Interim Superintendent for Milwaukee Public Schools Biography

Milwaukee Public Schools Interim Superintendent Eduardo Galvan has been serving the children and families of Milwaukee Public Schools for more than three decades. 

Galvan, currently serving as MPS Interim Superintendent, has years of distinguished leadership in educational administration. He served as Regional Superintendent in the Southwest Region from 2018 to June 2024, when the Milwaukee Board of School Directors selected him as acting superintendent, holding the full duties and responsibilities of the superintendent.   

His background with Milwaukee Public Schools goes back to the summer between his senior year of high school and freshman year of college, when he ran summer camps for Milwaukee Recreation, a division of MPS.  

He led his first classroom beginning in 1992, teaching 5-year-old kindergarten at the former Twenty-seventh Street School. Galvan moved to Greenfield Bilingual School in 2001 to teach bilingual 5-year-old kindergarten. 

Galvan next was named assistant principal at Greenfield School in 2006. He became assistant principal at Vieau School/Escuela Vieau in 2007 and then was assistant principal in charge before becoming principal at Vieau in 2008.   

Galvan earned his bachelor’s degree at Carroll College (now Carroll University) and holds a master’s degree from National Louis University. 

Galvan, who is 56, grew up in Milwaukee, Cudahy, and Brookfield. Married for 26 years, he and his wife have two children.