California School Boards Association Elects New Officers for 2015
Educational Leaders from Moreno Valley, San Luis Coastal, Calaveras and Cupertino to Guide CSBA
SACRAMENTO, Calif., (January 30, 2015) –The California School Boards Association (CSBA) announces the election of new officers - Jesús M. Holguín, Chris Ungar, Sherri Reusche, and Josephine Lucey - to lead the organization in 2015. The officers were recently approved by the association’s governing body, the Delegate Assembly, which includes more than 300 delegates representing CSBA’s 5,500 governance team leaders from K-12 school districts and county offices of education.
“Together, these education professionals bring CSBA a wide variety of perspectives from throughout the state and an incredible depth of leadership, experience and expertise,” said CSBA CEO & Executive Director Vernon M. Billy.
Jesús M. Holguín, President
Holguín, a board member in the Moreno Valley Unified School District in Riverside County, has been serving as an officer since December 2012, on CSBA’s Board of Directors since May 2010, and was a member of the Delegate Assembly from 2002 to 2010.
Holguín has served on a number of CSBA committees and currently serves on the Policy Platform Committee, the Superintendents Council Advisory Committee, and the California Cities, Counties and Schools Partnership Committee.
Since 2002, Holguín has served on the Board of Trustees for Moreno Valley Unified School District and is an officer of the California Latino School Board Association. He has also served as president of the Riverside County School Boards Association, president of the Moreno Valley Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, and board member of ACCESS to the Future. Holguín has spent more than 17 years involved in school and district-level parent groups, including PTA, Site Council, GATE, High School Curriculum, Safety Task Force, DELAC and budget committees and the Booster Club.
Chris Ungar, President-Elect
Prior to being elected CSBA Vice President in December 2013, Ungar, a board member in the San Luis Unified School District, represented Monterey, San Benito, San Luis Obispo and Santa Cruz counties on the CSBA Board of Directors since 2007.
With more than 25 years of experience in special education, Ungar was the special education director for the San Luis Obispo County Office of Education and is a member of both the California and American Speech Hearing Associations.
Ungar served as president of the San Luis Coastal USD Board of Trustees in 2011-2012, a position he also held in 2002-2003, 2006 and 2007.
Sherri Reusche, Vice President
Reusche, a board member in the Calaveras Unified School District, served as the Region 8 Director for CSBA, representing Amador, Calaveras, Merced, San Joaquin, Stanislaus and Tuolumne counties. She joined the CSBA board in December 2010.
Reusche was elected to the Calaveras Unified School District Board of Trustees in 2005 and served as a member of CSBA’s Delegate Assembly since 2006.
She is a Rotarian who is very involved in the community and with local youth as well as with her children’s school and extracurricular activities. Professionally, she is the San Joaquin Delta College Liaison for Calaveras County and is a computer educator in home technology.
Josephine Lucey, Immediate Past President
A board member in the Cupertino Union School District, Lucey has been an officer since December 2011. She has served on the CSBA board of directors since 2008 and has served in various educational and community leadership roles as the Hoffman Award Chair for the Santa Clara County School Boards Association, a member of the Santa Clara Educational Coalition, and as chairperson and a member of the Santa Clara County Committee on School District Organization.
About CSBA
The California School Boards Association (CSBA) is the non-profit education association representing the elected officials who govern public school districts and county offices of education. With a membership of nearly 1,000 educational agencies statewide, CSBA brings together school district governing boards and county boards of education to advocate for effective policies that advance the education and well-being of the state’s more than 6 million school-age children. CSBA provides policy resources and training to members, and represents the statewide interests of public education through legal, political legislative, community and media advocacy.
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