dr. david jensen bio

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Dr. David Jensen currently serves as the Superintendent of Schools for Humboldt County School District, a position he has held for over 12 years. Set to retire at the end of the 2024-2025 school year, Dr. Jensen has spent his entire career with the Humboldt County School District, beginning as a School Psychologist. In response to statewide fiscal challenges, he was soon assigned as Director of Federal Programs, significantly increasing funding to support essential educational initiatives. He was later promoted to Associate Superintendent for Business and Finance, a position he held for 18 months, before becoming Assistant Superintendent. After five years in this role, Dr. Jensen was selected as Superintendent of Schools in 2012, where he will have served for 13 years by his retirement.

In addition to his leadership within HCSD, Dr. Jensen has contributed extensively to education throughout Nevada. He has served as Secretary-Treasurer and President of the Nevada Association of School Superintendents (NASS) and was recognized as Superintendent of the Year by NASS in 2017, receiving additional recognition from the American Association of School Administrators (AASA) and the Nevada Association of School Boards (NASB). He represented NASS on the Nevada State Board of Education for three years, served as a Governor's appointee on the State School Safety Task Force, and has been an inaugural member of the School Finance Commission since 2019, appointed by the minority leader.

Dr. Jensen has extensive experience at the National level, and was recognized as a finalist for AASA President, providing strong representation for Nevada at the national level. In addition, he served for eight years on the AASA Governing Board and participated in the Life Touch Memory Mission, helping build a bottle school in rural Guatemala.

Dr. Jensen earned a Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Psychology, followed by a Master of Arts (M.A.) and Specialist Certification in Educational Psychology with a focus on School Psychology from Brigham Young University (BYU). He later completed his Administrative Credential and earned a Doctorate in Education (Ed.D) from the University of Nevada, Reno (UNR).

With expertise in school budgeting and finance, contract negotiations, human resources, school safety, special education, psychology, school psychology, and policy development, Dr. Jensen offers consulting services through his firm, Jensen Professional Services, LLC.