Erskine Simmons
Erskine Simmons is a member of the Tuscaloosa City Schools school board in Alabama, representing District 7. He assumed office in 2009. His current term ends in 2029.
Simmons won re-election to the Tuscaloosa City Schools school board to represent District 7 in Alabama outright after the general election on March 4, 2025, was canceled.
Biography
Simmons earned his associate degree in business from the University of Phoenix. He also attended Alabama A&M University. Simmons has experience working as a warehouse manager for JIT Services and as a restaurant manager. At the time of his tenure, Simmons was working as a production manager for ARD Logistics Alabama LLC.[1]
Elections
2025
See also: Tuscaloosa City Schools, Alabama, elections (2025)
General election
The general election was canceled. Erskine Simmons (Nonpartisan) won without appearing on the ballot.
Endorsements
Ballotpedia did not identify endorsements for Simmons in this election.
2021
See also: Tuscaloosa City Schools, Alabama, elections (2021)
General election
The general election was canceled. Erskine Simmons (Nonpartisan) won without appearing on the ballot.
2017
- See also: Tuscaloosa City Schools elections (2017)
A total of 19 candidates sought the eight seats up for election on the Tuscaloosa City Schools Board of Education in Alabama on March 7, 2017. Four years after allegations of voter fraud in the 2013 Tuscaloosa City Schools elections, District 4 incumbent Cason Kirby did not seek re-election to his seat. In addition to Kirby, three other incumbents did not file to run for re-election. In the races for three seats, no candidate received at least 50 percent of the vote necessitating a runoff election that was held on April 18, 2017.
In District 1, Matthew Wilson defeated LaQuishia Chandler in the runoff election after defeating candidates Tony Humphries and Earnestine Young in the general election. The District 2 runoff race newcomer Kendra Williams defeated incumbent Earnestine Tucker and challenger. The third candidate, Paul Sanders Sr., did not receive enough votes to advance to the runoff election. In the District 5 general election, incumbent Harry Lee was defeated by challengers Erica Grant and Beth Cleino Allaway. Grant defeated Allaway in the runoff election. Incoming board chairman Eric Wilson and District 3 candidate Guy May ran unopposed and were automatically elected to their seats. Patrick Hamner defeated Zoe Winston in the race for District 4, incumbent Marvin Lucas defeated challenger Andrew Robertson in District 6, and Erskine Simmons defeated LaQuetta Peoples in District 7.[2][3]
Results
| Tuscaloosa City Schools, District 7 General Election, 4-year term, 2017 |
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|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Vote % | Votes |
 Erskine Simmons Incumbent |
54.69% | 536 |
| LaQuetta Peoples | 45.31% | 444 |
| Total Votes | 980 | |
| Source: City of Tuscaloosa, "Tuscaloosa City Council Reconvened Meeting Agenda," March 14, 2017 | ||
2013
- See also: Tuscaloosa City Schools elections (2013)
Simmons won re-election to the District 7 seat on the Tuscaloosa City Board of Education. He defeated challenger Renwick Jones in the general election on August 27, 2013.
| Tuscaloosa Board of Education District 7, 2013 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
| Nonpartisan | Erskine Simmons Incumbent |
64.1% | 688 | |
| Nonpartisan | Renwick Jones | 35.9% | 385 | |
| Total Votes | 1,073 | |||
| Source: Fox 6 News These results are unofficial. | ||||
2009
Simmons first won election to the District 7 position on the Tuscaloosa City Board of Education in the general election on August 25, 2009, without opposition.
Campaign themes
2025
Ballotpedia survey responses
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Erskine Simmons did not complete Ballotpedia's 2025 Candidate Connection survey.
2021
Erskine Simmons did not complete Ballotpedia's 2021 Candidate Connection survey.
2013
Simmons highlighted the following issues on his campaign website:
| “ | Our system has made several strides over the last few years. Even through the tragedies of the storm, our system has been made stronger, safer, and better than ever before. We have added 21 pre-k classrooms, extended our social services for parents and students, and hired specialists in reading and math. Expulsions and disciplinary problems have continued to decrease through our nationally recognized HELP, HALT, STARS and Success Prep programs.[4] | ” |
| —Erskine Simmons campaign website (2015)[5] | ||
See also
2025 Elections
External links
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Personal |
Footnotes
- ↑ TuscaloosaNews.com, "Simmons: ‘We’ve made a lot of strides’," August 3, 2012
- ↑ Tuscaloosa News, "Three Tuscaloosa school board seats up in runoff election," March 7, 2017
- ↑ WBRC, "Results in for Tuscaloosa school board runoff elections," April 18, 2017
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ Elect Erskine Simmons, "Moving Forward," August 15, 2013
