A longtime volunteer for the Rogers School District will take on yet another volunteer job after winning a seat on the School Board.
Mitch Lockhart was elected to the board's at-large, Position 6 seat in a runoff election Tuesday. He received 515 votes (60 percent), beating opponent Bob White's 346 votes (40 percent), according to unofficial results.
Lockhart's five-year term takes effect immediately.
All registered voters in the School District were eligible to vote in this election because it was an at-large seat. The district has 45,794 voters. The 861 votes cast represents a turnout of 1.9 percent.
The runoff election was necessary because none of the three candidates in the Sept. 20 election received more than 50 percent of the votes. In that race, Lockhart also finished first with 47 percent of the vote. White got 31 percent and Caley Vo got 22 percent.
Lockhart didn't return a phone message seeking comment late Tuesday.
Lockhart, 48, is a financial adviser and certified financial planner for Wells Fargo Advisors. He graduated from Rogers High School in 1986 and obtained a degree in financial management from the University of Arkansas in 1991.
He's secretary for the Rogers High School Athletic Booster Club and vice president of the Rogers Public Education Foundation board, which raises money for academic programs.
He's coached numerous youth sports teams, served with a band boosters club and worked in district concession stands, he said. He's also been a member of the Rogers Early Risers Rotary club for five years.
Lockhart and his wife, Valerie, have two sons. One is in college and the other is a junior at Rogers High School.
Lockhart replaces Byron Black, who opted not to run for re-election this year after 10 years on the board. He's one of two newcomers to the board along with Nathan Gairhan, who was elected to the at-large, Position 7 seat last month.
White, 62, retired this past summer after 39 years as a teacher, coach and administrator. Twenty-nine of those years were with the Rogers district, the last 13 of which he was principal of Elmwood Middle School.
NW News on 10/12/2016