List of Superintendents
1852 – 1856 County Assessor J.W. Myrick, appointed first County Superintendent of Schools
1857 – 1864 H. Gaddis
1865 – 1866 M.A. Woods
1867 – 1870 R.R. Darby
1871 – 1874 G.N. Freeman
1875 – 1878 H.B. Pendegast
1879 – 1885 J.W. Goin, first elected Yolo County Superintendent of Schools
1886 – 1893 George Banks
1894 – 1910 Clara A. March, first woman to be elected in any Yolo County office. Women held the office until 1958.
1911 – 1925 Harriet Lee, Mother’s Day Founder
1926 – 1933 Rowena M. Norton
1934 – 1957 Eleanor Bandy
1958 – 1972 Martin A. Cabalzar
1973 – 1981 Jack J. Potter
1982 – 1990 John R. Graf
1991 – 1998 Elizabeth Zemmels
1999 – 2014 Jorge O. Ayala, first elected Latino County Superintendent in California
2015 - 2019 Jesse Ortiz
2019 - Garth Lewis

Garth Lewis (left), Jesse Ortiz (middle) and Jorge Ayala (right)