Dr. Nordal, APA’s Executive Director for Professional Practice since April 2008, was in full time independent practice for 28 years. She is a fellow of the APA and Mississippi Psychological Association and has served in numerous governance positions in her SPTA and the APA, including APA’s Board of Directors and the Committee for the Advancement of Professional Practice. She has been a Trustee of the APA Insurance Trust, an APA Congressional Fellow, and served on Mississippi’s psychology licensing board. Dr. Nordal is a recipient of APA’s Karl F. Heiser Presidential Award for Advocacy, and in 2009 she was recognized by APA’s Division 31 as the Outstanding Psychologist in a State, Provincial or Territorial Psychological Association. She is a Distinguished Psychology Practitioner in the National Academies of Practice. Dr. Nordal has been honored by the MPA with the Kinlock Gill Outstanding Professional Psychologist Award, the Distinguished Practitioner Award, and the Distinguished Fellow Award. Her clinical interests included: learning, behavioral, and emotional disorders in children and adolescents; neuropsychological assessment; brain injury in children and adults; and, civil forensic psychology.Dr. Nordal oversees a wide range of legislative, legal, regulatory and marketplace activities designed to advance the professional practice of psychology and to help ensure the availability of quality psychological services. These include: development of practice policies (such as guidelines); a Public Education Campaign and network; the Psychologically Healthy Workplace Program and Psychology in the Workplace network; an annual State Leadership Conference; the Disaster Response Network; consultations to individual psychologists about practice-related issues including reimbursement, insurance contracts and business practices; consultation and support to state psychological associations; legislative and regulatory advocacy and lobbying; and, PAC oversight.