Candidate for
Board Member; Palo Alto Unified School District

For a much more complete list of endorsements, please visit my website's endorsement page.

The Palo Alto Daily News
"Experience will benefit our schools"

"We recommend incumbent Camille Townsend, who has the necessary educational and political acumen for the job."

"She offers good ideas for smoothing out the differences that arise in a community so passionate about education. As the only incumbent in the election for three seats, she brings experience that will serve the board well as it struggles to provide new facilities and the need to replace a strong cadre of teachers nearing retirement."

The Honorable Joe Simitian
California State Senator,
Chair: Senate Master Plan on Education Committee

The Honorable Ira Ruskin
California State Assemblyman
Member of the Assembly Committee on Higher Education

The Honorable Liz Kniss
Santa Clara County Supervisor and
Former Palo Alto Mayor & PAUSD School Board Trustee

The Honorable Mandy Lowell
Current Palo Alto Unified School District Board Member and
Former School Board President

The Honorable Joan Johnston
Former PAUSD School Board President
Founder of Palo Alto Foundation for Education
Former Development Director for Stanford University

The Honorable Cathy Kroymann
Board Member, Foundation for a College Education
Former PAUSD School Board President

The Honorable Amado Padilla
Stanford University Professor of Education
Former PAUSD School Board Member

The Honorable John Tuomy,
Former PAUSD School Board President

The Honorable John Barton
Palo Alto Councilmember and
Former PAUSD School Board President

The Honorable Bern Beecham
Palo Alto Councilmember and
Former Mayor

The Honorable Peter Drekmeier
Palo Alto Councilmember

The Honorable Yoriko Kishimoto
Mayor, Palo Alto

The Honorable Larry Klein
Palo Alto Vice Mayor and
Former Mayor

The Honorable Jack Morton
Palo Alto Councilmember

The Honorable Betsy Bechtel
Foothill-De Anza College Board Trustee and
Former Mayor of Palo Alto

The Honorable Laura Casas-Frier
Foothill-De Anza College Board Trustee

The Honorable Hal Plotkin
Foothill-De Anza College Board President

The Honorable Bruce Swenson
Foothill-De Anza College Board Vice President

The Honorable Grace Mah
Santa Clara County Board of Education

The Honorable Ruben Abrica
East Palo Alto Councilmember
Faculty, De Anza Community College

The Honorable Ellen Wheeler
Mountain View-Whisman School District Board Trustee

The Honorable Nancy Newkirk
Sunnyvale School District

The Honorable Gary Fazzino
Former Palo Alto Mayor, 2007 Tall Tree Award Recipient, and Former Co-Chair - Measure A school parcel tax campaign

Wendy Akers-Ghose

Cheryl & Vijay Albuquerque

Susyn Almond

Stephanie Anderson

Mark Anderton

Monica Yeung Arima

Ann Arjani

Adam Atito
Palo Alto Human Relations Commission

Suzanne Attenborough

Matthew & Kerin Bashaw

Nancy Bavor

Cindy & Joe Baxter

Mary Ellen Bena

Lila Bina

Eric Bloom

Jeff Blum
Palo Alto Human Relations Commission

Tina and Steve Bono

Wileta Burch

Melissa J. Brown

Tess & Eric Byler

Kelly Calica

Tony Carrasco

Martha Castillo

Sue Chakos

Barbara Dunn Cherry

Sandy Citron

Cynthia Chin-Lee

Enoch Choi, M.D.

Marilyn Chow

Tate Cohn

Kevin Coleman

James F. Cook,
New PAUSD parent
Former director of Paul Newman non-profit for children

Ann Crichton

Sharon Dally

Susan Dansker

Relly Davis

Tony DeMeo

Harry & Susan Dennis

Beryl Deremegio

Jay Dohner

Diane Downend

Dan & Sunny Dykwel

Gerda Endemann
Nutritionist
PAUSD Healthy School Lunch Committee Member

Sid Espinosa

John and Bette-Jane Ferandin

Katherine Fife

Len Filppu

Sam Fineberg

Susan Fineberg
Founding Member of the Parents' Club of Palo Alto and Menlo Park

Megan Swezey Fogarty
Former Co-Chair - Measure A school parcel tax campaign

Donald and Virginia Fitton

Celeste Ford

Diane Frank

Charlotte Fu

Suzanne El Gamal

Penny Gertridge
Nurse, PAUSD Healthy School Lunch Committee Member

Amado & Jeanne Giaccia

Rita Giles

Diana Go

Dave and Leslie Goldman

Mary Goodspeed

Belle Griffith

Jack & Myllicent Hamilton

Jean Hamilton

Cressida Hanson

Eve Hanson

Ward Hanson

Scott Hayes

Kay and Walt Hays
Palo Alto Environmental and Community Leaders
Sustainable Schools Committee Member
Tall Tree Award Recipient

