Darrell R. Tukua has been a Capella Education Company director since 2004. From 1988 to 2003, Tukua was a partner at KPMG LLP, a public accounting firm he joined in 1976. Tukua is a member of the audit and budget committee of the insurance company MMIC Group, where he also served as a board observer from May 2004 to August 2005 and was elected to serve on the board of directors in August 2005. Tukua was elected an advisory board member of Gate City Bank in 2004, and became a member of its board of directors and audit and compensation committees in 2005. Tukua earned a Bachelor of Science from the University of South Dakota.