Candidate for
Board Member; Mountain View-Whisman School District

ENDORSEMENTS

Elected Officials and Other Dignitaries:

Lynne Alvarado (Retired Trustee, Mountain View Los Altos Union High School District)

Sylvia Alvarez (Board President, Evergreen School District)

Juan Aranda (Retired Trustee, Whisman and MVWSD)

Ed Bailey (Retired Trustee, MVWSD)

Frank Biehl (Trustee, East Side Union High School District)

Laura Casas (Trustee, Foothill-DeAnza Community College)

Pearl Cheng (Trustee, Foothill-DeAnza Community College)

Dr. Judy Crates (Retired Principal, Bubb and Castro Elementary Schools)

Barry Groves (Superintendent, Mountain View Los Altos Union High School District)

Alicia Henderson (Former Principal, Landels Elementary and Graham Middle School)

Anita Herrmann (Trustee, Sunnyvale School District)

Gloria Higgins (Retired Trustee, MVWSD)

Margaret Abe-Koga (Councilmember, City of Mountain View)

Mike Kasperzak (Councilmember, City of Mountain View)

Gustav Larsson (Councilmember, City of Sunnyvale)

Bonnie Mace (Trustee, Evergreen School District)

Grace Mah (Trustee, Santa Clara County Board of Education, area one)

John McAlister (Councilmember, City of Mountain View)

Joe Mitchner ((Trustee, Mountain View Los Altos Union High School District))

Nancy Newkirk (Trustee, Sunnyvale School District)

RoseMary Sias Roquero (Retired Trustee, MVWSD)

Jac Siegel (Councilmember, City of Mountain View)

Camille Townsend (Trustee, Palo Alto School District)

Fiona Walter (Retired Trustee, MVWSD)

Rebecca Wright (Former Chief Business Officer, MVWSD)

Delia Ybarra (Retired Trustee, Mountain View Los Altos Union High School District)

Eleanor Yick (Retired Superintendent, Whisman and MVWSD)

Other Community Leaders

Benny Alvarado, Maribel Barajas, Bruce Barsi, Laura Blakely, Priscilla Bogdanic, Julie Cates, Jose Colon, Kristi Dees, Marilu Delgado, Barbara Emerich, Sherry Ernst (Washington Open Elementary School in Santa Clara), Peggy Franczyk, Karl Gonsalves, Kyle Gonsalves, Cynthia and Mikal Greaves, Steve Haley, Max Beckman-Harned, Kathleen King, Claire Koukoutsakis, Gay Krause, Bob Lawrence, Olga Melo, Betsy Nikolchev, Kim Smith-Nilsson, Raju and Sridevi Penmetcha, Carmen Ponce, Lucas Ramirez, Nan Recker, Javier Rojo, Michelle Sherry (Professor of Child Development, Chabot Community College), Lewis and Nancy Singer, Beverly Smolich, Jim Stratton, Lisa Whitfield

More Endorsers

Nancy Cavagnaro, Wendy Fleet (Leadership Mountain View 2003 classmate), Aila Malik (fellow Challenge Team member), Elena Pacheco (fellow Challenge Team member), Jamil Shaikh, Janet Sloan, Kathy Thibodeaux, Catherine Vonnegut, Laurie Young

Even more endorsers:

Greg De La Ossa, Jim Gaderlund, Gail Haspert, Niki Theil

And still more endorsers: (8/23/14)

Michelle De La Ossa, Marilu Cuesta Flores, Mirtes Frediani, Israel Garcia, Ann Horrillo, Lorraine Kostka, Jerry Kruss (widower of former Whisman and MVWSD trustee Fran Kruss), Jennifer Kruss (daughter of Fran Kruss), Katherine and Roy Mize, Julie Scott, Maria and John Shexnayder, Annie Zacanti

More and More endorsers: (9/08/14)

Carmen Bryant, Kate and Sam Comstock, Joe J. Garcia (fellow LMV volunteer), Sharon Gloster, Leane Reelfs, Jeanny Tran

★ Ellen is honored to have the endorsement of the Santa Clara County Democratic Party. Their endorsements for school board races were released on September 9, 2014. She is the only person endorsed by this organization for the MVWSD Board of Trustees race.