---
kind: "section"
citation: "20 U.S.C. § 4709"
title: "20"
title_heading: "Education"
number: "4709"
heading: "Executive Secretary"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/20/4709"
units:
  - "Chapter 59 — Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Program"
---

# §4709. Executive Secretary

- (a) **Appointment by Board—** There shall be an Executive [Secretary](/usc/20/1221.md?p=c-4) of the [Foundation](/usc/20/4702.md?p=1) who shall be appointed by the [Board](/usc/20/4702.md?p=2). The Executive [Secretary](/usc/20/1221.md?p=c-4) shall be the chief executive officer of the [Foundation](/usc/20/4702.md?p=1) and shall carry out the functions of the [Foundation](/usc/20/4702.md?p=1) subject to the supervision and direction of the [Board](/usc/20/4702.md?p=2). The Executive [Secretary](/usc/20/1221.md?p=c-4) shall carry out such other functions consistent with the provisions of this chapter as the [Board](/usc/20/4702.md?p=2) shall prescribe.
- (b) **Compensation—** The Executive [Secretary](/usc/20/1221.md?p=c-4) of the [Foundation](/usc/20/4702.md?p=1) shall serve as a noncareer appointee of the Senior Executive Service and shall be compensated at a rate determined by the [Board](/usc/20/4702.md?p=2) in accordance with [section 5383 of title 5](/usc/5/5383.md).

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 99–661, div. A, title XIV, § 1410, Nov. 14, 1986, 100 Stat. 4011; Pub. L. 102–190, div. A, title X, § 1089(3), Dec. 5, 1991, 105 Stat. 1485.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1991—Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 102–190 substituted “serve as a noncareer appointee of the Senior Executive Service and shall be compensated at a rate determined by the Board in accordance with section 5383” for “be compensated at the rate specified for employees in grade GS–18 of the General Schedule under section 5332”.