As one of its last acts before adjourning for the year, the U.S. Senate voted in the wee hours of Saturday morning to confirm Sara Martinez Tucker, a member of the federal Commission on the Future of Higher Education, as undersecretary of education, the No. 3 position under Education Secretary Margaret Spellings.
Ms. Tucker, president and chief executive of the Hispanic Scholarship Fund, will be responsible for carrying out the Spellings commission’s recommendations. She will also oversee federal policies, programs, and activities related to vocational and adult education, postsecondary education, and college aid.
Before joining the Hispanic Scholarship Fund, in 1997, Ms. Tucker spent 16 years at AT&T, where she became the first Latina to reach the company’s executive level. She received a B.A. in journalism and an M.B.A. from the University of Texas at Austin.
