Lisa Graham Keegan

Quick Facts

Full Name	Lisa Graham Keegan
Occupation	Politician
Date Of Birth	Jul 20, 1959(1959-07-20)
Age	65
Birthplace	Palo Alto
Country	United States
Birth City	California
Horoscope	Cancer

Lisa Graham Keegan Biography

Lisa Graham Keegan is one of the most popular and richest Politician who was born on July 20, 1959 in Palo Alto, California, United States. Lisa Graham Keegan, born July 20, 1959, is an American education reform advocate. She is the author of Simple Choices: Thoughts about choosing environments that support your child’s potential.

As Arizona Superintendent of Public Instruction, she was also a senior policy advisor for education to Senator John McCain’s presidential campaigns 2000 and 2008. She was vice-chair of the Republican Party’s political platform committee at the 2008 National Republican Convention, St. Paul, Minnesota, where she wrote policy statements about education issues.

In 2001, Keegan became the Chief Executive Officer of the Education Leaders Council (ELC), a non-profit, conservative education reform organization Keegan and other state school chiefs had founded in 1995. Under Keegan’s leadership, ELC gained federal funding for its project, Following the Leaders, to implement the reform policies of the new federal education law. However, an investigation by the U.S. Department of Education initially suggested that ELC did not comply with federal regulations for the funds it was expending, and federal procurement standards. A final audit, however, showed that ELC’s financial and administrative management had actually undercharged the Department of Education and outstanding grant funding was ultimately paid to the ELC and its spin-off organization, Following the Leaders by the Department of Education. Keegan’s original three-year contract was extended to September 2004, after which she became an independent education and public policy consultant.

In 2006, Keegan became a consultant to Maricopa County, Arizona and eventually assistant county manager for community solutions and innovation. She left her job in May 2008 to join the McCain presidential campaign as education policy advisor.

From 1995 to 2001, Arizona’s Superintendent for Public Instruction was Lisa Keegan. Before becoming the state superintendent, she served two terms as chair of the Education Committee in the Arizona House of Representatives between 1991 and 1995. In 1994, she was elected the first Superintendent of Public Instruction and was reelected in 1998. This election was the first in American history to have all five top-ranking executive offices held by women. Jane Dee Hull, governor; Betsey Bayless secretary of state; Janet Napolitano attorney general; Carol Springer treasurer and Keegan superintendent of public instruction.

Lisa Graham Keegan Net Worth

Lisa Graham Keegan is one of the richest Politician from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Lisa Graham Keegan 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Keegan was a former senior warden at the Episcopal Church. She was named the 1977 National Champion of the International Arabian Horse Association. In 1996, Governor Jane Hull and other state officials were absent from Arizona, Keegan was briefly the acting governor. She is a strong advocate for equality in marriage.

Keegan holds a bachelor’s in linguistics (1981) from Stanford University and a master’s in communication disorders (1983) from Arizona State University. She was awarded the Milton Friedman Foundation Award in 1998 for education-related free enterprise innovation. Athena International presented her with the Athena Award. She was also named Education Leader of Year by the National Republican Party in 1999. In 2000, she received the Adam Smith Award for Economics Education.

From 2001 to 2004, Keegan contributed to implementing education policies and programs which include the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, Following the Leaders School Implementation Program, American Board for Certification of Teacher Excellence, Washington DC School Choice Program. In 2003 she was a member of Education Secretary Rod Paige’s Title IX Commission.

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Keegan has authored numerous articles on education for Hoover Institution’s magazine Education Next and blog Liberating Learning, and other conservative groups including the Manhattan Institute and the Pioneer Institute, as well as the Arizona Republic. She co-authored the education chapter of Newt Gingrich’s 2010 book To Save America: Stopping Obama’s Secular-Socialist Machine. She has appeared as a speaker for think tanks, such as the Hoover Institute Board of Governors, Institute of Economic Affairs at the University of London, Empower America, Cato Institute, Heritage Foundation, and the American Enterprise Institute. Columnists such as George Will of Newsweek, David Brooks of the Weekly Standard, and Clint Bolick of National Review have featured Keegan’s reform agenda.

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Lisa Ranked on the list of most popular Politician. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Lisa Graham Keegan celebrates birthday on July 20 of every year.

Keegan was inducted into the National Charter School Hall of Fame in 2013, in recognition of her service promoting parental choice in education. In 2011 the Arizona Chamber of Commerce and Industry recognized Keegan’s efforts to reform education by presenting her with Milton Friedman Transformational Leader Award.