Governor-elect Tom Corbett   has selected his nominee to lead the Pennsylvania Department of Education. Ronald J. Tomalis is currently director of Dutko Worldwide/Whiteboard Advisers. He is an education consultant with an extensive background in education programs and services at the elementary, secondary and post-secondary levels who has worked extensively with No Child Left Behind.

Mr. Tomalis served as chief of staff under U.S. Education Secretary Eugene Hickock, and as special assistant to U.S. Secretary of Education Rod Paige. He also served as executive deputy secretary of education in the Ridge Administration when Mr. Hickock was the Pennsylvania Secretary of Education.

He is a graduate of Dickinson College where Mr. Hickock was a professor.

His nomination is subject to Senate confirmation.