INDIANAPOLIS — Pamela Foegen, the president of the WIAA Board of Control in 2016-17, was approved by the National Federation of State High School Association National Council to serve a four-year term on the NFHS Board of Directors.

Foegen, the pupil services director at Regis Catholic Schools in Eau Claire, Wis., will serve as an at-large representative for Sections 1 and 4. She has served on the WIAA Board of Control since being elected in 2012. 

Prior to her current position with Regis Catholic Schools, Foegen taught middle school special education in the Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau School District in Galesville, Wisconsin, for four years, and served in a variety of roles with the La Crosse, Wisconsin, School District from 1983 to 2014.

Foegen was a teacher, coordinator and program support teacher in charge of special education programming in La Crosse for 21 years, and was director of special education for the La Crosse School District from 2006 to 2014. She directed a suicide prevention group for several years, and for two years served as state consultant for Students with Autism Spectrum Disorders at the Department of Public Instruction.

Foegen was co-director of a program of the National Foundation for Improvement in Education that was targeted to prevent student dropout by starting at the elementary and middle school levels.

She is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, and she earned her master’s in educational leadership and policy analysis from the University of Wisconsin in Madison.

In other NFHS election results, Gary Musselman, the executive director of the Kansas State High School Activities Association is the new president of the NFHS in 2016-17. Jerome Singleton, the commissioner of the South Carolina High School League was elected to the position of president-elect.

Other individuals elected to serve on the NFHS Board of Directors are Jack Roberts, the executive director of the Michigan High School Athletic Association in Section 4 and Mark Beckman, the executive director of the Montana High School Association in Section 8.