Recently retired as superintendent of the Lennox School District, an urban elementary school district serving 7,000 predominantly minority students near Los Angeles Airport. Bruce has nearly 40 years of experience in public education, having served as superintendent, assistant superintendent, principal, counselor, and classroom teacher. Bruce served on the Advisory Committee for the School of Education for Pepperdine, Loyola, University of Southern California, and California State, Dominguez Hills, Universities. He also served on the executive committee of the following educational organizations: Coalition for Adequate School Housing (CASH), School Employers Association of California (SEAC), Advanced Educational Technology Consortium (ADTECH), Centinela South Bay School Insurance Authority, Los Angeles Regionalized Insurance Services Authority (LARISA), Schools Alliance for Worker’s Compensation Excess, and Alliance of Schools for Cooperative Insurance Programs (ASCIP). Additionally, he was appointed to the School Facilities Planning Division’s Advisory Committee for the California Dept. of Education. He has presented as guest lecturer at the University of Southern California, University of California, Los Angeles; California State University, Dominguez Hills; Pepperdine University, and the Association of California School Administrators (ACSA) Superintendent’s Academy. Bruce earned his Doctorate of Education in Educational Administration from the University of Southern California, received a Master’s of Science in Counseling from California State University, Long Beach, and received his B.A. from the University of California, Los Angeles.