Tom Luna

Who is Tom Luna?

Thomas "T-Mac" Luna is the current Superintendent of Public Instruction in Idaho. He was elected to the position in 2006. Luna was re-elected in 2010 following a challenge from the former superintendent of the Boise School District.

Luna served on the Nampa School Board for seven years, three as chairman, and on the Idaho Achievement Standards Commission and Idaho Assessment and Accountability Commission. From 2003 to 2005 Luna worked for the U.S. Department of Education as an adviser to then-U.S. Secretary of Education Rod Paige. He is the owner and president of Scales Unlimited, Inc., an industrial truck scale company. In 2012, Presidential candidate Mitt Romney named Luna to Romney's 19-member education policy advisory group, the only state superintendent to be chosen for the panel.