Vicki Phillips (born about 1958) is an educator who has held government and non-profit positions in various parts of the United States. Phillips was Secretary of the

Pennsylvania Department of Education The Pennsylvania Department of Education is the executive department of the state charged with publicly funded preschool, K-12 and adult educational budgeting, management and guidelines. As the state education agency, its activities are directed by ...

from 2003 to 2004, and previously served as Superintendent of the

School District of Lancaster The School District of Lancaster is a large, urban school district of 11,300 students educated in 19 schools in central Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Established in 1836, it is the second oldest school district in the state. School District ...

Lancaster, Pennsylvania Lancaster, ( ; pdc, Lengeschder) is a city in and the county seat of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. It is one of the oldest inland cities in the United States. With a population at the 2020 census of 58,039, it ranks 11th in population amon ...

. She left Pennsylvania to become the Superintendent of Portland Public Schools in

Portland, Oregon Portland (, ) is a port city in the Pacific Northwest and the largest city in the U.S. state of Oregon. Situated at the confluence of the Willamette and Columbia rivers, Portland is the county seat of Multnomah County, the most populous co ...

, where she served until 2007, when she was hired by the

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF), a merging of the William H. Gates Foundation and the Gates Learning Foundation, is an American private foundation founded by Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates. Based in Seattle, Washington, it was l ...

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Profile on the Gates Foundation web site
Living people Secretaries of Education of Pennsylvania 1950s births 21st-century American women educators 20th-century American women educators School superintendents in Pennsylvania Politicians from Portland, Oregon Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation people Portland Public Schools (Oregon) 21st-century American educators School superintendents in Oregon 20th-century American educators {{Oregon-politician-stub