1852   Office of County Superintendent of Schools established

 

1852 – X    County Assessor L.M. Mering, appointed first County Superintendent of Schools

 

1855 – 1856    L.M. Mering, first elected Yolo County Superintendent of Schools

 

1856 – 1857   Nicholas Wyckoff (appointed)

 

1857 – 1864    Henry Gaddis (re-elected in 1859, 1861, and 1863)

 

1865 – 1866    M.A. Woods

 

1867 – 1870    R.R. Darby (re-elected in 1969)

 

1871 – 1874    G.N. Freeman (re-elected in 1873)

 

1875 – 1878    H.B. Pendegast (re-elected in 1877)

 

1879 – 1885    J.W. Goin (re-elected in 1882, 1884)

 

1886 – 1893    George Banks (re-elected in 1888, 1890, 1892)

 

1894 – 1897    Clara A. March

First woman to be elected to any Yolo County office. She passed away in office in July 1897.

 

1897 – 1898    H.B. Pendegast (appointed)

 

1898 – 1902    S.E. Peart

 

1902 – 1906    Minnie De Villbiss (re-elected in 1882)

De Villbiss passed away in office in January 1906

 

1906 – 1914    May Dexter-Henshall (appointed)

 

1910 – 1914    May E. Dexter-Henshall

 

1914 – 1925    Harriet S. Lee (re-elected in 1918, 1922)

Mother’s Day Founder

 

1926 – 1934    Rowena M. Norton (re-elected in 1930)

 

1934 – 1958    Eleanor K. Bandy (re-elected in 1938, 1942, 1946, 1950, 1954)

Longest serving County Superintendent in Yolo County with 24 years in office

 

1958 – 1972    Martin A. Cabalzar (re-elected in 1962, 1966, 1970)

 

1973 – 1982    Jack J. Potter (appointed in 1973, elected in 1974, re-elected in 1978)

 

1982 – 1990    John R. Graf (re-elected in 1986)

 

1991 – 1998    Elizabeth Zemmels (re-elected in 1994)

 

1998 – 2014    Jorge O. Ayala (re-elected in 2002)

First elected Latino County Superintendent in California

 

2015 - 2019    Jesse Ortiz

 

2019 - current   Garth Lewis (re-elected in 2023)