Board of Directors
Phyllis Polk Johnson, DNP, RN, FNP-BC, President
(2024-2026)
Phyllis Polk Johnson was appointed the Executive Director of the Mississippi Board of Nursing in 2017. She has served on the Nurse Licensure Compact Executive Committee for the past two years. In November 2014, she joined the staff of the Mississippi Board of Nursing as the Director of Advanced Practice and has served in the following capacities: Director of Investigations, Board of Medical Licensure Advisory Board for Physician Assistants, Advisory Board Project Change Initiative, Pharmacy Board PMP Advisory Council, Governor’s Heroin and Opioid Drug Task Force, 2020 Governor’s COVID-19 Advisory Group. Phyllis was selected as the Mississippi Business Journal Business Woman of the Year (2019).
Jose Delfin D. Castillo III, PhD, MSNA, CRNA, APRN, President-Elect
(2024-2026)
Dr. Castillo completed his BSN in 1994 and has been an APRN-CRNA in Naples, FL, since 2007. In 2016, he earned his Ph.D. in Instructional Design and Technology from Keiser University. He is a tenured remote Associate Professor at Texas Wesleyan University. As an active advocate for the nursing profession through local to international involvements, he was the recipient of the 2021 AANA Ira P. Gunn Outstanding Professional Advocacy Award. As a member of the Florida Board of Nursing, he continues to contribute to healthcare by volunteering and presenting scholarly topics of interest to the nursing profession and the public.
Lori Scheidt, MBA-HCM, Treasurer
(2023-2025)
Lori Scheidt, MBA-HCM, is the Executive Director of the Missouri State Board of Nursing. She has served on numerous NCSBN committees including chair of the Fraud Detection Committee and Member Board Agreement Review Committee. She served as Vice-Chair of the Nurse Licensure Compact Administrators Executive Committee for four years and has been very active with the Enhanced Nurse Licensure Compact including serving on the Legislative Strategy Team and Model Rules and Implementation Work Group. She has been the recipient of the Exceptional Contribution and Meritorious Service Awards.
Danette Schloeder, DNP, RNC-OB, C-EFM, C-ONQS, Area I Director
(2023-2025)
Danette Schloeder has served as the RN Member of the Alaska Board of Nursing since 2019, where she currently serves as the Chair. Danette has been in nursing for 29 years with roles as an obstetrical nurse, nurse educator, and perinatal clinical specialist. She is currently a Senior Perinatal Clinical Specialist at a Children’s Hospital and an Associate Professor for a nursing program. She has served on a national task force to create recommendations for combating severe maternal morbidity and mortality. Danette previously served on the NCLEX Examination Committee through the development and launch of the NGN. Danette’s experience provides her with expertise in clinical, academic, and regulatory venues.
Sue Painter, DNP, RN, Area II Director
(2023-2025)
Dr. Painter is the Executive Director at the West Virginia Board of Registered Nurses. She served on the NCSBN Finance Committee for 4 years and the NLC Research Committee since its formation. Under her leadership many NCSBN initiatives have been implemented for West Virginia, including adoption of the Nurse Licensure Compact. Just prior to the pandemic, ORBS was executed for licensing in conjunction with Nursys® for licensure verification. For more than 20 years, Dr. Painter has worked as a volunteer at the West Virginia Camp for Children with Diabetes, known as Camp Kno-Koma and she serves on the Board of Directors. She was honored in 2022 with the West Virginia Future of Nursing Nurse Excellence Award.
Vacant, Area III Director
Barbara Blozen, EdD, MA, RN, BC CNL, Area IV Director
(2023-2025)
Barbara Blozen is president of the New Jersey Board of Nursing (NJBON) and a tenured professor at New Jersey City University, she earned her Masters degree from NYU and her doctoral degree from Seton Hall University. During her tenure at the NJBON, the BON implemented the Nurse Licensure Compact and Blozen served as an interim NLC Commissioner. She has been recognized twice as a grant recipient for the Robert Wood Johnson New Careers in Nursing, and for the AACN Gold Initiative to expand the Gold Foundation's White Coat Ceremony, which led to implementing the iconic ritual of humanism at New Jersey City University. Blozen is widely published and has presented across the country and internationally on a variety of subjects, including transition to practice, nurse licensure, the nurse practice act and mentoring to name a few. In 2020 Blozen earned a Certificate in Health Policy and Media Engagement from The George Washington University School of Nursing via an NCSBN scholarship. She is also a member of the inaugural class of NCSBN’s International Center for Regulatory Scholarship.
Tony Graham, MS, CPM, Director-at-large
(2022-2026)
Tony Graham is a Certified Public Manager with over 30 years of management experience with nearly twenty of those years in nursing regulation. Tony is the Chief Operations Officer for the North Carolina Board of Nursing where he is responsible for the overall physical plant and day to day operations, to include customer support and licensure processes. He’s an active participate of NCSBN and enjoys membership engagement. Through the years he has served on several committees to include the Finance Committee, NLC education and training committee, Agreement Review Committee, and chair of the Leadership Succession Committee.
Ann Oertwich, PhD, RN, Director-at-large
(2024-2026)
Ann Oertwich has served as Executive Director (ED) of the Nebraska Board of Nursing since 2016. This role also includes management of the Nebraska APRN Board and the Nebraska Center for Nursing. Past roles include Executive Director of the Nebraska Nurses Association, as well as a member of the Nebraska Board of Nursing. Ann has also spent over 13 years as a nursing faculty member in various nursing programs in Nebraska. Ann’s clinical practice background includes hospice, home health, and ostomy/wound care; as well as speaking about professional nursing practice issues for the past 30 years. Ann has been actively engaged in NCSBN as an ED since 2018. Ann served as treasurer of the Nurse Licensure Compact (NLC) from 2018 – 2022, and currently serves as Chair of the NLC Training & Education Committee.
Missy Poortenga, MHA, RN, Director-at-large
(2024-2026)
Missy Poortenga has served as the executive officer of the Montana Board of Nursing since 2018. She has spent the last two decades working somewhere in the spectrum of healthcare settings including assisted living, acute care, clinical trials research, quality improvement and most recently, nursing regulation. Missy has served on a number of committees, including the Nurse Licensure Compact (NLC) Executive Committee from 2020 to 2024, the NLC Policy Committee since 2021 and the Model Act and Rules committee in 2024.
Tammy Vaughn, MSN, RN, CNE, Director-at-large
(2024-2026)
Tammy Vaughn has been the Program Coordinator for Education and Licensure at the Arkansas Board of Nursing since 2011. She has served on the NCSBN NCLEX Examination Committee (NEC) for five years and the NCLEX Item Review Subcommittee (NIRSC) for six years. Tammy was privileged to complete the NCSBN International Center for Regulatory Scholarship (ICRS) program in the second graduating class. Having been a nurse for almost 30 years, Tammy served in a variety of clinical nursing roles including, women’s health nurse, maternal/newborn nurse, and as a nurse educator. She has also earned the distinction as a NLN Certified Nurse Educator (CNE).