Margaret Spellings

Margaret Spellings
8th United States Secretary of Education
In office January 20, 2005 – January 20, 2009
President	George W. Bush
Deputy	Raymond Simon
Preceded by	Rod Paige
Succeeded by	Arne Duncan
Director of the Domestic Policy Council
In office January 30, 2002 – January 5, 2005
President	George W. Bush
Preceded by	John Bridgeland
Succeeded by	Claude Allen
President of the University of North Carolina
In office March 1, 2016 – March 1, 2019
Preceded by	Thomas W. Ross
Succeeded by	William L. Roper (interim)
Personal details
Born	Margaret M. Dudar (1957-11-30) November 30, 1957 (age 66) Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S.
Political party	Republican
Spouse(s)	Gregg LaMontagne (divorced) Robert Spellings (divorced)
Children	2 daughters
Education	University of Houston (BA)

Margaret M. LaMontagne Spellings (née Dudar; born November 30, 1957) is an American government and non-profit executive who serves as president and CEO of the Bipartisan Policy Center.^[1] She previously served as the eighth United States secretary of education from 2005 to 2009. After leaving the government, Spellings served as president of the University of North Carolina System, overseeing the seventeen campus system from 2016 to 2019. She then served as president and CEO of Texas 2036 from 2019 to 2023.^[2]

Spellings worked in several positions under George W. Bush during his tenure as Governor of Texas and President of the United States. She was one of the principal proponents of the 2001 No Child Left Behind Act that aimed at reforming primary and secondary education. She served as education secretary for the entire second term of Bush's administration, during which time she convened the Commission on the Future of Higher Education to recommend reform at the post-secondary level.