Tucker Maxon is a 501c(3) non-profit corporation governed by a 14-member Board of Directors and managed by a 30+ member staff and faculty.

Tucker Maxon School was founded in 1947 by Stoel Rives attorney Paul Boley, a pioneer in oral education and related technology, and five Portland families who dreamed of providing their deaf children with the gift of speech.

Boley’s daughter Barbara Ann contracted meningitis and lost her hearing at the age of 18 months.

Initially, the Boleys enrolled their daughter in the preschool program at Portland’s Hosford Public School for Deaf Children.

Tucker Maxon began co-enrolling students who were not deaf or hard of hearing in the mid-1980s, when it leased space to a neighborhood preschool.