Nine to Run for South Orange-Maplewood BOE in November

 This article originally ran on June 4.

(Editor's note: the Essex County Clerk's Office originally omitted the name of Johanna Wright as one of the candidates.)

The 2013 race for the South Orange - Maplewood School Board of Education elections will be a crowded one this November, with two current board members -- board president Beth Daugherty and David Giles -- running for reelection and six other candidates on the ballot. 

Three seats are up for reelection this year, and Tuesday was the deadline for candidates to file their petitions with the Essex County Board of Elections. According to the county clerk's office, the following candidates have filed:

• Elizabeth T. Daugherty (incumbent)
• David K. Giles (incumbent)
• Stephanie M. Lawson-Muhammad
• Margaret Freedson
• Marian Cutler
• Jeffrey Dubowy
• Andrew Lee
• Marc Aronson
• Johanna Wright

Beth Daugherty became President of the South Orange-Maplewood Board of Education in May of 2011, succeeding Mark Gleason in that role. She has been a member of the Board of Education since 2007, gaining re-election to her second term in 2010. If elected in November, this would be her third term.

David K. Giles won election to his first term in 2010. 

Cutler ran unsucessfully for the first time in 2011.

Lynne Crawford, who has served on the Board of Education for three terms and was reelected in 2010 along with Daugherty and Giles, did not file to run again. Crawford did not respond to Patch's request for comment today.

This will be the first time the BOE elections will be held in November. Last year, the BOE voted to adopt a resolution to move the elections from April to November on the date of the general election.