Board Of Education
The Painesville City Local Schools Board is a policy-making body that functions according to mandates of state law. It represents the State of Ohio and the citizens of Painesville on all matters and decisions dealing with public education. The Board is nonpartisan and nonsectarian as it speaks and acts for the community. Moreover, it acts as a committee-of-the-whole on matters requiring official decisions. No Board member has independent authority to speak for the Board.
The following citizens make up the Painesville City Board of Education:
The following citizens make up the Painesville City Board of Education:
Committees:
Finance & Operations
Ms. Kathleen Powers-Dolney serves as President of the Board of Education. Ms. Powers-Dolney is no stranger to the district, having retired from Painesville City Local Schools in 2008 after twenty-three years as a guidance counselor and an English teacher at Harvey High School.
Ms. Powers Dolney was born and raised in Painesville. She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Secondary Education from Ursuline College and a Master of Education degree in Counseling and Personnel Services in Education from Kent State University. She is a member of St. Mary Church in Painesville, where she serves as a communion minister and is the proud mother of one daughter.
Dorothy "Drez" Jennings
Vice President
Committees:
Policy
Finance & Operations
Drez Jennings has lived in Lake County since 1986 and in Painesville since 1993. She and her husband Mark Wainwright are proud parents of Painesville City School District alumni John Wainwright and Connie Wainwright.
Jennings is currently a managing editor in the Cleveland Clinic Health Library. Previously, she was a communications manager at KeyBank and Squire Patton Boggs. She is a member of the Lake County Free Clinic board, United Way Women United, and a supporter of the Downtown Painesville Organization and the Harvey High School Athletic Booster Club.
Frances WebbMember
Committees:
Student Learning & Achievement
Community Outreach
Frances Webb M.D. was born in Painesville and is a proud alumni of Harvey High School. She earned her Bachelor of Science degree from Ohio Dominican College and her Doctorate of Medicine from Wright State University School of Medicine.
Dr. Webb retired from private practice as an Obstetrician/Gynecologist of over 30 years to return home to Painesville. She is a member of Union Pentecostal Church, Unity of Love Christian Women's Fellowship and on the Executive Board of the Lake County branch of the NAACP.