In the 2024 election, Orange County voters selected a mix of incumbents and fresh faces to serve on the county’s school boards.

A handful of the longtime board members have decades of experience, while the newcomers bring diverse backgrounds, spanning teaching, military, law and small business expertise.

For more details on each candidate, check out the OC Register’s 2024 Voter Guide. In the meantime, here’s a quick rundown of the winners:

Anaheim Elementary School District

• Area 1: Jackie Filbeck will be starting her third term on the board.

• Area 3: Julie Diep is a speech-language pathologist and disability rights advocate.

Anaheim Union High School District

• Area 3: Katherine Smith has served on the board since 1996.

• Area 4: Brian O’Neal, who has been a trustee since 2002, is a former La Palma City council member.

• Area 5: Ron Hoshi joined the Anaheim Union High School District in 1985, teaching at both Cypress High School and Kennedy High School.

Buena Park School District

• Area 3: Michael Jensen, an aerospace manager from Buena Park, defeated incumbent Tharwa Ahmad.

Capistrano Unified School District

• Area 1: Jennifer Adnams, a longtime educator, defeated the incumbent by nearly 2,000 votes.

• Area 2: Lisa Zollinger is a teacher and Ladera Ranch resident.

• Area 3: Lisa Davis was first elected to the board in 2020 to represent San Clemente.

• Area 5: Krista Castellanos will be starting her second term on the board.

Centralia School District

• Area 3: Angela Hernandez defeated Buena Park resident Thomas Barraza for her first term on the board.

Coast Community College District

• Area 2: Phu Nguyen, a newcomer to the board, is a Fountain Valley business owner and most recently served as a trustee on the Fountain Valley School District board.

Cypress School District

• Area A: Carrie Hayashida was appointed to the board in May to fill a vacancy following the resignation of Brian Nakamura.

• Area E: Jaime Needham, a former teacher in the Westminster, Irvine Unified and Cypress school districts, narrowly defeated incumbent Candi Kern by fewer than 100 votes.

Fountain Valley School District

• Incumbent Steven Schultz and newcomer Ashley Ramirez defeated Huy Tran in the race where voters were asked to choose two candidates.

Fullerton School District

• Area 2: James Cho, an Air Force veteran who serves on Fullerton’s infrastructure and natural resources advisory committee, defeated Hilda Sugarman, who was first elected to the board in 1996.

• Area 5: Vanesa Estrella, who owns El Pachuco Zoot Suits in Fullerton, defeated incumbent Leonel Talavera.

Garden Grove Unified School District

• Area 1: Terri Rocco, the incumbent, is a lifelong Garden Grove resident and retired district teacher.

• Area 5: Dina Nguyen, also an incumbent, is a Westminster attorney and former city council member.

Huntington Beach City School District

• Area 1: Brian Burley will be starting his first term on the board.

Huntington Beach Union High School District

• Area 3: Susan Henry has been a board member since 2000 and serves as a regional director for the California School Boards Association, representing Orange County.

Laguna Beach Unified School District

• Sheri Morgan and Howard Hills topped a field of five vying for two at-large seats, defeating incumbent Jan Vickers, who finished third. Morgan is a business owner and parent; Hills is an author and lawyer.

La Habra City School District

• Full Term: Justin Rodgers and Ofelia Corona Hanson are both incumbents.

• Short Term: Minerva S. Gomez is a planning commissioner in La Habra.

Los Alamitos Unified School District

• Area 4: Farnaz Pardasani, a newcomer to the board, is a member of the Los Alamitos Education Foundation.

• Area 5: Matt Bragman served on the district’s operations steering committee.

Newport-Mesa Unified School District

• Area 1: Leah Ersoylu won a second term by fewer than 500 votes.

• Area 3: Carol Crane, a former teacher most recently at Tarbut V’ Torah Community Day School in Irvine, is set to begin her second term.

• Area 6: Krista Weigand has been on the board since 2020.

North Orange County Community College District

• Area 2: Ed Lopez is an adjunct professor of political science at Irvine Valley College who has been on the board since 2016.

• Area 5: Mark Lopez was first elected to the board in 2018.

• Area 7: Ryan Bent is a Yorba Linda resident and public library commissioner who was first elected to the board in 2016.

Ocean View School District

• Incumbent Gina Clayton-Tarvin, who was first elected to the board in 2012, and Keri Gorsage, a teacher at The Pegasus School in Huntington Beach, topped a field of five vying for the two available seats.

Orange Unified School District

• Area 3: Ana Page, the incumbent, decisively won a second term.

• Area 4: Sara J. Pelly, a retired teacher, joined the board in May, replacing Madison Miner after she and Rick Ledesma were recalled by voters in March.

• Area 7: Stephen Glass replaced Ledesma in March.

Placentia-Yorba Linda Unified School District

• Area 1: Tricia Quintero, a longtime Placentia resident and new board member, is a teacher.

• Area 2: Marilyn Anderson will be starting her second term on the board.

• Area 3: Leandra Blades, the incumbent, serves on the Republican Party of Orange County Central Committee.

Rancho Santiago Community College District

• Area 3: Cecilia “Cici” Iglesias has served on the Santa Ana Unified School District board and the Santa Ana City Council.

• Area 5: David Crockett has been on the board since 2020.

• Area 7: Tina Arias Miller has been on the board since 2020.

Saddleback Valley Unified School District

• Area 2: Michele Sparks, a district parent, has volunteered in classrooms and served with parent-teacher associations.

• Area 3: Suzie Swartz was first elected to the board in 2020.

• Area 4: Amanda Morrell was appointed to the board in 2015 as a provisional trustee and won her first election in 2016.

Santa Ana Unified School District

• Area 1: Brenda Lebsack defeated incumbent Rigo Rodriguez by 201 votes.

• Area 2: Valerie Magdaleno, a lifelong Santa Ana resident, is a graduate of Lowell Elementary, Mendez Intermediate and Santa Ana High School.

• Area 3: Alfonso Alvarez will be starting his third term on the board.

South Orange County Community College District

• Area 1: Carolyn Inmon will be starting her second term on the board.

• Area 3: Lisa A. Bartlett, a longtime South Orange County resident and former Orange County Supervisor, will join six incumbents on the board.

• Area 6: Ryan Dack was first elected to the board in 2022.

• Area 7: Timothy “Tim” Jemal will be starting his fourth term on the board.

Tustin Unified School District

• Area 1: Allyson Muñiz Damikolas retained her seat for a second term on the board. Earlier this year, she ran for California’s 40th congressional district but lost in the March primary.

• Area 2: Kathy Copeland, new to the board, previously spent seven years serving on the Foothill High School Education Fund.

• Area 4: Jonathan Stone, the incumbent, is a longtime member of the Tustin Chamber of Commerce.

Here’s the final list of who won school board races in Orange County