The Santa Clara Unified School District Board of Trustees is  comprised of seven members, elected at large to serve 4-year terms.

Citizen oversight of local government is the cornerstone of democracy in the United States. School board members are locally elected public officials entrusted with governing a community’s public schools. The role of the school board is to ensure that school districts are responsive to the values, beliefs and priorities of their communities. Boards fulfill this role by performing five major responsibilities:

• Setting direction
• Establishing an effective and efficient structure
• Providing support
• Ensuring accountability
• Providing community leadership as advocates for children, the school district and public schools

These five responsibilities represent core functions that are so fundamental to a school system’s accountability to the public that they can only be performed by an elected governing body. Authority is granted to the board as a whole, not each member individually. Therefore, board members fulfill these responsibilities by working together as a governance team with the superintendent to make decisions that will best serve all the students in the community.

Jim Canova 

Board Member
Term Ends: November 2022
Trustee Area 1
(408) 423-2006
jcanova@scusd.net

Albert Gonzalez

Board Member
Term Ends: November 2020
Trustee Area 2
(408) 246-6252
asgonzalez@scusd.net

Jodi Muirhead

Board Vice President
Term Ends: November 2022
Trustee Area 2
(408) 444-6160
jmuirhead@scusd.net

Vickie Fairchild

Board Member
Term Ends: November 2022
Trustee Area 2
(408) 408-423-2006
vjfairchild@scusd.net

Andrew Ratermann 

Board Member
Term Ends: November 2022
Trustee Area 3 
(408) 423-2006
aratermann@scusd.net

Mark Richardson

Board Clerk
Term Ends: November 2020
Trustee Area 2
(408) 423-2006
mrichardson@scusd.net

Michele Ryan, Ph.D. 

Board President
Term Ends: November 2020
Trustee Area 3 
(408) 673-1620
mryan@scusd.net