Chair and Vice Chair elected for 2021-2022 term

Limestone Learning Foundation
Chair and Vice Chair elected for 2021-2022 term
Posted on 12/06/2021
Image of Chair and Vice ChairTrustee Suzanne Ruttan was acclaimed as Chair for the 2021-2022 term at the Annual Meeting of the Board on December 1, 2021. Trustee Tom Gingrich was re-elected as Vice Chair.

Trustees Gingrich and Robin Hutcheon were nominated for the Vice Chair position. Vote for the positions was by secret ballot. Trustees elect a Chair and Vice-Chair each year of their four-year mandate.

This will be Chair Ruttan’s fourth term as Chair. She was first elected to the Limestone District School Board in October 2010 as the representative for the Township of South Frontenac. She served as Vice Chair of the Board for the 2017-2018 school year and Chair for the 2018-2019, 2019-2020, and 2020-2021 school years.


Vice Chair Gingrich, who represents the Kingscourt-Rideau & King’s Town districts, was first elected in 2018. He served as Vice Chair of the Board for the 2020-2021 school year, and has served as the Trustee representative of The Food Sharing Project Board of Directors and has served as the alternate Limestone representative on the Ontario Public School Boards’ Association. In this role, Vice Chair Gingrich will chair the Education Policy and Operations Committee.

Trustees also selected their committee roles for the 2022 year on December 6, 2021. Trustees must serve on at least one committee in addition to the Committee of the Whole Board and Education Policy and Operations Committee.

Audit Committee (4-year term):
Trustee Laurie French (Chair)
Trustee Garrett Elliott

Awards Committee:
Trustee Garrett Elliott
Trustee  Tom Gingrich
Trustee Karen McGregor
Trustee Joy Morning (Alternate)

Special Education Advisory Committee (4-year term):
Trustee Bob Godkin
Trustee Karen McGregor
Trustee Judith Brown (Alternate)

Environmental Sustainability Advisory Committee:
Trustee Robin Hutcheon
Trustee Joy Morning

Parent Involvement Committee:
Trustee Judith Brown
Trustee Bob Godkin (Alternate)


Special Committees -
Supervised Alternative Learning:
Trustee Joy Morning
Trustee Suzanne Ruttan (Alternate)

Expulsion Hearing Committee/Disciplinary Hearing Committee Pool:
Trustee Judith Brown
Trustee Garrett Elliott
Trustee Bob Godkin
Trustee Karen McGregor (Alternate)
Trustee Suzanne Ruttan (Alternate)

Food Sharing Project:
Trustee Tom Gingrich
Trustee Laurie French (Alternate)


The Limestone District School Board is situated on traditional territories of the Anishinaabe & Haudenosaunee.