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2 candidates are tracked for Member School Board, Arlington County on the November 3, 2026 ballot: James Vell Rives IV and Bethany Zecher Sutton. Candidate information follows official Arlington County election filings; verify with the official election office linked below.
2 certified candidates for Member School Board, Arlington County on the November 3, 2026 ballot, per the Virginia Department of Elections' certified local candidate list (updated September 3, 2026). Virginia local offices are nonpartisan on the ballot unless a candidate was nominated by a party; the number of seats filled and the district lines come from the locality's own ballot.
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Rives, who holds a doctoral degree, is a candidate for Arlington School Board endorsed by the Forward Party in Virginia, per his campaign site.
Source: candidate campaign site.
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Sutton is a leadership and career coach with more than 25 years of experience in higher education, per ARLnow, which reports she chairs the Arlington School Board and is seeking a second term.
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