OC Education Board Incumbents Lead Race

Published on March 10, 2024

The Orange County Education Board’s three incumbents are leading in unofficial results in the March 5 election. Trustee Jorge Valdes, an attorney who was appointed to the board in August 2022 after former Trustee Beckie Gomez resigned due to a conflict of interest, is leading the race for Trustee Area 1—which covers Tustin, Santa Ana, Fountain Valley, and Garden Grove—with 59 percent of the vote, per the latest update from the Orange County registrar recorder March 8 at 6:30 p.m. His opponent, non-profit executive Beatriz Mendoza, has 41 percent. For Area 3, which covers Brea, Foothill Ranch, Irvine, Orange, Villa Park, Portola Hills, and Yorba Linda, Trustee Ken Williams—a physician and educator, who was elected to the board in 1996 and re-elected in 2020—leads with 54 over opponent Nancy Watkins, a public high school teacher, with 46 percent....

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