{"id":19443,"date":"2019-01-08T12:44:10","date_gmt":"2019-01-08T18:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/regents\/?page_id=19443"},"modified":"2026-03-13T13:37:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T18:37:16","slug":"jill-underly","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/regents\/about-the-regents\/jill-underly\/","title":{"rendered":"Jill Underly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Ex Officio Member (State Superintendent)<\/strong>: July 2021 &#8211; Present<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/regents\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2024\/02\/Jill-Underly-bio-photo-scaled-e1707149541138.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-26932\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/regents\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2024\/02\/Jill-Underly-bio-photo-scaled-e1707149541138-251x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"241\" height=\"288\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/regents\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2024\/02\/Jill-Underly-bio-photo-scaled-e1707149541138-251x300.jpeg 251w, https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/regents\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2024\/02\/Jill-Underly-bio-photo-scaled-e1707149541138-857x1024.jpeg 857w, https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/regents\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2024\/02\/Jill-Underly-bio-photo-scaled-e1707149541138-768x918.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/regents\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2024\/02\/Jill-Underly-bio-photo-scaled-e1707149541138-1285x1536.jpeg 1285w, https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/regents\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2024\/02\/Jill-Underly-bio-photo-scaled-e1707149541138.jpeg 1706w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 241px) 100vw, 241px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class='zuse-mail-squared'><\/span><a href=\"mailto:statesuperintendent@dpi.wi.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">statesuperintendent@dpi.wi.gov<\/a><br \/>\n<span class='zuse-phone-squared'><\/span>608-266-8687<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Jill Underly was elected State Superintendent of Public Instruction on April 6th, 2021. Since 1999, she has worked in all facets of public education, including PK \u2013 16 as a high school and middle school social studies teacher, a University of Wisconsin College of Letters &amp; Science academic advisor, a Title I Consultant and assistant director at the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction, an elementary principal and Director of Instruction, and most recently, a rural school district superintendent.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Underly received bachelor\u2019s degrees in history and sociology from Indiana University-Bloomington, a master\u2019s degree in secondary education from Indiana University-Purdue University, and a master\u2019s degree in educational administration and a doctorate in educational leadership and policy analysis from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.<\/p>\n<p>As of September 2026, she and her husband, John, have two children, both public high school graduates who are attending UW System schools. They live on a small farm in southwestern Wisconsin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ex Officio Member (State Superintendent): July 2021 &#8211; Present statesuperintendent@dpi.wi.gov 608-266-8687 &nbsp; Dr. Jill Underly was elected State Superintendent of Public Instruction on April 6th, 2021. Since 1999, she has [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":110,"featured_media":0,"parent":4,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-19443","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/regents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/regents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/regents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/regents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/110"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/regents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19443"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/regents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28476,"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/regents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19443\/revisions\/28476"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/regents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/regents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}