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Duval County School Board elects Charlotte Joyce chair, April Kearney vice chair
Summary
At its Nov. 18 organizational meeting the Duval County School Board elected Charlotte Joyce as chair and April Kearney as vice chair, administered oaths, set a regular meeting schedule and held a brief Leasing Corporation organizational session; no public comments were received.
Charlotte Joyce was elected chair of the Duval County School Board at the board’s Nov. 18, 2025, organizational meeting; April Kearney was elected vice chair. The board conducted nominations, closed the floor after no additional nominations were offered and declared the nominees elected for the 2025–26 organizational year.
The board administered the oath of office to both officers, who repeated the pledge to “support, protect, and defend the Constitution and government of the United States and of the State of Florida” and to “well and faithfully perform” their respective duties. After the oath, board members offered brief congratulations and urged work on the year ahead. Board member Pearson said, “To our new chairman, vice and we have work to do. Let's get to work.”
The board set its regular meetings for the first Tuesday of each month at 6 p.m., with specific exception dates listed for 2025–26, to be held in the first-floor boardroom of the Administration Building at 1701 Prudential Drive. By roll call the board approved the schedule, the transcript reports, by a 7 to 0 vote.
The board opened the public comment period and reported there were no public commenters. The meeting adjourned by unanimous vote.
What happens next: the board will meet on the schedule it adopted; no subsequent votes or follow-up tasks were recorded in the meeting transcript.
