Naomi K Cohen

Naomi K. Cohen of Bloomfield has served in numerous educational leadership positions, including four years as House Chair of the General Assembly’s Education Committee while she was a State Representative from 1983-1993. Most recently she was the Chair of the State’s Community-Technical Colleges Board of Trustees. At the local, regional and national levels, Mrs. Cohen has been Vice-Chair of the Education Commission of the States, the CT public member on the Board of Trustees of the New England Association of Schools and Colleges, Vice-Chair of the Bloomfield Board of Education and member of the National Assessment Governing Board, to which she was appointed by the United States Secretary of Education. Currently she serves as Chair of the Bloomfield Elementary Schools Building Committee and the Hartford Jewish Coalition for Literacy, an organization she co-founded that provides reading tutors for at-risk K-3rd grade students in six Greater Hartford communities. An alumna of Charter Oak State College, Mrs. Cohen holds a master’s degree in public administration from the Barney School of the University of Hartford.