Juanita F. Francis has extensive background and interest in healthcare and education. She is a licensed RN and holds an MBA in healthcare management. Francis was a women’s health nurse in Illinois, Ohio and Massachusetts before she moved to Arizona in 1998. She has worked for the University of Arizona College of Medicine, Hispanic Center of Excellence and Phoenix Children’s Hospital before she retired to become a full-time volunteer.

Beyond her professional career, she has a long history of philanthropic and community involvement. President of the F2 Family Foundation, she currently serves on the boards of the University of Illinois Foundation, the Arizona State University Foundation and Enterprise Partners, Planned Parenthood Arizona and is Chair of the Board for Maricopa Health Foundation. She and her husband Philip, retired executive chairman of PetSmart, have four children and eight grandchildren and a dog called Scruggs.

Jackie Norton, as President and CEO of the Rodel Foundation, promotes the vision and develops the strategies for improving Arizona’s public education system. Rodel is currently transitioning from a program-based improvement model to one based on public policy advocacy. To promote the systemic change necessary to improve Arizona’s entire K-12 system, Rodel is collaborating with the Arizona Community Foundation and other organizations who share its vision.

Prior to joining the Rodel Foundation, Norton served as vice president of the Arizona University Foundation. She is a lawyer by profession and was a partner in the Phoenix law firm Gallagher & Kennedy. She obtained her undergraduate degree from Stanford University and her law degree from ASU. She serves on the Board of Directors of the Arizona Chamber of Commerce and Industry and a number of education-related organizations.

Cindy Watts is co-founder, with her husband, Mike, of Sunstate Equipment, a highly successful equipment rental company that began in Arizona in 1977 and has expanded to ten other states. In October 2018, the Watts made a $30 million gift to ASU's public-service college, which was renamed the Watts College of Public Service and Community Solutions. They have also made leadership gifts to the Maryvale YMCA and endowed the Center for Violence Prevention and Community Safety at ASU.

The Watts have been engaged with the university since 1988 and are lifetime members of the ASU President's Club. In October 2015, they made a transformative investment to name the Watts Center for Academic Excellence and Championship Life, an initiative within Sun Devil Athletics. In addition to these ASU commitments, Cindy also has served as co-chair of the Women & Philanthropy program at the ASU Foundation for A New American University and currently serves as vice-chair of the Trustees of ASU, an advisory body for the university and ASU President Michael M. Crow. In February 2018, the ASU Alumni Association honored Mike and Cindy Watts as Philanthropists of the Year at its annual Founders’ Day event.