COLUMBIA – Wesley Hightower, member of the Aiken County School Board, was elected president-elect of the South Carolina School Boards Association (SCSBA) during the association’s annual Delegate Assembly held this past Saturday, December 3.
The association’s annual business meeting, which was held during the association’s Legislative Advocacy Conference, included voting delegates from most of the state’s 81 school boards. In addition to the election of association officers, delegates adopted resolutions to guide the association during the 2017 legislative session.
Hightower was elected to the Aiken County Public School District Board in 2006. He helps lead the board’s legislative advocacy efforts.
Hightower manages the training needs of the Savannah River Site (SRS), where he has performed various leadership roles, extending from operator to manager. He has been employed at Savannah River for over 31 years. He is also an adjunct instructor for Aiken
Technical College. He received a bachelor’s degree in science from the University of South Carolina at Aiken in 1984 and a master’s degree in education from the University of South Carolina in 1996.
Hightower is chair of the USC-A Inclusion Advisory Council and the 2016 Aiken County United Way Campaign.
He and his wife Gwendolyn have three daughters, Michelle, Monica and Melanie.
Officers elected to lead the association’s board of directors for a one-year term are as follows:
- President, Queenie Boyd, Lee County School District
- Vice President, Tony Folk, Dorchester School District Four
- Treasurer, Chuck Saylors, Greenville County Schools
- Secretary, Cheryl Burgess, Lexington School District Three
Others elected to serve a four-year term on the 23-member board of directors as regional directors are:
- Region 2 Director, Cindy Bohn Coats, Charleston County School District
- Region 4 Director, Janice Morreale, Horry County Schools
- Region 8 Director, Jamie Devine, Richland One School District
- Region 12 Director, Annie McDaniel, Fairfield County School District
- Region 16 Director, Tom Dobbins, Anderson County School District 4
The South Carolina School Boards Association is a non-profit organization serving as a source of information and a statewide voice for boards governing the state’s 81 school districts.