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Dear Ms. Ford-Jones:

This office is in receipt of your request for an opinion of the Attorney General in regard to dual officeholding. You ask whether an elected member of the BESE Board can legally and ethically simultaneously serve as Superintendent of a Public School, a position appointed by the local school board.

In Atty. Gen. Op. No. 92-598 it was concluded that a BESE board member holds state elective office.

Similar to your present question, in Atty. Gen. Op. No. 90-605 this office was asked whether an elected member of the State Board of Education may concurrently hold office as a…