The two incumbents will be joined by a newcomer in the election for two Higley Unified School District Governing Board seats this fall.
President Amanda Wade and Board Member Anna Van Hoek will seek second terms to the board. They each were elected in 2022.
Joining them in the race will be a newcomer: Michelle Morris, a district parent with a professional background in accounting.
Morris has one child who graduated from Williams Field High School, twins with one at Higley High School and the other at Higley Virtual Academy, and the youngest child at Sossaman Middle School.
In a Facebook post, Morris indicated she wanted to use her background in accounting to help the district through its financial challenges. She also wants to advocate for the students with special needs as she has one child on the autism spectrum.
Wade and Van Hoek have been perhaps the highest profile board members with Wade in her second year as president and Van Hoek a frequent critic of district finances and policies. The two have often had philosophical clashes on the dais.
The two seats will be decided at the Nov. 3 general election.
Meet Tom Tom Blodgett joined Independent Newsmedia, Inc., USA, in 2022, when the company acquired Community Impact Newspaper's Phoenix-area properties. Raised in Arizona, he has spent more than 35 years in journalism in the state.
Community: He has served as an instructional professional in the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication since 2005, and is editorial adviser to The State Press, the university's independent student media outlet. He also is director of operations for an 18U girls fastpitch softball team from Gilbert.
Education: Arizona State University with a BS in Journalism.
Random Fact: He lived in Belgium during his freshman year of high school.
Hobbies: Tweeting enthusiastically about ASU softball (season-ticket holder) and grumpily about other local sports (pessimistic fan).
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