Shawn Brann will serve on the Prince William County School Board as a temporary replacement for Brentsville District representative Gil Trenum.
Trenum handpicked Brann and presented his resume, along with to others, to the School Board as a recommended temporary replacement. Trenum was deployed last month to Africa for duty in the U.S. Navy.
From Prince William County Public Schools:
The Prince William County School Board voted unanimously on September 21 to select Bristow resident Shawn L. Brann to fill the seat of Brentsville District School Board Member Gil Trenum on an interim basis while Trenum is deployed on active duty in the U.S. Navy Reserve.
Brann was selected from among four applicants for the post. The newly sworn-in Brann will serve as Acting Member on behalf of Trenum and constituents of the Brentsville District.
A senior technical writer for General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems, Brann has over 21 years’ experience working in the local community, the Department of Defense, and the intelligence community on highly-regarded and dynamic intelligence community-organization contracts. He has seven years’ experience in education, including teaching language arts at Woodbridge High School, where he also served as a teacher on administrative assignment, performing all the duties of a high school assistant principal. He coached high school lacrosse as an assistant coach for varsity and head coach for junior varsity.
Brann has been an active volunteer in the Piney Branch Elementary School community; has served on the Prince William County Public Schools (PWCS) budget committee led by Gil Trenum since 2012; and served on the PWCS Safe Schools Advisory Council for multiple years, including a year as chairman; and on multiple school boundary committees. He is a youth soccer coach for the Virginia Soccer Association and Northern Virginia Soccer Club and has served as committee chair and Chartered Organization Representative of Cub Scouts Pack 1343 at Piney Branch Elementary School.
Brann is a graduate of George Mason University, where he earned bachelor degrees in both English and Speech Communication and a master’s degree in Education, Secondary Education specialty. He also received certification in Mason’s Educational Leadership Licensure Program for administrative licensure.
Prior to Trenum’s deployment, local GOP leaders urged the School Board to choose one of Trenum’s handpicked replacements. Democrats on the School Board solicited an unofficial opinion from Virginia’s Attorney General’s Office that stated the Board must appoint someone to serve on a temporary basis, but that person may be anyone, not necessarily someone selected by Trenum.
Trenum is expected to get back his seat upon his return from active duty.
