Former Gov. and U.S. Rep. Mike Castle sworn in as DSU Board member

The DSU Board of Trustees officially swore in former Gov. Michael N. Castle as a new board member during its Sept. 19 regular meeting.

 

In June, Gov. Jack Markell appointed the former Delaware governor and Congressman to serve a six-year term on the DSU Board of Trustees. In joining the board, Mr. Castle succeeds former board member Dr. Calvin T. Wilson, whose six-year term expired in August 2012.

 

Mr. Castle is a former two-term Delaware governor (1985-1992). He is the third former governor to serve as an official member on the institution's Board of Trustees. Former Governors Ebe W. Tunnell and Simeon S. Pennewill served on the Board of Trustees of the then-State College for Colored Students.

 

After serving as governor, he went on to be a nine-term U.S. Congressman (1993-2011) representing the First State. He has also served as lieutenant governor (1981-1985), state senator (1968-1976) and state representative (1966-1967).

 

During his state Senate years, he was the minority leader from 1975-1976. In total, Mr. Castle served as an elected public servant for 40 years.

 

As a Congressman, Mr. Castle was chair of the House Subcommittee on Education Reform, in which he played a major role in shaping the No Child Left Behind legislation signed into law by President George Bush. He also forged enacted legislation designed to improve the quality and relevance of education research through new standards of scientific rigor.

 

An attorney and member of the Delaware Bar and the Washington D.C. Bar, Mr. Castle is currently a partner of DLA Piper, a government affairs practice that maintains offices in Wilmington, New York City and Washington, D.C.  During his legal practice years, he was an associate attorney and later a partner of the Wilmington law firm of Connelly, Bove and Lodge from 1964-1975. He also served from 1965 to 1966 as a Delaware deputy attorney general.

 

Mr. Castle has a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics from Hamilton College in Clinton, N.Y., and a Juris Doctorate from Georgetown University Law Center of Washington, D.C.

 

He was born and raised in Wilmington, Del., where he currently lives with his wife Jane.