Wilson to Step Down as NEA Executive Director; John Stocks to Get Job
EIA has learned that John Wilson, NEA’s executive director for the past 10 years, will retire next August. NEA President Dennis Van Roekel named deputy executive director John Stocks as his replacement.
Wilson has had a long career within NEA, working his way through the hierarchy of the North Carolina Association of Educators and sitting on the NEA Executive Committee. He ran for the presidency of NEA in 1989, losing to Keith Geiger. Wilson then returned to North Carolina to serve as that affiliate’s executive director.
In 2000, Wilson was one of three finalists to replace outgoing NEA executive director Don Cameron – a group that included retired Rear Admiral John F. Sigler. Wilson was named to the post on September 8, 2000.
John Stocks was an assistant executive director for the Wisconsin Education Association Council before moving to NEA headquarters in 2003 to head up the national union’s Great Public Schools Action Plan (remember that?). He was named NEA deputy executive director in 2004.
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