New CSBA officers and directors take office
Published: December 5, 2012
Cindy Marks, a longstanding member of the Modesto City Schools District Board of Education in Region 8, took office as CSBA’s president following the association’s Annual Education Conference and Trade Show in San Francisco last week.
“I’m humbled by this honor, and commit to advancing the policy priorities of our state’s public schools with the governor and Legislature during my tenure as president,” said Marks. “It is my privilege to support and lead the thousands of talented, dedicated school board members who are actively working with CSBA to promote the importance of public education and sound statewide educational policies.”
Marks has been active in CSBA’s statewide leadership since 2004, and began serving in regional leadership positions in 2000. She has expertise across a wide range of policy areas from school finance and fiscal reform to at-risk youth, dropout prevention and school discipline, safe schools, and state and federal legislative issues.
Marks succeeds Jill Wynns, a trustee with the San Francisco Unified School District in Region 5, who will remain active in CSBA, including serving another year on CSBA’s Executive Committee as immediate past president.
CSBA’s Delegate Assembly confirmed Josephine Lucey, a trustee from the Cupertino Union School District in Region 20, as the association’s president-elect. Delegates also elected Jesús Holguín, a board member in the Moreno Valley Unified School District in Region 18, as CSBA’s vice president.
Directors-at-large
Delegates elected Audrey Yamagata-Noji, from the Santa Ana Unified School District, to a full term as director-at-large, Asian/Pacific Islander. Kathryn Ramirez, of the Salinas Union High School District, was elected director-at-large, Hispanic.
New directors
Paula S. Campbell, CSBA’s president in 2009, is returning to CSBA’s Board of Directors as the newly elected director from Region 4. Other new directors include Ellen Driscoll, a trustee of the Rescue Union Elementary School District in Region 6; Wilson F. So, of the Apple Valley Unified School District in Region 16; and Donald E. LaPlante of the Downey Unified School District in Region 24. Ramón Flores, the president of the Ventura County Office of Education’s board in 2012, will also serve on CSBA’s board in 2013 as president of the California County Boards of Education. Susan Henry, a trustee in the Huntington Beach Union High School District, was elected to complete the term of Region 15 Director Don Sedgwick, who resigned from the Board of Directors.
Seven incumbent directors were re-elected from their respective regions, including Sherry Crawford, Siskiyou County Office of Education in Region 2; Sherri Reusche, Calaveras Unified School District in Region 8; Susan Markarian, Pacific Union Elementary School District in Region 10; Linda Pavletich, Rio Bravo-Greeley Union Elementary School District in Region 12. Region 18 members had re-elected Holguín as their director before the Delegate Assembly elevated him to the Executive Committee as vice president, so President Marks will appoint a new director for the region.