Elected to Serve
The Cherokee
County School
Board is comprised
of six
members elected by specific
voting districts and a chair
who is elected countywide.
Together, the current
School Board members
boast more than 60 years
of service to the students of
the Cherokee County
School District. The School
Board has achieved multiple
state and national
recognitions for leadership
and governance, including
awards from the Georgia
School Boards Association
and the National School
Boards Association.
Kyla Cromer of Bridge-
Mill, who serves as Chair, is
a former elementary school
teacher and learning center
director who served as a
school, county and state
PTA leader before beginning
her service on the
School Board. Now in her
eighth year on the School
Board and her sixth year as
the countywide-elected
Chair, Ms. Cromer, in
addition to leading School
Board meetings and serving
as the spokesperson for
the School Board, is known
locally and statewide for
her service to public education.
Both of her daughters
are CCSD graduates.
Vice Chair Robert
Rechsteiner of southwest
Cherokee, known by his
nickname Rick Steiner
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Cherokee County Board of Education: Front row, from left, Kelly Poole, Chair Kyla Cromer, Patsy
Jordan. Back row, from left, Clark Menard, John Harmon, Mike Chapman, Vice Chair Robert Rechsteiner,
from his career in professional
wrestling, has served
for 16 years on the School
Board. A Realtor and
longtime youth sports
volunteer and supporter,
Mr. Rechsteiner is elected
by District 4, which includes
Etowah High School
and southwest Cherokee.
All three of his sons are
CCSD graduates.
Kelly Poole of Bridge-
Mill, who is elected by
District 1 which also includes
Holly Springs and
the Sixes community, is a
bookkeeper with experience
in nonprofits and their
audits and joined the
School Board to expand
upon her longtime service
to local schools through the
PTA. Her daughter and
son are CCSD graduates.
Patsy Jordan of the
Yellow Creek community
has been a part of CCSD
and public education all of
her life and career, which
included serving as a school
custodian, school bus
driver and teacher, for
which she earned the honor
of Teacher of the Year.
After retiring, Ms. Jordan
continued to serve by
joining the School Board in
2012. She is elected by
District 2, which includes
Creekview High School and
all of northeast Cherokee.
John Harmon built
upon his service to youth
through coaching baseball
and basketball and serving
on the Hickory Flat ES
School Council by joining
the School Board in 2014.
A Hickory Flat businessman,
Mr. Harmon is
elected by District 3 that
includes River Ridge High
School, Sequoyah High
School and all of southeast
Cherokee. He and his wife,
a CCSD teacher, share five
children between the ages
of 10 and 16.
A certified public
accountant, Clark Menard
of Woodstock joined the
School Board in 2015 after
and Superintendent Dr. Brian V. Hightower.