Governor Brad Little has announced the appointment of Jennifer White to serve as executive director of the Idaho State Board of Education as current director Josh Whitworth is leaving for a job in the private sector. The Governor also selected Kurt Liebich to serve as the board’s president following the expiration of Dr. Linda Clark’s term as board president.
White is leaving her role as Assistant Vice President for Finance and Operations and Senior Counsel at Boise State University. Before joining the university in 2023, White was in-house counsel for a large corporation and was a litigator at law firms in the Washington, D.C., area. She worked for Idaho Governor Dirk Kempthorne and then-Lieutenant Governor Jim Risch. White graduated from Vallivue High School in Caldwell. She earned a bachelor’s degree from Willamette University and a Juris Doctor from the University of Washington School of Law.
Governor Little appointed Liebich to the board in 2019. He has served on the boards of numerous educational nonprofit organizations and he was on Governor Little’s “Our Kids, Idaho’s Future” task force to strengthen public education in Idaho. Liebich spent his 30-year business career in the wood products and building materials industry.
