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In this file photo, Hamilton County School Board member Mike Evatt meets with then-Superintendent Jim Scales. Evatt has been elected board chairman.Photo by John Rawlston /Chattanooga Times Free Press.
The Hamilton County school board has elected Mike Evatt as its chairman.
Evatt, who voted for himself, was backed by board members Rhonda Thurman, Everett Fairchild, David Testerman and Joe Galloway.
George Ricks, Jeffrey Wilson and Linda Mosley voted in favor of Wilson, who’s currently the board’s vice chairman, for the position.
Board member Chip Baker was not present.
In May, former Chairman Everett Fairchild announced his resignation for health reasons. Wilson has been serving as chairman in the weeks since.
The chairman sets the agenda and runs meetings, but the chairman’s votes carry no greater or less weight than other members.
Adam Crisp covers education issues for the Times Free Press. He joined the paper's staff in 2007 and initially covered crime, public safety, courts and general assignment topics. Prior to Chattanooga, Crisp was a crime reporter at the Savannah Morning News and has been a reporter and editor at community newspapers in southeast Georgia. In college, he led his student paper to a first-place general excellence award from the Georgia College Press Association. He earned ...
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