Eugene W. Hickok, Deputy Secretary of Education

Dr. Eugene W. Hickok is the United States Deputy Secretary of Education. President Bush named him to the position on April 19, 2004. Hickok had served since July 2003 as both under secretary of education and acting deputy secretary of education. The deputy secretary is the chief policy advisor to the secretary. In this position, Hickok oversees and manages the development of policies, recommendations and initiatives that help define a broad, coherent vision for achieving the president's education priorities, including the No Child Left Behind Act.

Prior to his appointment, Dr. Hickok was Pennsylvania's Secretary of Education, responsible for overseeing the state's education system - kindergarten through college. Dr. Hickok also was a founding member and chairman of the Education Leaders Council, a group of reform-minded education chiefs who oversee 30 percent of the nation's K-12 public school students.
For 15 years, Dr. Hickok taught political science at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, and served as director of the college's Clarke Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Contemporary Issues. He also was an adjunct professor at the Dickinson School of Law.