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Wake County Board appoints Dr. Jennifer Job to fill District 8 vacancy after daylong interviews
Summary
After interviewing 14 applicants for the District 8 seat, the Wake County Board of Education reconvened in the evening and, by secret ballot, selected Dr. Jennifer Job. The board will notify all applicants of the outcome and adjourned after announcing the result.
The Wake County Board of Education voted on Nov. 25 to appoint Dr. Jennifer Job to fill the District 8 seat left vacant by Lindsay Mahaffey, Chair Haggerty announced after a secret ballot of eight board members. "This board has selected Dr. Jennifer Job as the replacement for Lindsay Mahaffey for District 8," the chair said when reading the tally.
The choice followed a day of public interviews during which 14 candidates answered the same eight questions in 30‑minute interviews. Board members recessed for deliberation around 5:10 p.m., cast private ballots and turned them over to legal staff for counting. The board tallied one vote for Dr. Candace Smith, two votes for Jennifer Dearman and five votes for Dr. Jennifer Job, producing a majority in the eight‑member panel.
The process and schedule were set publicly at the start of the special meeting: candidates were given 30 minutes each, five‑minute breaks were scheduled between interviews, and the board planned a lunch break from 11:55 a.m. to 12:25 p.m. Chair Haggerty thanked all applicants for participating and said staff would notify every candidate of the selection later the same evening.
The appointment is an internal board selection to fill the unexpired term for District 8. Following the announcement, board members moved to adjourn. The board did not take further public action at the meeting beyond the selection and the customary thank‑you remarks to candidates and staff.
The board’s recorded vote totals and the names read into the record reflect the paper ballots counted by legal staff at the meeting. Chair Haggerty said the ballots are a public record and would be retained in the district files.
