Nanaimo school district board vice-chairwoman Stephanie Higginson has been elected vice-president of the B.C. School Trustees Association.
The association supports boards of educations in B.C., and at its annual general meeting in Richmond today (April 22), Higginson received 155 votes in vice-president polling, defeating Donna Sargent (141 votes) and Ann Whiteaker (nine votes).
Higginson told the News Bulletin that Nanaimo district will still be her priority and committee work will be among her vice-presidential duties.
“There’s a number of committees that the BCSTA is part of and that the executive needs to sit on and also be part of the executive team that shapes the full direction of the organization, so we have a lot of opportunities coming up that I’ll be a part of, things like bargaining, the return of trustee governance to [B.C. Public School Employers’ Association], all those types of things,” Higginson said.
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Higginson lost a bid for the association presidency, receiving 128 votes to Gordon Swan’s 166.
She has been an association board director for two terms.