Clay Lopez
2018 - Present
2025
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Clay Lopez is an at-large member of the Pickerington Local School District Board of Education in Ohio. He assumed office on January 8, 2018. His current term ends on December 31, 2025.
Lopez ran for re-election for an at-large seat of the Pickerington Local School District Board of Education in Ohio. He won in the general election on November 2, 2021.
Lopez previously served on the Pickerington Local School District Board of Education from 2008 to 2013.[1]
Biography
Lopez received his bachelor's degree in sociology and anthropology from West Virginia University and his Juris Doctor from Capital University Law School. He has worked as an associate attorney at Amy M. Levine & Associates.[1]
Elections
2021
See also: Pickerington Local School District, Ohio, elections (2021)
General election
General election for Pickerington Local School District Board of Education At-large (3 seats)
The following candidates ran in the general election for Pickerington Local School District Board of Education At-large on November 2, 2021.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Vanessa Niekamp (Nonpartisan) | 16.6 | 4,597 |
| ✔ | J.D. Postage (Nonpartisan) | 16.2 | 4,489 | |
| ✔ |  | Clay Lopez (Nonpartisan) | 15.7 | 4,341 |
 | Christian Johnson (Nonpartisan) | 11.7 | 3,240 | |
| Mark Hensen (Nonpartisan) | 10.2 | 2,830 | ||
 | Charles Newman (Nonpartisan)  | 10.1 | 2,804 | |
 | Ryan Holstine (Nonpartisan) | 9.8 | 2,711 | |
| Vanessa Hayes-William (Nonpartisan) | 9.5 | 2,635 | ||
| Total votes: 27,647 | |||
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2017
Three of five seats on the Pickerington Local School District Board of Education in Ohio were up for at-large general election on November 7, 2017. Two incumbents ran for re-election. Incumbents Vanessa Niekamp and Lori Sanders were the only candidates to file for the three at-large seats by the filing deadline on August 9, 2017. Five more candidates, Nick Derksen, David Horton, Mark Kenney, Clay Lopez, and E. Gayle Saunders, ran as write-in candidates. Incumbents Niekamp and Sanders and write-in candidate Lopez won the election.[2][3][4]
| Pickerington Local School District, At-Large General Election, 4-year terms, 2017 |
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|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Vote % | Votes |
 Lori Sanders Incumbent |
37.31% | 5,008 |
| Vanessa Niekamp Incumbent |
32.23% | 4,327 |
| Clay Lopez |
8.78% | 1,179 |
| Nick Derksen | 6.24% | 838 |
| E. Gayle Saunders | 6.22% | 835 |
| David Horton | 4.74% | 636 |
| Mark Kenney | 2.37% | 318 |
| Write-in votes | 2.11% | 283 |
| Total Votes | 13,424 | |
| Source: Franklin County Board of Elections, "2017 General Election, Official Results," accessed November 27, 2017 and Franklin County Board of Elections, "2017 General Election, Write-in Canvass," accessed November 27, 2017 and Fairfield County Board of Elections, "Election Summary Report, General Election, Official Canvass," accessed December 6, 2017 | ||
2013
Lopez faced his fellow incumbents Cathy Olshefski and Lori A. Sanders, as well as challenger Vanessa Niekamp.
Results
| Pickerington Local School District, At-large General Election, 4-year term, 2013 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
| Nonpartisan | Lori A. Sanders Incumbent |
28.5% | 2,609 | |
| Nonpartisan | Vanessa Niekamp |
25.3% | 2,317 | |
| Nonpartisan | Cathy Olshefski Incumbent |
23.1% | 2,116 | |
| Nonpartisan | Clay Lopez Incumbent | 23.1% | 2,112 | |
| Total Votes | 9,154 | |||
| Source: Fairfield County Elections, "Election Summary Report for General Election in Fairfield County, Ohio," accessed December 13, 2013 | ||||
Endorsements
Lopez was not endorsed in this election.
Funding
Lopez reported no contributions or expenditures to the Ohio Secretary of State.[5]
Campaign themes
2021
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Clay Lopez did not complete Ballotpedia's 2021 Candidate Connection survey.
See also
2021 Elections
External links
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Officeholder Pickerington Local School District Board of Education At-large |
Personal |
Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 LinkedIn, "Clay Lopez," accessed October 10, 2017
- ↑ Fairfield County Board of Elections, "Certified Candidate and Issue List," accessed October 3, 2017
- ↑ Franklin County Board of Elections, "2017 General Election, Unofficial Results," accessed November 7, 2017
- ↑ Fairfield County Board of Elections, "Unofficial Certification of Results by the Most Populous County (Candidates)," accessed November 9, 2017
- ↑ Ohio Secretary of State, "Elections & Voting: Campaign Finance," accessed December 23, 2013
