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As she takes the helm of Foothill College, Judy Miner will leave behind a legacy at De Anza College that helped shape it to the safe and vibrant place of learning it is today.

Having served as vice president of instruction for De Anza, she looks forward to the challenges that await for her.

Miner, who grew up attendng Catholic school, was the only one of five children in her family to attend college.

Miner graduated summa cum laude with a bachelor's degree in history and French from Lone Mountain College in San Francisco in 1973. She continued to further her education, earning a master's degree in history in 1977 while teaching.

She has continued to work with other colleges in and out of California, including Imperial Valley College in Arizona.

She started at De Anza in 1988 and has been working in a variety of positions ever since. During her 19 years service at De Anza, her time as the VP of instruction, she says, is the most memorable "because of the quantity and the quality of the people" she worked with. In the De Anza's President's Report in 2003, Miner said, "De Anza's groundwork has already been laid with sound practices and principles that have carried us through other difficult times … I believe we can and should be as creative and forward thinking as ever."

De Anza still holds the record for one of the most successful colleges in terms of student transfers to other four-year universities. Miner always loved to teach, which will be one of the things she will miss doing. "I have been blessed to be part of De Anza over the years," she said.

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