Jane Erdenberger

Jane Erdenberger is a life-long resident of Omaha. She graduated from Westside High School in 1971, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 1975 and from the George Washington National Law Center in Washington DC in 1978. She returned to Omaha to join the Kutak Rock national law firm where she was a public finance lawyer for 22 years. She earned a second Bachelor’s degree, magna cum laude, in education, retired from Kutak Rock, and taught African American History, Ethnic Studies and Honors Geography at Omaha North High Magnet School for 16 years and then taught at The Omaha Home for Boys for two-and-a-half additional years. Her husband, Mark Hoeger, is the sole proprietor of a video production company, teaches Film Language and History at the University of Nebraska – Omaha, and serves on the Learning Community Board. They have two daughters; Christian has a Master’s Degree in Psychological Counseling from Columbia University and a private practice in Omaha and Eleanor has a Master’s Degree in Museum Studies from George Washington University and is a collections specialist at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. Jane is determined to address issues of educational inequity, identify non-college based career paths and recruit, reward and retain the excellent teaching and support staff enjoyed by Omaha Public Schools.