Ilryong Moon
2024 - Present
2028
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Ilryong Moon is an at-large member of the Fairfax County Public Schools in Virginia. He assumed office on January 1, 2024. His current term ends on January 1, 2028.
Moon ran for election for an at-large seat of the Fairfax County Public Schools in Virginia. He won in the general election on November 7, 2023.
Biography
Moon graduated from T.C. Williams Senior High School in 1977. He later earned a B.A. from Harvard University in 1981 and a J.D. from College of William and Mary in 1984. Moon is an attorney and partner at Moon, Park & Associates. He previously served as a member of the board from 1995 to 1999 and an at-large member of the Fairfax County Planning Commission from 2000 to 2003.[1]
Elections
2023
See also: Fairfax County Public Schools, Virginia, elections (2023)
General election
General election for Fairfax County Public Schools, At-large (3 seats)
The following candidates ran in the general election for Fairfax County Public Schools, At-large on November 7, 2023.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Ryan McElveen (Nonpartisan) | 19.9 | 169,203 |
| ✔ |  | Ilryong Moon (Nonpartisan) | 19.6 | 166,706 |
| ✔ | Kyle McDaniel (Nonpartisan)  | 19.2 | 163,884 | |
 | Saundra Davis (Nonpartisan) | 11.5 | 97,906 | |
 | Maureen Brody (Nonpartisan) | 10.6 | 90,288 | |
 | Cassandra Aucoin (Nonpartisan) | 10.4 | 88,478 | |
 | Linda Ann Pellegrino (Nonpartisan) | 3.2 | 27,136 | |
 | Ahmed Hussein (Nonpartisan) | 2.8 | 23,916 | |
 | Peter Gabor (Nonpartisan) | 2.5 | 21,516 | |
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.4 | 3,064 | ||
| Total votes: 852,097 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Hamid Munir (Nonpartisan)
- Abrar Omeish (Nonpartisan)
- Lawrence Webb (Nonpartisan)
- Chris Lewis (Nonpartisan)
Endorsements
Moon received the following endorsements.
- U.S. Rep. Gerald Edward Connolly (D)
- State Sen. George Barker (D)
- State Sen. Jennifer Boysko (D)
- State Sen. Adam Ebbin (D)
- State Sen. Dave Marsden (D)
- State Sen. John Chapman Petersen (D)
- State Sen. Dick Saslaw (D)
- State Sen. Scott Surovell (D)
- State Rep. David Bulova (D)
- State Rep. Eileen Filler-Corn (D)
- State Rep. Kaye Kory (D)
- State Rep. Paul Krizek (D)
- State Rep. Alfonso Lopez (D)
- State Rep. Irene Shin (D)
- State Rep. Mark Sickles (D)
- State Rep. Marcus Simon (D)
- State Rep. R.C. Sullivan Jr. (D)
- State Rep. Kathy Tran (D)
- State Rep. Vivian Watts (D)
- Fairfax County Supervisor Walter Alcorn
- Fairfax County Sch. Brd. Memb. Laura Jane Cohen (D)
- Fairfax County Supervisor John Foust (D)
- Fairfax County Supervisor Penelope Gross
- Fairfax County Sch. Brd. Memb. Rachna Heizer (Nonpartisan)
- Fairfax County Sch. Brd. Memb. Tamara Derenak Kaufax (Nonpartisan)
- Fairfax Cnty. Sheriff Stacey Kincaid
- Fairfax County Supervisor Rodney Lusk
- Fairfax County Supervisor Jeff McKay
- Fairfax Sch. Brd. Memb. Megan McLaughlin
- Fairfax County Sch. Brd. Memb. Melanie Meren
- Fairfax County Supervisor Dalia Palchik
- Fairfax Sch. Brd. Memb. Stella Pekarsky (D)
- Fairfax County Sch. Brd. Memb. Karen Corbett Sanders
- Fairfax County Supervisor Kathy Smith
- Fairfax Cnty. Supervisor Daniel G. "Dan" Storck (D)
- Fairfax County Supervisor James Walkinshaw (D)
- Frmr. State Rep. Kris Amundson (D)
- Fairfax County, Va., Democratic Party
- Fairfax Education Association
- Democratic Asian Americans of Virginia
- Matt Royer - Va. Young Dems Pres.
- David Walrod - Fairfax Cnty. Federation of Teachers Pres.
Pledges
Moon signed the following pledges.
2019
See also: Fairfax County Public Schools, Virginia, elections (2019)
General election
General election for Fairfax County Public Schools, At-large (3 seats)
The following candidates ran in the general election for Fairfax County Public Schools, At-large on November 5, 2019.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Karen Keys-Gamarra (Nonpartisan) | 22.2 | 179,258 |
| ✔ |  | Abrar Omeish (Nonpartisan) | 20.0 | 161,258 |
| ✔ |  | Rachna Heizer (Nonpartisan) | 19.4 | 156,397 |
 | Cheryl Buford (Nonpartisan) | 13.9 | 112,108 | |
 | Priscilla DeStefano (Nonpartisan) | 13.5 | 108,708 | |
 | Vinson Palathingal (Nonpartisan) | 10.8 | 86,751 | |
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.3 | 2,457 | ||
| Total votes: 806,937 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Ilryong Moon (Nonpartisan)
2015
The Fairfax County School Board is a 12-member board elected to serve four-year terms. Three seats are elected at large and nine seats are elected by district.[2] All 12 seats were on the ballot on November 3, 2015.
