Board of Directors
Phyllis Polk Johnson, DNP, RN, FNP-BC, President
(2024-2026)
Phyllis Polk Johnson was appointed the Executive Director of the Mississippi Board of Nursing in 2017. She has served on the Nurse Licensure Compact Executive Committee for the past two years. In November 2014, she joined the staff of the Mississippi Board of Nursing as the Director of Advanced Practice and has served in the following capacities: Director of Investigations, Board of Medical Licensure Advisory Board for Physician Assistants, Advisory Board Project Change Initiative, Pharmacy Board PMP Advisory Council, Governor’s Heroin and Opioid Drug Task Force, 2020 Governor’s COVID-19 Advisory Group. Phyllis was selected as the Mississippi Business Journal Business Woman of the Year (2019).
Jose Delfin D. Castillo III, PhD, MSNA, CRNA, APRN, President-Elect
(2024-2026)
Dr. Castillo completed his BSN in 1994 and has been an APRN-CRNA in Naples, FL, since 2007. In 2016, he earned his Ph.D. in Instructional Design and Technology from Keiser University. He is a tenured remote Associate Professor at Texas Wesleyan University. As an active advocate for the nursing profession through local to international involvements, he was the recipient of the 2021 AANA Ira P. Gunn Outstanding Professional Advocacy Award. As a member of the Florida Board of Nursing, he continues to contribute to healthcare by volunteering and presenting scholarly topics of interest to the nursing profession and the public.
Lori Scheidt, MBA-HCM, Treasurer
(2023-2025)
Lori Scheidt, MBA-HCM, is the Executive Director of the Missouri State Board of Nursing. She has served on numerous 澳门六合彩开奖结果 committees including chair of the Fraud Detection Committee and Member Board Agreement Review Committee. She served as Vice-Chair of the Nurse Licensure Compact Administrators Executive Committee for four years and has been very active with the Enhanced Nurse Licensure Compact including serving on the Legislative Strategy Team and Model Rules and Implementation Work Group. She has been the recipient of the Exceptional Contribution and Meritorious Service Awards.
Danette Schloeder, DNP, RNC-OB, C-EFM, C-ONQS, Area I Director
(2023-2025)
Danette Schloeder has served as the RN Member of the Alaska Board of Nursing since 2019, where she currently serves as the Chair. Danette has been in nursing for 29 years with roles as an obstetrical nurse, nurse educator, and perinatal clinical specialist. She is currently a Senior Perinatal Clinical Specialist at a Children’s Hospital and an Associate Professor for a nursing program. She has served on a national task force to create recommendations for combating severe maternal morbidity and mortality. Danette previously served on the NCLEX Examination Committee through the development and launch of the NGN. Danette’s experience provides her with expertise in clinical, academic, and regulatory venues.
Sue Painter, DNP, RN, Area II Director
(2023-2025)
Dr. Painter is the Executive Director at the West Virginia Board of Registered Nurses. She served on the 澳门六合彩开奖结果 Finance Committee for 4 years and the NLC Research Committee since its formation. Under her leadership many 澳门六合彩开奖结果 initiatives have been implemented for West Virginia, including adoption of the Nurse Licensure Compact. Just prior to the pandemic, ORBS was executed for licensing in conjunction with Nursys® for licensure verification. For more than 20 years, Dr. Painter has worked as a volunteer at the West Virginia Camp for Children with Diabetes, known as Camp Kno-Koma and she serves on the Board of Directors. She was honored in 2022 with the West Virginia Future of Nursing Nurse Excellence Award.
Vacant, Area III Director
Barbara Blozen, EdD, MA, RN, BC CNL, Area IV Director
(2023-2025)
Barbara Blozen is president of the New Jersey Board of Nursing (NJBON) and a tenured professor at New Jersey City University, she earned her Masters degree from NYU and her doctoral degree from Seton Hall University. During her tenure at the NJBON, the BON implemented the Nurse Licensure Compact and Blozen served as an interim NLC Commissioner. She has been recognized twice as a grant recipient for the Robert Wood Johnson New Careers in Nursing, and for the AACN Gold Initiative to expand the Gold Foundation's White Coat Ceremony, which led to implementing the iconic ritual of humanism at New Jersey City University. Blozen is widely published and has presented across the country and internationally on a variety of subjects, including transition to practice, nurse licensure, the nurse practice act and mentoring to name a few. In 2020 Blozen earned a Certificate in Health Policy and Media Engagement from The George Washington University School of Nursing via an 澳门六合彩开奖结果 scholarship. She is also a member of the inaugural class of 澳门六合彩开奖结果’s International Center for Regulatory Scholarship.
Tony Graham, MS, CPM, Director-at-large
(2022-2026)
Tony Graham is a Certified Public Manager with over 30 years of management experience with nearly twenty of those years in nursing regulation. Tony is the Chief Operations Officer for the North Carolina Board of Nursing where he is responsible for the overall physical plant and day to day operations, to include customer support and licensure processes. He’s an active participate of 澳门六合彩开奖结果 and enjoys membership engagement. Through the years he has served on several committees to include the Finance Committee, NLC education and training committee, Agreement Review Committee, and chair of the Leadership Succession Committee.