Cupertino board member Josephine Lucey leads new officers at CSBA
SACRAMENTO, Calif. – The California School Boards Association (CSBA) announces the election of a new slate of officers to lead the organization in the year ahead. The leaders include Josephine (Jo) Lucey, Jesús M. Holguín, Chris Ungar and Cindy Marks. Together, they offer the association an incredible depth of educational leadership experience, broad professional expertise, and a wide variety of perspectives from throughout the state. The officers were recently approved by the association’s governing body, the Delegate Assembly, including more 300 delegates representing the association’s more than 5,500 governance team leaders from K-12 school districts and county offices of education.
Lucey, a board member in the Cupertino Union School District, is the new CSBA president. She has served on the CSBA Board of Directors since December 2008 and has served in various educational and community leadership roles as the Hoffmann Award Chair for the Santa Clara County School Boards Association, a member of the Santa Clara Education Coalition, and as chairperson and member of the Santa Clara County Committee on School District Organization.
Committed to providing a quality education to the children of her community, Lucey has been an active member of bond and parcel tax campaign committees for both her local elementary district and local high school district. She is a firm believer that legislative advocacy for public education at the local state and federal level contributes to sound public education policy. She has built personal relationships with her legislators and has been a participant in CSBA's legislative action days, CSBA's Federal Issues Council and NSBA's Federal Relations Network.
“I’m truly honored and looking forward to the opportunity to advocate for effective policies that advance the education and well-being of California’s schools and students,” said Lucey.
Holguín, a board member in the Moreno Valley Unified School District in Riverside County, is the new CSBA president-elect. He has extensive experience in school finance, including 28 years in the Business Advisory Services Department with the San Bernardino County Office of Education. He has served as president of the Riverside County School Boards Association, president of the Moreno Valley Hispanic Chamber of Commerce for two years, and as a board member of ACCESS to the Future. Currently, he’s serving as the treasurer for the California Latino School Boards Association.
Ungar will serve as vice president and has represented Monterey, San Benito, San Luis Obispo and Santa Cruz counties on the CSBA Board of Directors since 2007. He has served on CSBA committees for Board Development and the Diversity Task Force, and was chair of the Budget Committee in 2010 and CSBA’s Annual Education Conference Committee in 2008. Ungar previously served on the Delegate Assembly from 2004 to 2007, and was a member of the Nominating Committee in 2006.
Marks, a longstanding member of the Modesto City Schools Board of Education in Stanislaus County, rounds out the new CSBA governance body serving as Immediate Past President. Marks 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.
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 governing boards, and district and county office administrators 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.