AFSA President Mark Cannizzaro was elected to the AFL-CIO Executive Council  during the opening session of the labor federation’s 30th Constitutional Convention in Minneapolis.

Cannizzaro succeeds AFSA President Emeritus Ernest A. Logan on the Executive Council, the AFL-CIO’s highest governing body between conventions. The council helps shape the federation’s legislative agenda, organizing strategy, policy priorities, and advocacy efforts on behalf of nearly 15 million working people represented by AFL-CIO-affiliated unions.

His election ensures that school leaders will continue to have a voice at the highest levels of the labor movement.

Cannizzaro follows Logan, whose decades of service to both AFSA and the labor movement were recognized by the AFL-CIO Executive Council earlier this year through a resolution honoring his distinguished career.

In March, the AFL-CIO praised Logan’s leadership as an educator, union leader, and advocate for workers. A native New Yorker and graduate of SUNY Cortland, Logan spent nearly 25 years in New York City public schools as a teacher, assistant principal, and principal before beginning a second career in union leadership with the Council of School Supervisors and Administrators, AFSA Local 1.

Logan was elected president of Local 1 in 2006 and later became AFSA’s national president in 2018. During his tenure, he guided the union through the COVID-19 pandemic and championed the interests of school administrators, public education, civil rights, and workers’ rights.

Following his retirement as AFSA president in 2022, Logan continued to serve on the AFL-CIO Executive Council, where the federation said his “vision and experience were tremendous assets.”

The resolution concluded by thanking Logan, on behalf of the AFL-CIO’s nearly 15 million members, for his solidarity and decades of dedicated service to workers everywhere.