After nearly six years as trustee for Area VII (La Selva Beach & Rio Del Mar) on the Pajaro Valley Unified School District, including two terms as president, Dr. Jennifer Holm announced she will step down effective Oct. 10, citing increasing demands of her role as nursing program director at Cabrillo College.
The Board of Trustees will engage in a process to appoint a new trustee from Area VII within the next 60 days. The appointee will serve the rest of Holm’s term, which ends in December 2026.
It is too late to get on the ballot for Nov. 5 as the deadline when incumbents do not run was Aug. 14.
See the Area VII as www.pvusd.net/District/Board/index.html
Holm,has been a district parent for 20+ years starting when her eldest child enrolled at Rio Del Mar Elementary in Aptos in 2003. Her youngest child is now a student at Aptos High School.
She was elected to the school board in 2018.
A graduate of UC Santa Cruz, she got her registered nurse training at Cabrillo College, and worked in the Intermediate Intensive Care Nursery at Watsonville Community Hospital. She shared that it has been a joy for her for see these “graduates” walk the stage at PVUSD commencement ceremonies.
She joined the Cabrillo College nursing program faculty first part-time, then in August 2018 full-time, and earned her doctorate in nursing practice in May 2022 from San Jose State University. She became Cabrillo’s nursing program director in January 2023.