Staff Bio
Judy Rutan MPA
Transfer of Learning/ Leadership Specialist
Judy Rutan serves as the Transfer of Learning / Leadership Specialist for the Central California Training Academy. She is responsible for coordination of the Academy Field Based Trainer Program, providing oversight to field based trainers assigned to counties served by the Central Academy. In addition, Judy is responsible for the planning and implementation of the Academy’s Leadership Development and Succession Planning Program emphasizing a competency-based training program for managers and supervisors that incorporate evidence-based approaches and prepares services professionals to become leaders within Human Services organizations.
Prior to her position with the Central Academy, Judy served as a public child welfare social worker, program manager and administrator over the past seventeen years. She has also served as an executive director for the First 5 Program, as well as an educator for Chapman University teaching classes in organizational development.