{"campaigns":[{"candidatename":"Melissa Davis Ocean","chatgptsummary":null,"notes":null,"party":"","person":{"biography":"## Current office and 2026 campaign\nMelissa Davis Ocean is an incumbent member of the Public Schools of Robeson County Board of Education, representing District 2 in North Carolina. She was elected in 2022 and filed for re-election in 2026. In July 2025, she was elected Vice Chairman of the Robeson County Board of Education for the 2025-2026 term.\n\nOcean has described her most important role as being \"a voice for those small individuals that adults often overlook, not realizing their futures are at stake and their feelings matter.\"\n\n## Sources\n- [1] [Ocean files for another term on school board \u2013 Robesonian](https://www.robesonian.com/news/336009/ocean-files-for-another-term-on-school-board)\n","firstname":"Melissa","lastname":"Ocean","middlename":"Davis","suffix":null,"token":"12fe46c80cc4a701"},"token":"RYZj31ccAzOhKYYA"}],"choices":null,"description":null,"district":null,"districtgroup":null,"districtgroupname":null,"districtname":null,"job_type":"school_board","o.office":"county_school_board","office":"county_school_board","officedescription":"A school board member serves on the elected body that governs a public school district. The board sets district policy and budget priorities and hires and evaluates the superintendent, while leaving day-to-day management to the administration.","officequalities":"- Policy judgment for a public school district \u2014 setting direction while leaving day-to-day management to the superintendent.\n- Budget literacy for operating and capital budgets, in coordination with the county commission (which appropriates) and the state.\n- Ability to hire, evaluate, and when necessary replace the superintendent \u2014 the board's highest-stakes recurring decision.\n- Constituent relations with parents, teachers, principals, and community members.\n- Willingness to complete the state-required annual training through the Tennessee School Boards Association.","officeterm":4,"officetitle":"County School Board Member","partisan":0,"pgr":"general","quantity":1,"referendum":null,"source":null,"title":"Robeson County Board Of Education District 02"}