New Jersey School Boards Association
Marie Bilik
Executive Director
New Jersey School Boards Association
Marie S. Bilik has worked for the New Jersey School Boards Association since 1993. In September 2007, the Association's Board of Directors selected Bilikto serve as the Association's eighth executive director. Her term began November 1, 2007. Her experience in the Association ranges from advocacy to direct services, and her experience prior to working for NJSBA ranges from serving on a school board to serving as a mayor in Sussex County.
Before being selected as NJSBA executive director, Bilik served as the Association's director of field services, a unit comprising a fourth of NJSBA's staff. The field service staff specializes in services designed to assist local school boards in their governance of public school districts. Prior to that, she worked as NJSBA's membership advocacy coordinator, as a field service representative and as a county program coordinator.
In addition to managing the Association's field service operations, Bilik coordinated efforts by Association leaders to develop NJSBA's long range plan and efforts by staff to devise strategies to accomplish the plan's goals.
For Bilik, critical goals include advocating local school districts' interests as legislators develop a new school finance system, acclimating NJSBA members to the state's new school monitoring system—especially its focus on school board governance and student achievement—and helping board members comply with newly expanded state training requirements.
A resident of Sussex County, she served as a board of education member from 1981-1988, a council member in Green Township from 1988-1993, and mayor in 1993. She is currently a member of the township planning board and its historical society.
Bilik and her husband, Paul, have five children and eight grandchildren.