The District 153 school board will hold a special morning meeting on Wednesday, Sept. 4, to officially appoint Christine Scully to a vacant board position following the resignation of Deb Havighorst in July.
children George and Erin Graves. Scully has been appointed
to fill a vacancy on the District 153 school board.
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Scully was one of 16 persons to apply for the position. The board interviewed seven of those applicants Aug. 26 before selecting Scully. She will serve until the school board election in April.
“We were excited to see such strong interest in the open board position,” Superintendent Scott McAlister said. “It shows that people in this community are truly vested in the education that we provide to our students, and everyone whom we interviewed spoke very highly of our schools and their desire to contribute to them in the future.”
Scully and her husband, Al Graves, moved to Homewood in 2017. Their two children are students in the district – George is in 2nd grade at Willow School and Erin is in 5th grade at Churchill School. She has been an active PTA member and was a member of the committee that helped promote the District 153 referendum in 2022. She recently joined Foundation 153.
Scully is a 2001 graduate of Homewood-Flossmoor High School. She received her bachelor’s degree in architecture from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a master’s degree in architecture from the University of Illinois at Chicago. Christine works as a building code consultant specializing in accessibility building codes on multifamily/apartment developments throughout the country.
Editor’s Note: This story was edited Sept. 3 to correct the name of Christine Scully’s husband. He is Al Graves.