Ron McCarley is the Director of Jazz Studies and Performing Arts Division Chair at Cuesta College. He has served as a judge at many festivals including the Reno International Jazz Festival and the Monterey Next Generation Jazz Festival and made jazz education presentations at CMEA, JEN and NFA. As a saxophone player and woodwind doubler, he does studio work, appears as a featured artist and plays around Central and Southern California. He has performed or recorded with notable artists including Manhattan Transfer, The Temptations, Hanson, and many others. His most recent CD, Speak, features jazz favorites, standards and original compositions. He and his wife, Laura, live in Morro Bay.