Bronxville School Board Nominees Selected

Thanks to the NPC for the following:

The Bronxville Committee for the Non-Partisan Nomination and Election of School Trustees (“NPC”) is very pleased to announce David Brashear, Denise Tormey and Ruth Wood as its nominees for the three seats up for election on the seven member Board of Trustees. David Brashear and Denise Tormey are incumbents running for a second term. If elected, Ruth Wood will be serving her first term.

The 21 member NPC goes through a painstaking process each year to select the candidate that best suits the needs of the Bronxville School. This year, five extremely well qualified, talented candidates, including the three selected, participated in the nomination process. All candidates must submit an application to the NPC which includes personal statements as well as personal and professional references. The candidate is then interviewed by the 21 person NPC who, in preparation for the candidate interviews have met with standing Board of Education members as well as school administration to become informed of the most pressing challenges and needs of the school. The candidate’s references are contacted and interviewed. The committee collectively spends in excess of 500 hours in full committee meetings completing the nomination process. The NPC as a group endeavors to conduct the extensive due diligence that would otherwise be difficult for an individual to perform. Factors that are considered include the current composition of the Board, the pending issues facing the school, Board and community and the skill sets of each of the candidates. The 21 person committee is comprised of 3 elected residents from each of Bronxville’s seven electoral districts resulting in a cross section of residents with differing viewpoints who are in different phases of life in terms of school involvement.

The annual School Budget Vote and School Board Trustee Election will be held on Tuesday, May 22nd, 2013.

A biography of each of the candidates is set forth below.

David Brashear

David Brashear and his wife, Janet, have been residents of Bronxville since 2007. They have four children, one son who has graduated from Bronxville School and the other three who currently attend the Bronxville School: a daughter in eleventh grade; a son in fifth grade; and a daughter in sixth grade.
David is currently the President of Edgewood Investors, an investment firm he started in 1999. Prior to his current position, David was Vice-President of Technology Marketing at Fannie Mae, where he started and ran a technology-based business.

David is the current President of the Bronxville Board of Education (2010-Present) and also serves on the Boards of the Pittsburgh History and Landmarks Foundation, the Muscarelle Museum of Art at the College of William & Mary, WHRO Public Media, the Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts at the University of Pennsylvania and Virginia Beach Vision.

David earned his MBA from Harvard University and his BS in Economics from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

Denise Tormey

Denise and her husband, Dennis, have been residents of Bronxville since 1988. They have four children, three who have graduated from Bronxville School and a son who is currently a senior in the Bronxville high school.

Denise is a partner at Dentons US LLP, a global law firm. She was the Managing Partner of the New York office between the years of 2006 and 2010.

Denise serves on the Board of Directors of KEEN(Kids Enjoy Exercise Now) New York, a non-profit organization whose mission is to provide free one-on-one recreational opportunities for children and teens with physical, mental and developmental disabilities; Will’s Foundation for Good Works, Inc., a non-profit organization whose primary purpose is to provide support to organizations engaged in charitable, scientific or educational activities related to the treatment and cure of Angelmans Syndrome, a severe genetic neurological disorder; the Academy of Mt. St. Ursula. Previously, she served on the Board of the Community Fund of Bronxville-Eastchester-Tuckahoe.

Denise earned her BA in Political Science and French from Boston College and her JD from St. John’s University School of Law.

Ruth Wood

Ruth and her husband, Mark, have been residents of Bronxville since 1992. They have four children, one son who has graduated from Bronxville School and three children currently attending Bronxville School: a daughter in eleventh grade; a daughter in tenth grade; and a daughter in sixth grade.
Ruth was the Executive Director of the Bronxville Chamber of Commerce between the years of 2008 and 2011.

Ruth has served on the Executive Board of the Bronxville Youth Lacrosse Association, the PTA Executive Board as the Bronxville High School Council Chair, and the Chamber of Commerce Board as Executive Director. She currently serves on the Vestry of Christ Church of Bronxville. She has held multiple grade chair positions as well as running various Memorial Day events for the school.

Ruth earned her BA in Psychology from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas.