Erin O'Hara Block

O'Hara Block has served as the Metro Nashville Public Schools Board Member for District 8 since 2022, per the campaign site. She was the founding executive director of the Tennessee Education Research Alliance, a research partnership between the Tennessee Department of Education and Vanderbilt's Peabody College, and previously worked at the Tennessee Higher Education Commission and as an education policy advisor to Governor Phil Bredesen. She holds a master of public policy from Vanderbilt's Peabody College and a bachelor's degree from the University of Virginia.