# Contra Costa County Board of Education, Area 5

Clyde Henry Lewis, Jr. is running uncontested for Contra Costa County Board of Education, Area 5. Full ballot at VoteOrElse.com. On the November 3, 2026 California general election ballot. This person holds the Area 5 seat on the 5-member Contra Costa County Board of Education. It sets policy for the County Superintendent of Schools' office, which runs the county's special-education and alternative-education programs and supports and hears appeals from the county's public school districts. The term is four years.

- Jurisdiction: School District
- Election: November 3, 2026 California general election
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## On the ballot

- **Clyde Henry Lewis, Jr.**

A nonpartisan office: candidates do not run as Democrats or Republicans, and no party appears on the ballot.

Clyde Henry Lewis, Jr. is running unopposed for Contra Costa County's Board of Education, Area 5. The election is November 3, 2026. He would succeed Annette Lewis, who chose not to seek re-election. No other candidate qualified for the ballot.

The winner serves a 4-year term on the county's 5-member Board of Education, one of five geographic areas. The board sets policy for the County Superintendent of Schools' office, which runs the county's special-education and alternative-education programs and hears appeals from the county's public school districts. Area 5 covers Antioch, Bethel Island, Brentwood, Byron, Discovery Bay, Knightsen, Oakley, and parts of Pittsburg.

With no opponent, this is an open-seat transition rather than a contest: sitting trustee Annette Lewis did not file for re-election, and the county's nomination period went into a five-day extension specifically because no incumbent filed -- Lewis was the only candidate to qualify by the extended deadline. He brings a background in K-12 school governance and higher education rather than a direct continuation of the outgoing trustee's record.

## Clyde Henry Lewis, Jr.

Clyde Henry Lewis, Jr. is running unopposed for the Area 5 seat. He would succeed outgoing trustee Annette Lewis. He served one term on the Antioch Unified School District board after his election in 2020. He chose not to seek re-election there in 2024. He now works as an executive coach through his own business. He is also a part-time faculty lecturer at UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business.

**Strengths:** A doctorate and a professional background in executive coaching and higher-education teaching. That is distinct from a career school-board trustee's resume.

**Trade-offs:** Running unopposed means no rival is pressure-testing his record. No campaign website, statement, or California campaign-finance committee was found for this race.

**Keep in mind:** He served one term on the Antioch Unified school board from 2020 to 2024. He chose not to seek re-election there. Retiring Area 5 trustee Annette Lewis has publicly endorsed him as her successor. No family relationship is confirmed.

## Review notes

- Annette Lewis, Trustee, Contra Costa County Board of Education -- Area 5 (Facebook, official trustee page) -- "Support Dr. Clyde Lewis, Jr. for Contra Costa County Board of Education": the sitting Area 5 trustee's own statement that she decided not to seek re-election in 2026 and is asking supporters to back Clyde Lewis, Jr. to succeed her; no family relationship between the two is confirmed or implied -- Facebook blocks a direct fetch, so this is anchored to the search-engine result that surfaced the page's own posts, each independently corroborating the same endorsement over several months may have more bias because it is an advocacy voter guide compared to other formal government and nonprofit journalism sources.

