{"id":35064,"date":"2025-11-05T23:52:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T23:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/35064\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T23:52:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T23:52:10","slug":"lee-county-school-board-elects-chair-and-vice-chair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/35064\/","title":{"rendered":"Lee County School Board elects chair and vice chair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In action at its regular meeting Tuesday evening, Armor Persons was elected chair of the Lee County Board of Education. Elected vice chair was Bill Ribble.<\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"Image\" alt=\"\"  width=\"880\" height=\"1100\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1762386729_651_\"\/><\/p>\n<p>They replace outgoing chair and vice chair Samuel Fisher and Jada Langford-Fleming.<\/p>\n<p>Persons was elected in November 2022; his term expires November 2026. He represents District 5, which covers the northeast section of the county.<\/p>\n<p>He is a Lee County native and tennis coach.<\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"Image\" alt=\"\"  width=\"880\" height=\"1238\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1762386730_104_\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Ribble was elected to the board in November 2024; his term expires in November 2028. <\/p>\n<p>He represents District 3, which is the southernmost portion of the county.<\/p>\n<p>He lives in Estero and is a former member of the Estero Village Council and served as the village\u2019s mayor. He is a former vice president of corporate operational development for UPS.<\/p>\n<p>WGCU is your trusted source for news and information in Southwest Florida. We are a nonprofit public service, and your support is more critical than ever. Keep public media strong and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/wgcu.secureallegiance.com\/wgcu\/WebModule\/Donate.aspx?P=JOURNALISM&amp;PAGETYPE=PLG&amp;CHECK=Fh6V9MuzTVcdN7RxIr2SYb1YhDw50SikSh2nq0qouhg%3d\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">donate\u00a0<\/a>now. Thank you. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In action at its regular meeting Tuesday evening, Armor Persons was elected chair of the Lee County Board&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35065,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210],"class_list":["post-35064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35064\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}