Ruffo joins NYSSBA board in January

On Board Online • December 15, 2014

Sandra Ruffo of Conklin joins the NYSSBA Board of Directors in January as Area 4 director. She will represent school districts from Broome, Cayuga, Chemung, Chenango, Cortland, Onondaga, Schuyler, Tioga and Tompkins counties.

Ruffo is a 30-year veteran of school board service. Since 1995, Ruffo has been on the Broome-Delaware-Tioga BOCES Board and has been president for the past 10 years. She also served on the Susquehanna Valley Central School District board for 18 years, with 15 of those years as president.

In addition to her current board service, Ruffo is a member of these school board committees: Scholarship Planning, Worker's Compensation, Audit and the Board Retreat/Goal Planning.

Ruffo graduated from Binghamton University with a bachelor's degree in biology and has a nursing degree from SUNY Broome.

She was elected by school boards in Area 4 to succeed Douglas Ann Land, who chose not to seek reelection to the NYSSBA board. Land remains a member of the Trumansburg and Tompkins-Seneca-Tioga BOCES boards, as well as member of the boards of the Rural Schools Association, the Central New York School Boards Association and the BOCES Executive Board.