New officers and directors installed

Dr. Kathy Kinley, a board member in the Chaffey Joint Union High School District in Ontario, became president of the California School Boards Association at the close of CSBA’s Annual Education Conference in San Francisco last month.

Kinley succeeds Luan B. Rivera, a member of the Ramona Unified School District in San Diego County, who remains active in the association as immediate past president.
“Public schools are the best investment in the future of our democratic society. We will meet the challenges ahead because CSBA is committed to the success of every student,” said Kinley, a former teacher and middle school principal who holds a doctorate in educational leadership. She was first elected to her local school board in 1983 and to CSBA’s Delegate Assembly in 1984.

The Delegate Assembly confirmed Paul H. Chatman, a board member in the Ocean View Elementary School District in Ventura County, as CSBA president-elect during its meeting that preceded the Annual Education Conference. Chatman has been active in CSBA for 17 years, serving as vice president for the past year and previously as director-at-large, black.

“The structure of CSBA is well positioned to move the public education agenda and set the pace for the rest of the country,” Chatman said. “As president-elect of CSBA, you have my commitment that I will continue to keep the needs of all of California’s children as our priority.”

Paula Campbell, director from Region 4 and a trustee in the Nevada City School District for 14 years, was elected CSBA’s new vice president.

“Our public agenda must include harnessing and guiding the energy and commitment behind proposed educational reforms,” Campbell said. “We must remember that our work as school board members and as members of CSBA is to respond to the educational needs of children, as wide as those needs may be.”

Directors-at-large
Re-elected this year were Susan Heredia, director-at-large, Hispanic, from the Natomas Unified School District and Ben Liao, director-at-large, Asian Pacific Islander, from the Cupertino Union School District.

New directors
Susan Hartley, from the San Diego County Office of Education, joins CSBA’s Board of Directors in her capacity as president of the California County Boards of Education.
Other new directors include Priscilla Cox, from Elk Grove Unified School District in Region 6; John Walker, from Ventura Unified School District in Region 11, and Linda Pavletich, from Rio Bravo-Greeley Union Elementary School District in Region 12. Region 4 delegates are electing a new director following Campbell’s election to vice president.