Elizabeth Sembler

Member

Elizabeth Sembler was appointed to the CPB board by President George W. Bush and confirmed by the Senate in October 2008.

Sembler is a teacher and the director of Jewish Studies at the Pinellas County Jewish Day School in Clearwater, Florida. She has served on the board of WEDU-TV since 1993 and was the chair of its board from 2001-2003. In 2006, she joined the board of the Association of Public Television Stations, a nonprofit group which supports the continued growth and development of a strong and financially sound noncommercial television service.

Sembler is on the council of advisors of the Florida Orchestra and an executive board member of her synagogue, Congregation B'nai Israel. She received the Edward N. Ludin Young Leadership Award from the Pinellas County Jewish Federation in 2003. There, she served as campaign chair and women's division chair of the group and on the United Jewish Communities National Young Leadership Cabinet in the 1990's. In 2008, she and her husband were awarded the prestigious Tree of Life award from the Jewish National Fund.

She began her career as a staff writer for the St. Petersburg Times after earning her bachelor's degree in newspaper journalism and political science from Syracuse University. She later earned master's degree in English from the University of South Florida.

Sembler lives in Seminole, Florida, with her husband Greg, who is CEO of the Sembler Company, a shopping center development and management firm. They are the parents of four teenagers.

Her term expires in 2014.