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Yolo County Office of Education

Yolo County Office of Education

List of Superintendents

1852 – 1856    County Assessor J.W. Myrick, appointed first County Superintendent of Schools
 
1857 – 1864    H. Gaddis
 
1865 – 1866    M.A. Woods
 
1867 – 1870    R.R. Darby
 
1871 – 1874    G.N. Freeman
 
1875 – 1878    H.B. Pendegast
 
1879 – 1885    J.W. Goin, first elected Yolo County Superintendent of Schools
 
1886 – 1893    George Banks
 
1894 – 1910    Clara A. March, first woman to be elected in any Yolo County office. Women held the office until 1958. 
 
1911 – 1925    Harriet Lee, Mother’s Day Founder
 
1926 – 1933    Rowena M. Norton
 
1934 – 1957    Eleanor Bandy
 
1958 – 1972    Martin A. Cabalzar
 
1973 – 1981    Jack J. Potter
 
1982 – 1990    John R. Graf
 
1991 – 1998    Elizabeth Zemmels
 
1999 – 2014    Jorge O. Ayala, first elected Latino County       Superintendent in California
 
2015 - 2019    Jesse Ortiz
 
2019 -              Garth Lewis
 
Past superintendents Garth Lewis (left), Jesse Ortiz (middle) and Jorge Ayala (right)
 Garth Lewis (left), Jesse Ortiz (middle) and Jorge Ayala (right)