Mary J. Cochran - Council Member, County of Kauai, State of Hawaii
Thursday, 09 July 2009 04:20
Cynthia de Castro / AJPress Los Angeles
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MARY Cochran is the seventh of 12 children born to Guillermo and Maxima Ribucan who migrated to Hawaii from the Philippines in 1926. This fact of migration is important to Mary as it speaks volumes of the values imparted to her and her siblings by their parents: the willingness of parents to take risks for a better life for their children. Cochran graduated from Chaminade University of Honolulu. She became a licensed attorney following graduation from the Richardson School of Law at the University of Hawaii. She was first elected to the Hawaii State Board of Education in November, 2002 and re-elected in November, 2006. Her term as a council member of the Maui District expires on 2010. She is Vice Chair of the Committee on Curriculum, Instruction & Student Support and a Member of the Committees on Administrative Services; Budget & Fiscal Accountability.
The Hawaii State Board of Education consists of 14 members, who were elected according to geographic region or at-large. As a member of the BOE, Cochran has the following roles: (1) to set education policies for the public school system, adopt student performance standards and the means to assess them, and monitor school success in order to enable all public school students to acquire the knowledge, skills, respect for learning and attributes necessary for life-long learning and productive and responsible citizenship, and (2) to set policies and standards for the public library system and monitor progress toward their attainment in order to enable the public libraries to provide all people with the products and services necessary for literacy and life-long learning.
Mary has two children and five grandchildren and one great-grand child. ( www.asianjournal.com )
( Published on July 9, 2009 in Asian Journal Las Vegas p.B4 )
