TSTA House of Delegates Elections
NEA Director Election: Nominations are open for NEA Director for Texas, Place 1. The successful candidate for NEA Director for Texas, Place 1 will serve a three-year term on the NEA Board of Directors beginning September 1, 2025, and will sit as a voting member of the TSTA Board of Directors for a three-year term beginning July 15, 2025. Follow this link for the filing form for the NEA Director election, https://tsta.wufoo.com/forms/candidate-for-nea-director-filing-form/
The following candidates have filed for NEA Director for Texas, Place 1:
Angela Garcia, Pasadena Educators Association
Dale Kaiser, Duncanville Education Association
Franchesca Mejia, Hutto Educators Association
Lakeisha Patterson, Deer Park Education Association
The filing deadline has passed.
Lakeisha Patterson was elected by the 2025 House of Delegates.
TSTA At-Large Board of Directors: TSTA At-Large Board of Directors: Individuals elected will serve from July 15, 2025, through July 14, 2028. The deadline for receipt of the nomination form is March 12, 2025. The filing form is located here: https://tsta.wufoo.com/forms/tsta-board-of-directors-atlarge-nomination-form/.
The following candidates have filed timely for ESP At-Large:
Sylvia Ortega, PSJA/TSTA/NEA
Yvonne Ortega, Ysleta Teachers Association
Trasell Underwood, Education Austin
This filing deadline has passed.
The number of candidates who filed were equal to the number of positions that needed to be filled, and all completed the required filing submission. As a result, they were declared elected by acclamation during the 2025 House of Delegates.
Cluster Delegates
TSTA members who have no opportunity to join a local association or who belong to a local that is not eligible to elect a delegate are still eligible to seek election as a delegate to the TSTA House of Delegates through a cluster election. The deadline by which a member must notify the TSTA Center for Executive and Governance of his or her interest in seeking election as a cluster delegate is January 28, 2025. https://tsta.wufoo.com/forms/hod-cluster-election-request-form/
Local Delegate Elections for the Regional HoD
Regional Houses of Delegates are held on the date established by each Region. Please contact your Regional President for more information about dates, times, and locations.
The President of your Local Association must submit the results of your local delegate elections to your Regional President (by the deadline established by the Regional President) on the TSTA Regional HoD Election Forms. These include:
• Regional HoD Delegates
• Regional HoD Alternates
• Multiple entries form (for additional delegates/alternates page 2 to end)
State HoD Delegate Election Report Forms
Local Delegate Election Reports must be received at TSTA HQ by March 15. A confirmation receipt will be issued for all submissions. Any submission that arrives after March 15 must be accompanied by a letter from the local president to explain why it is late. Any submission presented after April 1st automatically goes to credentials. As always, the Center for Executive and Governance will look up membership information for each delegate and work with the local president to make sure that the local’s delegate election report is complete and complies with TSTA Election policies.
Please email all forms to elections@tsta.org
Local Delegate Election reports may be submitted as noted below:
If your local has 15 or fewer delegates and elected 15 or fewer alternates, you may submit their information using the e-form links below. The first link includes certification and delegate information. The second link, alternate information. To enter delegate or alternate information on the e-forms, you only need to enter their name and one piece of identifying information — either their membership ID or the first line of their street address. You can also upload the tally in the e-forms. If your local has more than 15 delegates and/or elected more than 15 alternates, you may submit their information using this excel spreadsheet. If you use the spreadsheet, in addition to listing names, there is a tab for certification information so you can certify in the same document. We have also added a counts column so you can use the delegate listing as a tally sheet if desired, but you are not required to fill this part out and are welcome to send us the tally in whatever manner is convenient to you.
Delegate Report Form link
Alternate Report Form link
General Information
For more information on election procedures and requirements, please review TSTA Board Policy EP-8 (Election of Local Delegates to the State House of Delegates) and TSTA Board Policy EP-13 (Election of Local Delegates to the Regional House of Delegates).
If you have questions, please contact the Center for Executive and Governance at 877-ASK-TSTA.
