Lynn Boswell will be the new representative for
District 5 on the
Austin ISD Board of Trustees, after winning her run-off against
Jennifer Littlefield by a nearly 10% margin Tuesday night. Boswell had also finished first – albeit much more narrowly – in the Nov. 3 election against Littlefield and third-place finisher
Piper Stege Nelson.
All of the candidates addressed educational equity in their campaigns. I gambled that District 5 was looking for that conversation, said Boswell about the Westside district that s home to some of Austin s wealthiest neighborhoods. I think that the wisdom for a long time has been that someone who was willing to talk too openly about that was not going to be the voice in our district.
Lynn Boswell and Noelita Lugo on Tuesday won their runoff races for District 5 and District 8 seats, respectively, on the Austin school board.
Boswell, a documentary filmmaker and former president of the Austin Council of PTAs, won the District 5 seat with 4,030 votes, or 54.83% of the 7,350 total votes cast in the runoff election, according to the Travis County Clerk s office. Jennifer Littlefield, a lawyer who ran against Boswell, garnered 3,320 votes.
Boswell on Wednesday told the American-Statesman that she looks forward to using her past experience working with parent organizations and other community efforts to represent the people in District 5, which includes much of Central and West Austin.
The two races for the Austin City Council that were not determined in November will be settled in Tuesday s runoff elections – and the results will be the latest testament to how the city s progressive movement on public safety and homelessness is playing with voters.
To this point, no council member has lost an election since the council approved cuts to the police department s budget this summer and repealed the city s public camping ban last summer. Leslie Pool and Greg Casar cruised to reelection in November, and Delia Garza will be the next Travis County attorney after winning the Democratic primary and running unopposed in the general election.