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School board selects member
By David Goodwin
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Eclectic resident Joey Holley was nominated and approved Monday night to replace Johnny Carothers for the District 7 seat on the Elmore County Board of Education.
Flanked by his wife Tracy and daughter Patty, a seventh-grade student at Eclectic Middle School, Holley took the oath of office from Probate Judge Jimmy Stubbs.
“We were totally impressed by the quantity and quality of the people who were interested in filling this position,” school board Chairman Larry Teel said before nominations were opened. “It speaks highly of that district and the people’s concern for their children and schools. We’re just delighted at that level of interest.”
District 7 primarily encompasses the Eclectic school community, including Elmore County High School and Eclectic middle and elementary schools.
Holley said Eclectic-area principals Paula Flowers and Jim Adams ” with whom he had long-standing friendships ” approached him as “someone who had the commitment and familiarity with the school to make sure (District 7) was well-represented.”
Holley graduated from ECHS in the same class as Eclectic Elementary Principal Flowers in 1974. At Auburn University, he was ECHS Principal Adams’s college roommate. His brothers, Patrick and Ron Holley, also went to high school at ECHS.
“A lot of my friends and family went through school in Eclectic,” Holley said. “This was an opportunity for me to pay the system back for the education I got for myself, and I hope it can give my daughter the same or better.”
Holley said he was “surprised to see there were so many well-qualified people” who sought the job representing the Eclectic area on the school board.
Holley and Brenda Moseley were both nominated to the posi-
