2024 Special Session Wrap Up and Preview of 2025 Legislative Session

John Spatz has served as the Executive Director of the Nebraska Association of School Boards (NASB) since 2012. Prior to this, he was the legal counsel with NASB starting in 2003. As part of his role with NASB, John also serves in a leadership position with ALICAP (Chief Administrator), Sparq Data Solutions, Inc., (Chairman), NJUMP/CJUMP (Manager), Envise AMS, Inc. (Co-founder). John is the author of the “Guidebook to Nebraska’s Public Meetings Law”, which is used by schools to comply with the Open Meetings Act. Outside of his role with the NASB, he served on the Lincoln City Council from 2007 to 2011 and was the Chair of the Board in 2011. He has also served on the board for Lincoln’s Multicultural Advisory Committee, Neighborworks Lincoln, and the Partnership for Healthy Lincoln. John represents Nebraska as a voting member of the Education Commission of the States and served on the Board of Counselors at the University of Nebraska Medical Center from 2015 to 2023. John is married to Julianne Spatz and has three children in Lincoln Public Schools.