John Van Heck will chair the separate school board, while Jane Bryce will oversee the public board.
Both the St. Clair Catholic District School Board and the Lambton-Kent District School Board picked their leaders recently at meetings where the new boards were sworn in.
Van Heck, who has been a St. Clair Catholic board trustee since 2006, was acclaimed to the position of chair of the board, a post he has held for the previous three years.
Trustee Mat Roop was elected to the position of vice chair. Roop served as a trustee for the former Lambton County Roman Catholic Separate School Board from 1984 to 1986. He retired from the St. Clair Catholic District School Board after 22 years as a manager in facility services.
Trustees for the LKDSB elected Bryce as the chair and Randy Campbell as vice-chair of the board.
Bryce has served as a school board trustee since 1994. She has formally held the position as chair and vice-chair.
Campbell was elected to the LKDSB in 2006 and has served on various board committees and is a long-standing member of the LKDSB supervised alternative learning committee.
