Nine Apply for Open D122 School Board Position

The New Lenox school board will choose from nine candidates to fill the vacancy left by Sue Gillooley, who resigned her position last month following stalking accusations. 

District 122 school board president Nick DiSandro said nine applications were received by the deadline Monday, July 2, and that all applicants will be interviewed. 

DiSandro said he'll be contacting the candidates this week to schedule interviews for sometime next week. After that, the board will hold a special meeting before that date to make a public vote on its selection.  

By law, the board has until July 26 to fill the vacancy. If it fails to do so by then, the Regional Office of Education superintendent will make the selection. 

Gillooley resigned June 11 following public accusations that she was stalking a resident. A Will County judge ordered that she and the accuser remain at least 100 feet apart for three months, giving them "an opportunity to calm down."  

Although Gillooley was re-elected to a four-year term in April 2011, the person appointed would only serve until the next local election, which is in April 2013. At that point, the appointee could run for election or leave the board. The winner of that election would then serve the remaining two years of Gillooley's term. 

That means five of the seven board seats will be up for election in 2013. DiSandro and Maureen Broderick were also elected in 2011, but the seats of Deb Kedzior, Pat Martino, Kathy Miller and Sue Smith will be on the April 2013 ballot.