Plano ISD voters will decide on Places 1, 2, 3 and 6 on the district\u2019s board of trustees May 1. Polls are open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.<\/p>\n
Place 1 is currently held by Board President Tammy Richards, who decided not to run for re-election. Seeking the seat are Shafik Ben Guesmia, the chief executive officer of contract management firm Cemendus Inc.; Lauren Tyra, a venture capital scientific analyst; and Semida Voicu, a small-business owner.<\/p>\n
In the Place 2 race, incumbent Angela Powell is being challenged by Ajikwaga Felli and Dayna Oscherwitz. Powell, the chief executive officer of Powell Advantage, is seeking her second four-year term on the board. Felli is a dentist and co-owner of Cuddly Smiles Pediatric Dentistry and Orthodontics, while Oscherwitz is a professor of francophone studies and assistant provost for general education at Southern Methodist University.<\/p>\n
The Place 3 race is between incumbent Nancy Humphrey and challenger Lynn Walling. Humphrey, who is a retired former certified public accountant and former executive director of Hendrick Scholarship Foundation, is seeking her fourth consecutive four-year term on the board. Walling works in local small-business employment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Plano ISD voters will decide on Places 1, 2, 3 and 6 on the district\u2019s board of trustees…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":362711,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[128625,128624,128628,128622,128627,128629,128626,160,128619,162,2336,161,128623,128621,128620],"class_list":["post-362710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-plano","tag-ajikwaga-felli","tag-angela-powell","tag-jeri-chambers","tag-lauren-tyra","tag-lynn-walling","tag-marilyn-loughray","tag-nancy-humphrey","tag-plano","tag-plano-elections","tag-plano-headlines","tag-plano-isd","tag-plano-news","tag-semida-voicu","tag-shafik-ben-guesmia","tag-tammy-richards"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362710\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/362711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}