

Butts is currently a member of the Indiana University Education Law Advisory Board, ParentSquare Advisory Council, and Purdue University Educational Leadership and Policy Studies Advisory Board. Jennifer McCormick, Indiana Superintendent of Public Instruction, and served on several advisory committees with the Indiana Department of Education. He was selected to serve on the transition team for Dr. Butts has held many leadership positions in the Indiana Association of Public School Superintendents, past board chair with the Hendricks Regional Health (HRH) YMCA, president of the Indiana Partnershare, and past president for the Indiana Urban Schools Association (IUSA). He is the 2019 AASA National Superintendent of the Year Runner-up, and a recipient of the 2019 IAPSS Indiana Superintendent of the Year, Ed Tech Digital Trailblazer Award from Indiana COSN, Administrator of the Year from the Indiana High School Press Association, the Indiana Council for Exceptional Children Advocate of the Year, Minority Police Officers Association Award for Outstanding Work in the Community, Cause Driven Leadership Award from the YMCA, Indiana National Guard Awards for Exceptional Support to the Community, The Center for Digital Education Digital Content and Curriculum Achievement Award, Hobson’s Education Advances Award, the Center for Digital Education Top 30 Technologists, Transformers and Trailblazers, and District V Principal of the Year from the Indiana Association of School Principals.ĭr. Butts is currently a Broad Fellow Candidate at the Yale School of Management. He became the fifth superintendent in the history of the M.S.D. Over the past 29 years he has held positions as a bus driver, coach, teacher, athletic director, principal, assistant superintendent, and now superintendent. He began his career as a public educator in 1992 in central Illinois. Jeff Butts is a proud graduate of Millikin University (BS), Illinois State University (MS), and Purdue University (PhD).


