Wayne Winterton

Winterton began teaching in 1963 and served as the principal of two schools on the Navajo Reservation. He was also the Superintendent of the Albuquerque Indian High School, Superintendent of Schools for the Northern Pueblos Agency, and during 1978-79, was the interim President of the Institute of American Indian Arts, a junior college in Santa Fe. From 1979 to 1986, he worked for the federal Office of Surface Mining in Missouri and Oklahoma. In 1986, he joined the staff of the Bureau of Land Management's National Training Center in Phoenix, Arizona, as the Division Chief for Administrative and Media Services and briefly as Center Director. He retired in 2004 with over 40 years of public service. He received his PhD from the University of New Mexico in 1976 and is a member of the Arizona Authors Association.