Retired business executive Ed Garcia hopes to bring his experience transforming organizations into market leaders to the Hamilton County school board.
“I’m very much a numbers-driven decision maker,” he said in an interview. “I listen to people. I listen to a lot of data points. I’m very careful to make sure that decisions that are made, especially ones that impact our children and the number of people that we have in our school system, aren’t made on a whim or based on someone’s emotions.”
Garcia, 56, and attorney Jodi Schaffer are seeking the Republican nomination in the race to replace school board member Joe Wingate, R-Chattanooga, as the District 7 representative on the Hamilton County school board. District 7 includes the East Brainerd and Apison areas.
The primary election is set for March 5.