Northwest Ohio school board member selected as OSBA president-elect nominee

Thomas C. Patterson, a northwest Ohio school board member, was selected as the Ohio School Boards Association’s (OSBA) president-elect nominee.

If elected during OSBA’s statewide conference in November, he will become OSBA president in 2025 following his term as president-elect in 2024.
 
Patterson, who’s in his 18th year on the Sandusky City Schools Board of Education, was first elected in November 2001. He currently serves on OSBA’s Board of Trustees and Board Member Cabinet and is a member of the association’s Northwest Region Executive Committee. He served as region president in 2020.

His dedication to OSBA also includes service on the association’s Executive, Nominating, Governance Review and Legislative Platform committees, Urban Network and Capital Conference Planning Task Force.

Patterson received OSBA’s 15-year Veteran Board Member award in 2020.

Founded in 1955, OSBA leads the way as the respected voice of Ohio public education.