The Public School Employees’ Retirement System (Pa.) (PSERS) announced Friday that executive director Terrill “Terri” J. Sanchez will retire later this year, ending a trailblazing government service career that spanned four decades.
Sanchez submitted her letter of resignation, effective June 27, 2025, to the Board of Trustees and informed her staff of her retirement intentions on Friday. Sanchez is the first woman to hold the position of PSERS executive director since the system’s statutory founding in 1917.
“Today is a mix of pleasure and sweet melancholy,” Sanchez said. “Although I love working in service to others, it is time for me to bring my long tenure with PSERS and the Commonwealth to a close. I plan to spend quality time with my grandson, giving him what I hope will be the first of many ‘best summers of his life.’”
Sanchez, a Dillsburg resident who was raised in the Shamokin area, began her Commonwealth service in 1983 as an intern
