Tom Ferris, Chair

- Retired businessman.
- Former teacher-on-call, Okanagan District.
- Director, Entrepreneurial Learning Foundation.
- Sponsor, Youth In Action Awards.
- Volunteer, Junior Achievement.
- Volunteer, Ecole Quadra Elementary School.
- Past Chair, Swan Lake Christmas Hill Nature Sanctuary.

Dave’s experience as an educator in this school district will serve him well as a school trustee. He has gained an in-depth knowledge of student learning and the function of schools through his 37 years of service as a teacher, counsellor, vice principal, principal and associate superintendent.
He has served with hundreds of teachers and staff members who as a team supported literally thousands of students and their families. He has been the principal of S. J. Willis Junior Secondary, Central Junior Secondary, Spectrum Community School, Reynolds Secondary, Shoreline Community School and Shoreline Community Middle School.
As a school trustee Dave seeks to continue to serve in the best interests of students, their families and the staffs of our schools.

Catherine Alpha

Bio coming soon 

Jim Holland

Jim Holland is a father of two and an Anglican clergyman. He is currently serving his third term on the Greater Victoria School Board. Holland has been involved in public education for some 15 years, as VCPAC Chair; as a BCCPAC Director; and as a member of the Council of the BC College of Teachers. He has served on many other community and provincial Boards, including the Provincial Child Care Commission. "

Bev Horsman

Bev has been a Trustee for 21 years. She has served as the Chair of the Education Policy Development Committee for 15 years, is the former Vice-Chair of the Board of Education, the former President, CPAV (now VCPAC), former Director of BCSTA (five terms), former President, VISTA (Vancouver Island School Trustees Association) and a former member of TNAC (Treaty Negotiations Advisory Committee). She has served on many community action and advisory committees over the years such as Victoria and Saanich Parks and Recreation, Swan Lake Board, Race Relations Council Steering Committee and Education Committee, Arts Commission Steering Committee, French Immersion Advisory, Community Schools Committee and many others. Trustee Horsman is a long-time parent activist and advocate for equity programs and "At Risk" programs in Victoria, Bev organized the first school lunch program in Victoria. She is the proud grandparent of three, with two grandchildren in the school system.

Elaine Leonard

Elaine Leonard has served for twelve years as a trustee and for three years as chairman of the Board of Education. She is a parent of 2 children and has volunteered for over 14 years in our classrooms. Elaine has served in various executive positions of the Esquimalt School & McKenzie School parent Advisory Councils, Esquimalt Music Parents Association and Christopher Robin Co-op Pre-School.

Michael McEvoy

Mr. McEvoy is a seven year Trustee and served three terms as Chairman of the Greater Victoria Board of Education (2004-2007).
He is strongly committed to increasing the district's graduation rates, strengthening programs that improve literacy and numeracy, especially in early grades, and developing our students’ sense of social responsibility and citizenship.
Mr. McEvoy serves on numerous committees at a provincial and local level. He is the Vice-President of the BC School Trustees' Association and has served on number of community bodies including those in Saanich, Victoria and Oak Bay. He is presently the Campaign Chair for the United Way of Greater Victoria. He is a former executive member of the Victoria Confederation of Parent Advisory Councils and President of the Parent Advisory Council at Sir James Douglas School. Mr. McEvoy is married and has two daughters in the public school system.

Peg Orcherton

Peg is married, a parent of four children and a grandmother. Three children have graduated from District High Schools, (two from Victoria High, making that the fourth generation in her family, and one from Mount Douglas) and one (a 14-year-old) who currently is a student in the District. Peg is a two-term Trustee for the Greater Victoria School District and serves on the Healthy Schools Committee and the Education Policy Development Committee. She has also served on the City of Victoria Social Planning Advisory Committee. Peg is active in community organizations, the BC Government and Service Employees Union, Child Find BC and was a long time delegate to the Victoria Labour Council. In her spare time, Peg works full-time for Health Insurance of British Columbia (MSP).
Peg believes that "Every child has the right to access the maximum in education opportunity, regardless of their or their families’ economic or social circumstance."

John Young

President of the BC Advocacy Institute and a former Elementary, Junior and Senior High School Principal and a former Professor and international educator. Has served 13 years as a Trustee in Victoria and holds Bachelor and Master degrees from UBC, plus a post-graduate diploma from the University of Paris (Sorbonne). A strong advocate for the "underclass" children in our schools.