## Sources

1. [Contra Costa County Elections Division -- "Positions Up for Election, November 3, 2026, General Election": the only county-section contest in the document is County Board of Education Areas 2, 4, and 5 (under Schools) -- no Board of Supervisors, row office, or Superior Court seat appears anywhere, consistent with both Supervisor seats up this cycle (Districts 1 and 4) having been decided outright in the June 2026 primary](https://www.contracostavote.gov/wp-content/uploads/26Nov03_PositionsUpForElection.pdf)
2. [Contra Costa County Elections Division -- "Contest/Candidate Proof List" (8-27-26_candidatelist_detail_final.pdf), the county's post-certification ballot-order-proofing export: shows Area 2 as a 3-candidate contest (Sarah Butler, incumbent; Pamela West; Sibyl Minighini) with each candidate's filed ballot designation and qualification date -- this export omits single-filer contests entirely, which is why Areas 4 and 5 do not appear in it (see cc-candidate-summary-2026)](https://www.contracostavote.gov/wp-content/uploads/8-27-26_candidatelist_detail_final.pdf)
3. [Contra Costa County Elections Division -- "Candidate List" (8-14-26_candidatelist_summary_final.pdf), the county's complete qualified-candidate roster including single-filer contests: confirms Area 2 (Sarah Butler, Pamela West, Sibyl Minighini), Area 4 (Mike Maxwell, sole qualified candidate), and Area 5 (Clyde Henry Lewis, Jr., sole qualified candidate)](https://www.contracostavote.gov/wp-content/uploads/8-14-26_candidatelist_summary_final.pdf)
4. [Contra Costa County Elections Division -- "Nomination Period Extended" notice (26Nov03_PositionsUpForElection_In-Extension-1.pdf, revised 8/11/26): lists "Contra Costa County Board of Education, Area 5" among the offices extended to Aug. 12, 2026 because no incumbent filed by the regular Aug. 7 deadline -- Areas 2 and 4 do not appear on this list](https://www.contracostavote.gov/wp-content/uploads/26Nov03_PositionsUpForElection_In-Extension-1.pdf)
5. [Contra Costa County Office of Education -- "County Board of Education" page: names all five sitting trustees by numbered area (Daniel Nathan-Heiss, Area 1; Sarah G. Butler, Area 2, board president; Yazmin Llamas, Area 3; Mike Maxwell, Area 4; Annette Lewis, Area 5) and each area's term-expiration date, independently confirming Areas 2, 4, and 5 expire in 2026 while Areas 1 and 3 expire in 2028](https://www.cccoe.k12.ca.us/About-CCCOE/County-Board-of-Education/index.html)
6. [Contra Costa News -- "November Ballot Taking Shape in Contra Costa County" (Aug. 7, 2026): independent local-news roundup of the county's own candidate filings, listing the same three-candidate Area 2 field, Mike Maxwell alone for Area 4, and Clyde Lewis, Jr. alone for Area 5](https://contracosta.news/2026/08/07/november-ballot-taking-shape-in-contra-costa-county/)
7. [Antioch Herald -- "Departing Antioch School Board Trustees Hack, Lewis bid farewell" (Allen D. Payton, Nov. 16, 2024): Dr. Clyde Henry Lewis, Jr. did not seek re-election to the Antioch Unified School District board (Area 3) after one term, elected in 2020 in his second run for that seat, and continues working as an Executive Coach through his own business, Onessis International, and as a part-time Faculty Lecturer at UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business](https://antiochherald.com/2024/11/departing-antioch-school-board-trustees-hack-lewis-bid-farewell/)
8. [Clarity Elections -- Contra Costa County official results, Nov. 3, 2020 General Election, Antioch Unified School District Area 3: Clyde Lewis Jr. elected with 47.24% (4,348 votes) -- the exact permalink could not be resolved from a search-engine snippet, so this cites the search that surfaced it](https://www.google.com/search?q=%22Clyde+Lewis%22+OR+%22Clyde+Henry+Lewis%22+Contra+Costa+County+Board+of+Education)
9. [Annette Lewis, Trustee, Contra Costa County Board of Education -- Area 5 (Facebook, official trustee page) -- "Support Dr. Clyde Lewis, Jr. for Contra Costa County Board of Education": the sitting Area 5 trustee's own statement that she decided not to seek re-election in 2026 and is asking supporters to back Clyde Lewis, Jr. to succeed her -- read from search-result snippets after the post itself could not be opened directly; no family relationship between the two is confirmed or implied -- Facebook blocks a direct fetch, so this is anchored to the search-engine result that surfaced the page's own posts, each independently corroborating the same endorsement over several months](https://www.google.com/search?q=%22Annette+Lewis%22+%22Clyde+Lewis%22+Contra+Costa+Board+of+Education+facebook)
10. [California Secretary of State CAL-ACCESS -- filer search for "Clyde Lewis": two Antioch school-board committees on file ("LEWIS FOR ANTIOCH SCHOOL BOARD 2020", TERMINATED; "LEWIS FOR ANTIOCH SCHOOL BOARD, 2018", ACTIVE) -- no committee registered under his name for this county board of education race](https://cal-access.sos.ca.gov/Misc/filerSearch.aspx?SEARCH=Clyde%20Lewis)

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