Democrat Jill Black of Chattanooga resigned from the Hamilton County Board of Education, leaving her District 11 seat vacant.
“I am writing this evening to inform you and the broader community of my resignation effective immediately,” Black wrote in an email Saturday to outgoing Hamilton County school board Chair Joe Smith and school board attorney Scott Bennett shared with the Chattanooga Times Free Press. “My husband has accepted a job in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Our family is moving at the end of the month.”
Black, who has served on the 11-member school board since 2022, is leaving her seat with two years left on her four-year term.
In the August general election, Democrats flipped one Hamilton County school board seat when Democrat Katie Perkins defeated a Republican challenger in the District 8 race, narrowing the board’s Republican majority from 7-4 to 6-5.