MaryBeth Mueller serves as the Executive Director for the Division of Education and Evangelization, and Superintendent of Catholic Schools for the Diocese of Phoenix.
MaryBeth Mueller presently serves as Executive Director, Division of Education and Evangelization and Superintendent of Schools for the Diocese of Phoenix. She has worked in Catholic education for over 40 years and has held positions of Associate Superintendent, Director of Curriculum and Personnel, Principal, Assistant Principal, and Teacher at schools in Zion, Illinois, the Dioceses of Duluth, Minnesota, Sioux Falls, South Dakota and Phoenix.
As Superintendent of Schools in the Diocese of Phoenix, Mrs. Mueller oversees 26 preschool programs, 28 elementary schools, five high schools and one private high school with over 14,500 students. In her role as Executive Director, she supervises the Offices of Family Catechesis, Safe Environment and Kino Institute ensuring appropriate education in 93 parishes.
During Mrs. Mueller’s 23-year tenure as Superintendent, the Diocese of Phoenix engaged in a capital campaign “Today’s Children, Tomorrow’s Leaders which raised $33 million dollars for school renovation, expansion and construction. Since 1992, seven new elementary schools and one new high school have opened in Metropolitan Phoenix. St. John Paul II Catholic High School is slated to be opened in 2018. In the fall of 2008, the annual “Night of Hope” signature event was launched to celebrate Catholic schools’ accomplishments and to increase the Diocese’s scholarship endowment fund.
Mrs. Mueller holds a Bachelor of Arts from the College of St. Scholastica, Duluth, Minnesota. She also has a Master’s in Education from the University of Minnesota-Duluth and holds a Specialist certificate in Educational Administration from the University of Minnesota-Duluth.
Mrs. Mueller is a member of National Catholic Education Association (NCEA) Chief Administrators for Catholic Education (CACE); a member of the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD); Past Chair of the North Central Accrediting Association (NCA) State Committee; a member of the Advanced Ed Accreditation Commission; serves on Western Catholic Education Association Elementary and Secondary Commission and past Chair of Elementary Commission and Arizona Interscholastic Association Superintendent Advisory Committee. She is a founding member of Arizona Council of American Private Education (AZCAPE) and Catholic Tuition Organization of the Diocese of Phoenix (CTODP) now called Catholic Education Arizona.
Past memberships have included Region XII and XIII Regional Representative to CACE and Supervision, Personnel and Curriculum Divisions; United States Catholic Conference Federal Assistance Advisory Commission; Pre-school Screening Advisory Board of the Scottish Rite; Committee of Practitioners State of Arizona; Valley Forge Freedom Foundation; the Arizona State University Hispanic Mother Daughter Advisory Board; Western Catholic Education Board of Directors and United Blood Services Community Leadership Committee.
Mrs. Mueller has been the recipient of the 1999 Circle of Excellence Award by Arizona North Central Accrediting Association; 2001 Elizabeth Ann Seton Award for Outstanding Leadership to Catholic Schools in the Diocese of Phoenix; 2005 O’Neil D’Amour Award for outstanding Leadership in working with school boards given by National Catholic Education Association – National Association of Boards, Commissions and Councils of Catholic Education (NABCCCE); 2007 Sr. Agnes Lamb Alumni Award, College of St. Scholastica; and 2008 Circle of Excellence Award by Arizona North Central Accrediting Association. In the fall of 2009, Ms. Mueller received the “Al” Brooks Community Leadership Award from the Anti-Defamation League.
MaryBeth Mueller was born and raised in Walhalla, N.D. She has been married to her husband Bill for 41 years and has 2 adult children, Matt and Elizabeth.