Dr. Catherine Gottfred is the 2008 ASHA President and founder of Leap Learning Systems in Chicago. She has spent the past 19 years overseeing the development and delivery of literacy training programs and curricula to educators working with underserved youth.

Ms. Sue Hale is Director of Clinical Education and Assistant Professor in the Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences at Vanderbilt University. An ASHA fellow, she is the 2008 ASHA President-Elect with extensive previous service in the areas of clinical standards and professional ethics. She received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of Mississippi.

Dr. Jeri Logemann is the Ralph and Jean Sundin Professor of Communication Sciences and Disorders at Northwestern University and Professor of Otolaryngology and Neurology at Feinberg School of Medicine of Northwestern University. She directs the Speech, Language, Voice and Swallowing Service at Northwestern Memorial Hospital. Dr. Logemann’s research interests include the management of voice disorders, normal swallowing physiology, the assessment and treatment of speech and swallowing dysfunction in treated head and neck cancer patients and neurologically impaired individuals, and in the development of randomized clinical trials. She is a Fellow of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA), the Illinois Speech-Language-Hearing Association, and the Chicago Medical Society. Dr. Logemann served as President of ASHA in 1994 and 2000.

Mr. Eugene Wiggins is the current Director of the Speech and Hearing Clinic, University of the District of Columbia and is a former Executive Director of NBALSH. Mr. Wiggins is an ASHA fellow and has received Honors of the Association from NBASLH. He has received degrees from Hampton University and the University of Michigan.