Bobbie Singh-Allen
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Bobbie Singh-Allen represented Trustee Area 4 on the Elk Grove Unified School District Board of Education in California. She was first appointed to the board on August 16, 2012.[1][2] Singh-Allen filed to run for re-election in the general election on November 6, 2018, but the election was canceled due to lack of opposition. Singh-Allen won the election by default.[3] She vacated the position in December of 2020 when she was elected mayor of Elk Grove.[4]
Biography
Singh-Allen was born in India and immigrated to the United States when she was four years old. She and her husband Jake Allen had two children enrolled in the Elk Grove Unified School District.[1]
Singh-Allen has worked as the executive vice president and chief operating officer for the California Lodging Industry Association. She earned her bachelor's degree from California State University at Sacramento and her J.D. from Lincoln Law School. Singh-Allen was also a member of the Elk Grove Teen Center’s Board of Directors and the delegate assembly for the California School Boards Association.[5]
Elections
2018
The following candidate won election automatically as the election was canceled due to lack of opposition.
General election
The general election was canceled. Bobbie Singh-Allen (Nonpartisan) won without appearing on the ballot.
2014
Three seats on the Elk Grove Unified School District Board of Education were up for general election on November 4, 2014. No incumbent filed to run for re-election in Trustee Area 2, leaving the race to four candidates: Nicholas Aaron Webster, James Letoa, Tim Gorsulowsky and Crystal Martinez-Alire. Martinez-Alire won the seat. In Trustee Area 4, incumbent Bobbie Singh-Allen ran unopposed and won re-election by default. Elizabeth Marie Albiani, candidate for Trustee Area 5, also ran unopposed and won election to the board by default.
Results
This election was canceled due to lack of opposition. Trustee Area 4 incumbent Bobbie Singh-Allen was re-elected by default.[6]
Funding
The Sacramento County Voter Registration and Elections Office does not publish and freely disclose school board candidate campaign finance reports. Ballotpedia staffers directly requested this information, but the municipal office refused those requests to make that information public.[7]
Endorsements
Singh Allen received endorsements from the following organizations and state officials:[8]
- California Correctional Peace Officers Association
- American Sikh PAC
- Sacramento County Deputy Sheriffs’ Association
- California Commissioner of Insurance Dave Jones
- State Senator Darrell Steinberg
- Assemblyman Roger Dickinson
- Assemblywoman Mariko Yamada
She was also endorsed by a number of municipal officials and school board members. A full list of her supporters can be found here.
See also
- Elk Grove Unified School District, California
- Elk Grove Unified School District elections (2018)
- Elk Grove Unified School District elections (2014)
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Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Elk Grove Unified School District, "Board of Education: Bobbie Singh-Allen," accessed October 16, 2014
- ↑ Sacramento County Voter Registration and Elections, "Contest/Candidate Proof List 2014 General Election," accessed August 20, 2014
- ↑ Elk Grove Citizen, "Election ’18: A roundup of candidates in the November election," August 14, 2018
- ↑ Elk Grove Unified School District, "Elk Grove Unified Trustee Bobbie Singh-Allen Steps Down from Board of Education and Accepts New Role as Mayor for the City of Elk Grove," December 11, 2020
- ↑ Bobbie Singh-Allen for Elk Grove Unified School District 2014, "About," accessed October 16, 2014
- ↑ California Election Code, "Section 10229," accessed October 13, 2014
- ↑ Email submitted to Ballotpedia from the Sacramento County Voter Registration Office on October 27, 2014
- ↑ Bobbie Singh-Allen for Elk Grove Unified School District 2014, "Endorsements," accessed October 16, 2014
| Elk Grove Unified School District elections in 2018 | |
| Sacramento County, California | |
| Election date: | November 6, 2018 (canceled) |
| Important information: | What was at stake? |
