About me
Veronica Coates is the Assistant Superintendent for Tehama County SELPA in rural Northern California. Prior to being a SELPA Administrator, she held other leadership positions in special education. Her origin in education is as a school psychologist. She believes strongly in preserving relationships between LEAs and Families to ensure the common goal of servicing students is always the primary focus in this work. Veronica worked to secure 550 million dollars in the California Budget to fund Dispute Prevention and Learning Recovery efforts due to the impacts of the pandemic for Students with Disabilities. She has recently led her SELPA in creating a continuum of ADR, specifically in hiring one of the first neutral directors of ADR for a SELPA in the state of California. She is a member of the Executive Committee for the SELPA Administrators of California, and a member of the board of the California Mental Health Advocates for Children and Youth (CMHACY). She graduated from the Strauss Institute, Pepperdine School of Law's Mediating the Litigated Case (MLC) program. Veronica has one son, Holden, who she loves to watch engaging in his passions for sports and his love for swimming and basketball.
