Dan Makley
Diocese of Boise
Sr. Jean Williams, OP
Diocese of Fresno
Louise Wong
Diocese of Honolulu
Richard Facciolo
Diocese of Las Vegas
Carol Hoffer
Archdiocese of Los Angeles
Nina Russo
Diocese of Monterey
Kathleen Radecke
Diocese of Oakland
Sally Todd
Diocese of Orange
MaryBeth Mueller
Diocese of Phoenix
Debilyn Janota
Diocese of Portland
Kitty Bergin
Diocese of Reno
Gail Sherman
Diocese of Sacramento
Sr. Catherine Kamphaus,CSC
Diocese of Salt Lake City
Patricia Vesely
Diocese of San Bernardino
Patricia Bannon
Diocese of San Diego
Sr. Marianne Viani, SNJM
Archdiocese of San Francisco
Priscilla Murphy
Diocese of San Jose
John Collins
Diocese of Santa Rosa
Rosemary J.Henry
Archdiocese Seattle
  Duane Schafer
Diocese of Spokane
Tom Butler
Diocese of Stockton
Sr. Rosa Maria Ruiz, CFMM
Diocese of Tucson

The Catholic Elementary Schools were founded essentially as parish schools after the Council of Baltimore in 1884.  For over 100 years these schools were conducted by various Religious Orders of men and women. 

The purpose of the Catholic parish school was primarily to teach the Roman Catholic faith.  The second purpose was to develop an academic curriculum that would be permeated with the values taught in the Roman Catholic Church. 

Over the years it became more important to guarantee the parents and the parish that the elementary school was academically sound and spiritually formative for its students.  School accreditation was a means to that end. 

In the late 1950s and early 1960s the Western Catholic Educational Association came into being with its emphasis on the Catholic identity of the school as well as its academic program.  Today all Catholic elementary schools (both parish and private) are fully accredited by the WCEA in California and Hawaii.  To date seven other western states have adopted the WCEA process for school accreditation with the same purposes in mind.