Caleb Long is pretty confident he’ll appeal to a wide range of voters.
Which is one reason the electrical apprentice has decided to run for the District 9 seat on the Hamilton County Board of Education.
Now in year three of his five-year apprenticeship, Mr. Long already has a political science degree from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and is one year away from completing a master’s in public administration.
“I have blue collar, white collar and academic experience,” he said. “Hopefully, those characteristics will lend themselves to making good decisions (on the school board).”
Mr. Long, 32, said he first became interested in running for the school board when he began discussing public budgets and policies in his master’s classes at UTC.