At-large incumbents Ryan McElveen, Ilryong Moon and Ted Velkoff faced Robert Copeland, Omar Fateh, Jeanette Hough, Manar Jean-Jacques, Peter Marchetti and Burnette Scarboro for three seats. While Moon and McElveen won re-election, Velkoff was defeated, placing fourth to challenger Hough.
Braddock District incumbent Megan McLaughlin, Hunter Mill District incumbent Pat Hynes and Providence District incumbent Patricia Reed faced Katherine Pettigrew, Mark Wilkinson and Dalia Palchik, respectively. Dranesville District incumbent Jane Strauss competed against challenger Peter Kurzenhauser. McLaughlin, Hynes, and Strauss won re-election; the fourth incumbent, Reed, lost to Palchik.
The races for both the Mount Vernon District and Sully District seats featured newcomers after neither incumbent filed for re-election. Karen Corbett Sanders defeated W. Anthony Stacy in the Mount Vernon race, while Karen Keys-Gamarra lost to Thomas Wilson in the Sully District race. Lee District incumbent Tamara Derenak Kaufax, Mason District incumbent Sandra Evans and Springfield District incumbent Elizabeth Schultz all ran unopposed and won re-election to their seats.
Results
| Fairfax County School Board, At-large, General Election, 2015 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Vote % | Votes |
 Ilryong Moon Incumbent |
17.2% | 84,364 |
| Ryan McElveen Incumbent |
17.0% | 83,160 |
| Jeanette Hough |
16.3% | 80,035 |
| Ted Velkoff Incumbent | 15.3% | 74,948 |
| Robert Copeland | 15.2% | 74,454 |
| Manar Jean-Jacques | 11.6% | 57,043 |
| Peter Marchetti | 2.6% | 12,809 |
| Omar Fateh | 2.3% | 11,062 |
| Burnette Scarboro | 2.2% | 10,676 |
| Write-in votes | 0.3% | 1,458 |
| Total Votes | 490,009 | |
| Source: Virginia Department of Elections, "2015 November General", accessed November 3, 2015 | ||
Funding
Moon reported no contributions or expenditures to the Virginia State Board of Elections as of October 28, 2015.[3]
Endorsements
Moon received official endorsements for his campaign from the Fairfax County Democratic Party, Fairfax County Federation of Teachers and The Washington Post.[4][5][6]
2011
| Fairfax County Public Schools, At-Large General Election 4-year term, 2011 |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
| Nonpartisan | Ilryong Moon Incumbent |
17.9% | 92,553 | |
| Nonpartisan | Ryan McElveen |
16.9% | 87,150 | |
| Nonpartisan | Ted Velkoff |
16.5% | 85,294 | |
| Nonpartisan | Sheree Brown-Kaplan | 15.8% | 81,549 | |
| Nonpartisan | Lolita Mancheno-Smoak | 13.5% | 69,935 | |
| Nonpartisan | Lin-Dai Kendall | 12.2% | 63,119 | |
| Nonpartisan | Steven Stuban | 7.2% | 37,456 | |
| Total Votes | 517,056 | |||
| Source: Fairfax County, Virginia, "Official Returns," accessed July 22, 2015 | ||||
Campaign themes
2023
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Other survey responses
Ballotpedia identified the following surveys, interviews, and questionnaires Moon completed for other organizations. If you are aware of a link that should be added, email us.
- Fairfax Democrats
- ACLU Fairfax, 4PublicEducation, Stand and Deliver Virginia
- Patch
- League of Women Voters
2019
Ilryong Moon did not complete Ballotpedia's 2019 Candidate Connection survey.
2015
Candidate website
Moon's campaign website listed the following themes for 2015:
| “ |
Ilryong cares about helping make Fairfax County Public Schools the best in America because he understands first-hand the value of a good education. Free public education provided him with opportunities to overcome language barriers and poverty, become a lawyer, raise two children, and serve in public. He was the first one to go to college from his family. When he immigrated to the United States in 1974, he had to repeat the 10th grade due to difficulty with the English Language. After graduating from T.C. Williams High School in 1977, Ilryong went on to graduate from Harvard University, and is now a partner in a successful law practice in Annandale. As a product of public schools, Ilryong knows first-hand just how much a quality public education can mean for the success of today's youth. During his 16-year tenure in office as a school board member, Ilryong oversaw much needed improvements and continuous advancement in this world-class school system — one of the country’s best. As the father of two graduates in Fairfax County public schools, he is a former ESL student who believes that excellent education should be available to all. |
” |
| —Ilryong Moon, (2015), [1] | ||
Recent news
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See also
2023 Elections
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Moon for School Board, "About Ilryong," accessed October 14, 2015
- ↑ Fairfax County Public Schools, "School Board: Overview," May 14, 2015
- ↑ Virginia State Board of Elections, "Campaign Finance Reports," accessed October 27, 2015
- ↑ Fairfax Democrats, "2015 Elections: Your Candidates," accessed October 9, 2015
- ↑ Fairfax County Federation of Teachers, "2015 FCFT School Board Candidate Endorsements," accessed October 9, 2015
- ↑ The Washington Post, "For Fairfax School Board," October 25, 2015
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
