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Jennifer Churchfield
Jennifer Churchfield graduated in 1985 from Miami University with a B.S. in Mass Communications. She also swam for Miami for 2 years and studied abroad in Luxembourg for a semester in 1983.
 
Ms. Churchfield worked in medical sales for several companies, finishing with Nellcor, Inc. in 1993 selling patient monitoring systems. She married in 1988 to Marty Churchfield and they moved to Colorado that same year.
 
She became involved with the Cherry Creek School District beginning at Cottonwood Creek Elementary in various volunteer positions including PTO president, served as President of the Cherry Creek Community Legislative Network in 2004/05 and served as a Building Coordinator for the 2003 Bond and Budget election. She was elected to the Cherry Creek School District Board of Education in 2008 and is the current board president.
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Claudine McDonald
Claudine McDonald has been married to her husband AJ for 16 years and has 2 beautiful children. Jordan, her son, is 17 and her daughter, Janai, is 14 years old. Both children attend schools within the Cherry Creek School District.
 
Ms. McDonald earned her degree in Communication at the University of Colorado, Boulder. She has trained on the topic of Healthcare Diversity/Cultural Competency issues to over 25,000 individuals in Colorado and around the country and has worked to integrate diversity perspectives into organizational structures.
 
Ms. McDonald has received 2 Governor of Colorado appointments. Governor Owens (R), appointed Claudine to the Governor’s Asian Pacific American Advisory Council where she worked to promote diversity and competency to increase quality of services for diverse communities. Governor Ritter (D), appointed her to the Senate Bill 211 Advisory Commission to Cover All Colorado Kids to promote healthcare coverage for all Colorado children.
　
She has worked for Colorado Access, a non-profit health plan, for 14 years and is the Director of the Office ​of Member & Family Affairs. In her role, she is responsible for directing the marketing and outreach initiatives for the company with multiple lines of business. In 2007, Ms. McDonald was elected to the Cherry Creek School District Board of Education, and re-elected Nov. 1, 2011 for a second four-year term.
　

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jim O’Brien
Mr. O’Brien is a seasoned executive with over 25 years of experience in developing, managing, and leading for-profit and not-for-profit organizations in the cable telecommunications and education fields. He was re-elected Nov. 1, 2011 to second four-year term as a board member of the Cherry Creek School District. In his current position, Mr. O’Brien serves as the Treasurer and Audit Committee Chair for the district.
Mr. O'Brien received his B.S. degree in Communications from Xavier University and his masters degree in Public Administration from the University of Colorado. He also served in the United States Army.
 
Over the last seven years, Mr. O’Brien has been actively engaged in several not-for-profit endeavors. He served as a board member, and later chairman, of the Cherry Creek Schools Foundation, an organization whose mission is to expand excellence in education by funding initiatives that impact student achievement. During this time, the foundation raised over 1.2 million dollars in support of its student-driven objectives. As chairman of the foundation, Mr. O’Brien led a successful strategic planning initiative that reoriented the organization’s direction in order to greatly expand its fund-raising capabilities. Mr. O’Brien currently serves on the board of Freedom Service Dogs, Inc, a not for profit organization that rescues dogs from shelters and trains them to assist people with special needs (most notably veterans), enabling them to lead more independent lives.
 
Prior to his involvement with the school district and the foundation, Mr. O’Brien served as the president and chief executive officer of the Cable Center, a not-for-profit entity located at the University of Denver. Under his leadership, the facility and programs of the Center were successfully launched and implemented.
 
Central to his experience in the for-profit sector, Mr. O’Brien served for over ten years as the president and chief operating officer of Jones Intercable, Inc., a multi-billion-dollar Colorado-based international public corporation in the cable telecommunications industry. During his tenure as president, O’Brien was instrumental in developing business strategies that allowed the company to become one of the first cable organizations to offer telephone, digital and cable internet services.
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Randy Perlis
Mr. Perlis has served on the Cherry Creek School District Board of Education since 2007. Professionally, he has more than 18 years of experience with EPA contracts with the Field Investigation Team (FIT), Technical Assistance Team (TAT), and Superfund Technical Assistance and Response Team (START). Mr. Perlis has been the START senior project manager for Counter Terrorism program since 1996. He was the project manager for the Salt Lake City 2002 Winter Olympic Games, providing support to the local, state and federal agencies before and during the Winter Games.
 
Mr. Perlis is an active member of the Front Range Hazardous Material Group, which is comprised of local front range Hazmat teams, Colorado State Patrol Hazmat, Region 8 Civil Support Team, FBI, and other state and federal WMD oriented agencies. Mr. Perlis helped design, coordinate, and participate in many counterterrorism training exercises throughout the region, including several Nunn-Lugar exercises and a Pueblo Army Depot exercise. He has also designed many small scale readiness training exercises for Federal, State, Local emergency response agencies in the region. Mr. Perlis reviews and approves Health and Safety plans for site work completed under START.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dave Willman
Mr. Willman was sworn in as the newest member during the board’s regular meeting on Nov. 14, replacing Aagje Barber, who served on the board for more than a decade. He served as the chair of the Citizens Advisory Budget Committee in Aurora, as well as posts on the Citizens Community Development Committee, the State Advisory Council for Parent Involvement in Education and the Community Asset Project.
 
You can contact the Board via email at ccsdboard@cherrycreekschools.org​
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