Bob Herriot

Ye Ha Heynick

Kelly Hicks

Mark Hoffburg

Dorothy Hodges

Cindy Howard

Laura Hull

Brenda & Charlie Jacklin

Craig & Nico Janik

Cathy Jensen

Eric & Linda Stebbins Jensen

Pitch & Cathie Johnson

Gail & Skip Justman

Gail Kaiser

Herb & Joy Kaiser

Lissa Kaplan

Nancy Karp

Karen Karpen

Marlene & Russell Kawahata

Rachel Kellerman

June Klein

Anjini Kochar

Susan Kraft

Glenn Krasner

Heather Trossman Kushlan

Michele Kwasnick

Rob and Rita Lancefield

Lucy LaPier

Kathryn LaTour

Jan Laurence

Cathie & Dick Lehrberg

Linda Lenoir
School Nurse, Palo Alto Human Relations Commission

Leon Leong

Polina Levitan

Henry & Winnie Lew

Sylvia Lichtenger

Grace Liu
Former PTA President

Peter Lo
Recent PAUSD graduate
Student Representative to PAUSD School Board

David & Robin Lockner

Sandra Lonnquist

Paul Losch

Katherine Lose

Susan Lucas-Conwell

Fred Luskin & Jan Krinsley

Monica Malamud

Pam McCroskey

Betsy Mellins

Joan Mendelson

Abera Metaferia

Robin and Phil Metz

Arti Migliani

Marc Miller

Michele Miller
Technology Teacher

Daunna Minnich
CAC for Special Education, Steering Committee

Carol Mitchell

Joanni & Larry Mitchell

Jack Moses

Don B. Mullen

Shirley Nanevicz

Carol Nast

Stacey Newman

Terry Noeth

Jackie Norgord

Dave Olsen

Rob Parish
Site Council Representative,
Real Estate Broker, Keller-Williams

Nancy Patterson

Sandy Peters

Sybil and Jack Pfluke

Joan Phelan

Shan Phillips

David Pienknagura

Ann Pianetta

Joan Polinksy

David Rapaport

Jamie Raperport

Lisa Ratner

Heidi Linch Reynolds

Hal & Joleen Roach

Joe & Diane Rolfe
2006 Palo Alto "Sally Siegel" Teaching Award Recipient for
Excellence in Teaching

Stefan Rosner

Carina Rossner

Martha Rubin
PAUSD Special Education Teacher

Linda Sanford

Jenn Scherer

Laura Schickli

Eric and Melinda Schuur

Amy & Dan Scrivner

Elizabeth Seaman

Carol Scott

Judy Severson

CK & Li Shen

John Shoolery

Marilyn Shurtz

Louise & Russell Singleton

Mona Siegel

SILVAR

Alice Smith

Roger Smith

Steve Smith

Cherie Sopkin

Elliott Sopkin

Aaron Spolin

John St. Claire

Suzie Stewart
2007 Palo Alto "Sally Siegel" Teaching Award Recipient for
Excellence in Teaching

Tom Stewart

Dan & Joan Stober

Martin Stone

Garret & Lalitha Swart

Anne & Craig Taylor

Cynthia Tham

Cheryl Tompkins

Preeva Tramiel

Jocelyn Tseng

Sandra Tucher

Kathy Baxter Tullus

Dorothy Unger

Onna Vancheri

Mary E. Van Patten

Kent Vickery

Bill Voorhees

Newman & Ann Walker

Barbara & Scott Wallace

Malin Fritz Walrod

Holly Ward

Bill White
Founding Member of CAC for Special Education

Lee Wieder

Dawn Wilcox

Carolyn Williams
2007 PTA Service Award Recipient

Marilyn Williams

Caroline Willis
Palo Alto Recreation Foundation President

Lou Ann Winchell

Barbara Wolfe

Bob Woo

Partial list

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