unity Learning Academy, and Whitman elementary schools; Dual Language Academy; Monroe Demonstration Academy; Central Jr. High; and McLain High School.

MS. SHAWNA KELLER
(PRESIDENT)
DISTRICT 4

Ms. Keller was elected to her post in February 2018. Her term will expire in February 2022. As a fourth-generation East Tulsa resident, Ms. Keller attended Disney Elementary School, Foster Middle School (currently East Central Junior High School) and East Central High School. Ms. Keller graduated from the University of Tulsa with a bachelor’s degree in history and received her teaching certification from Northeastern State University. Ms. Keller also has a master's degree in history from the University of Tulsa. Ms. Keller began teaching at Owasso Ram Academy in 2006 as a history teacher. She was selected as Teacher of the Year at the Ram Academy in 2011. Ms. Keller is an active member of the Oklahoma Education Association.

Schools in Ms. Keller's election district include: Cooper, Disney, Huerta, Kerr, Lindbergh, Lewis and Clark, Peary, Skelly, East Central Jr. High and East Central High School.

MS. SUZANNE SCHREIBER
(VICE PRESIDENT)
DISTRICT 7

Ms. Suzanne Schreiber was elected to her post in February 2018. Her term will expire in February 2022. She has lived in Tulsa more than 20 years. Her passion for public education is fueled by the belief that every child can learn and our community is stronger when all children have access to a quality education. Ms. Schreiber and her husband, Tony Rittenberry, have four children ranging from ages two to ten. Their school-age children are students at Tulsa Public Schools. 

Suzanne has always been civically active, participating in everything from student government, leadership organizations and charitable boards to middle school mentor and homeroom mother at Grimes Elementary. She is a graduate of the University of Tulsa and the University of Tulsa Law School. She works for the Tulsa Community Foundation on a variety of community improvement projects. Prior to her position at Tulsa Community Foundation, Suzanne practiced law in the private sector and served as a federal law clerk at both the district and appellate levels.

Schools in Ms. Schreiber’s election district include Carnegie, Eisenhower International, Grimes, Grissom, Patrick Henry, Key, Marshall, and McClure elementary schools; Thoreau Demonstration Academy; and Memorial High School.