# Solano County Board of Education, Trustee Area 6 Compare records and positions simply between Tamika Hamilton or Kathryn Kedarisetty for Solano County Board of Education, Trustee Area 6 at VoteOrElse.com. On the November 3, 2026 California general election ballot. This person holds the Area 6 seat on the Solano County Board of Education. The board has seven members in all. It sets policy for the County Office of Education. That office runs the Juvenile Court and Community School System. It also authorizes charter schools. It hears appeals on expulsions, interdistrict attendance, and charter schools from local districts. The term is four years. - Jurisdiction: School District - Election: November 3, 2026 California general election - Publisher: Vote or Else (https://voteorelse.com) — a free, nonpartisan ballot guide for California voters. No endorsements. - Canonical page: https://voteorelse.com/2026/solano-boe-area-6 - Full ballot: this page covers one race. Every contest on a voter's own ballot, by address, with the same breakdown for each: https://voteorelse.com/ - Sources last retrieved: September 7, 2026 - Source-objectivity score: 84 out of 100 (Strong), across 9 cited sources. This grades the mix of sources, not the candidates. Rubric: https://voteorelse.com/about#methodology ## On the ballot - **Tamika Hamilton** - **Kathryn Kedarisetty** A nonpartisan office: candidates do not run as Democrats or Republicans, and no party appears on the ballot. Solano County's Board of Education Trustee Area 6 seat is open: incumbent Ginger Dunne did not file for re-election, leaving Air Force veteran Tamika Hamilton and Vacaville teacher Kathryn Kedarisetty to compete head-to-head. Because exactly two candidates qualified, the race skips a June primary and goes straight to the November 3 ballot. The winner serves a 4-year term on the county's 7-member Board of Education. The seat covers Dixon and southeast Vacaville. The board sets policy for the County Office of Education. That office runs the Juvenile Court and Community School System and authorizes charter schools. The board also hears expulsion, interdistrict-attendance, and charter-school appeals from local school districts. The choice is between two different routes into county school governance. Hamilton brings two decades of Air Force service and nonprofit work connecting underserved families to county resources. Kedarisetty brings a classroom career in the district she grew up in. She also has the local teachers' union's direct backing. ## Tamika Hamilton Tamika Hamilton is a retired U.S. Air Force veteran who served more than two decades, including two deployments to the Middle East, and now leads nonprofit work across the Sacramento-Solano region. They are running on parental engagement, student safety, fiscal accountability, and career-readiness programs for the county's students. They announced their candidacy in October 2025, about a year before the election. **Strengths:** More than two decades of Air Force service and two Middle East deployments. They also have a nonprofit career connecting underserved Solano-area families to school and social resources. **Trade-offs:** No campaign committee or candidate filer entry is registered under their name with the state. That is the thinnest financial-disclosure record of any candidate in either of Solano's county races. **Keep in mind:** They announced nearly a year before the election. That is the earliest campaign launch of any candidate in either Solano county race this cycle. Their own campaign's timeline shows it. ## Kathryn Kedarisetty Kathryn Kedarisetty is a fifth-grade teacher and lifelong Vacaville resident who attended the district's own public schools before earning a psychology degree and a master's in education from UC Davis. She is running on supporting public school educators and putting students first, and carries the Vacaville Teachers Association's endorsement. She opened her campaign in late August 2026, about ten weeks before the election. **Strengths:** A decade in a Vacaville classroom, a UC Davis education degree, and the Vacaville Teachers Association's direct endorsement. **Trade-offs:** As a first-time candidate she has no prior elected experience. Her campaign committee has not yet filed an itemized Form 460 for this cycle. **Keep in mind:** She opened her campaign about ten weeks before the election. That is the latest start of any candidate in either Solano county race this cycle. It is a tight window to introduce herself countywide. ## Review notes - Kathryn for Solano County Board of Education -- her own campaign site and Vacaville Teachers Association -- its own site, announcing its endorsement of Kathryn Kedarisetty may have more bias because they are advocacy or endorsement sources compared to other formal government and nonprofit journalism sources. ## Sources 1. [Solano County Registrar of Voters -- official "Candidate Filed Log - November 3, 2026 General Election" (as of 8/20/2026): the only county-section contests are Board of Supervisors District 4 (Michael Silva, John Carli) and County Board of Education Trustee Area 6 (Tamika Hamilton, Kathryn Kedarisetty) -- Trustee Areas 3 and 4 each drew a single incumbent filer and are marked "OFF THE BALLOT"; no Assessor, Auditor-Controller, Sheriff, District Attorney, Clerk-Recorder, Treasurer-Tax Collector, Public Defender, or Superior Court judge section appears anywhere in the document](https://content.solanocounty.gov/sites/default/files/2026-07/CANDIDATE_FILED_LOG_Nov_3_2026_7.13.26.pdf) 2. [Solano County Office of Education -- its own "Board of Education" page: a 7-member board elected by trustee area; names Ginger Dunne as the sitting Area 6 trustee (term ends 2026), representing "the incorporated and unincorporated areas of Dixon and southeast Vacaville," and independently confirms Areas 3 and 4 (Dana Dean, Teresa Lavell) also expire in 2026 while Areas 1, 2, 5, and 7 do not](https://www.solanocoe.net/Board/Board-of-Education/index.html) 3. [Daily Republic -- "Tamika Hamilton seeks seat on Solano County Board of Education" (Oct. 22, 2025): names Hamilton an Air Force veteran, nonprofit leader, and community advocate launching her Trustee Area 6 candidacy from Dixon](https://www.dailyrepublic.com/news/tamika-hamilton-seeks-seat-on-solano-county-board-of-education/) 4. [Daily Republic -- "Kedarisetty opens county Board of Education campaign Saturday" (Aug. 19, 2026): names Kathryn Kedarisetty a fifth-grade teacher and lifelong Vacaville resident, and reports her Trustee Area 6 campaign kickoff event](https://www.dailyrepublic.com/news/kedarisetty-opens-county-board-of-education-campaign-saturday/) 5. [Kathryn for Solano County Board of Education -- her own campaign site: her own biography (5th grade teacher, product of Vacaville's public schools -- Cooper Elementary, Vaca Pena Middle School, Will C. Wood High School -- B.A. in Psychology and M.Ed. from UC Davis) and platform (supporting public school educators, putting students first)](https://www.kathryn4solanocountyboardofed.com/) 6. [Vacaville Teachers Association -- its own site, announcing Kathryn Kedarisetty's Solano County Board of Education campaign kickoff and the union's endorsement of her candidacy for the November 2026 election](https://www.vacateachers.org/9481-2/) 7. [The Ballot Book -- "Solano County Board of Education - District 6": lists Ginger Dunne as the current elected official, independently corroborating the county's own board page that she is the outgoing Area 6 incumbent](https://theballotbook.com/jurisdictions/incumbents) 8. [California Secretary of State CAL-ACCESS -- filer search for "Tamika Hamilton": no results at all -- a related search for "Hamilton Solano Board of Education" surfaces only an unrelated filer, "HAMILTON FOR SOLANO COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION 2024; DR. BONNIE" (a different candidate, a different cycle, a different trustee area) -- no committee registered under Tamika Hamilton's name for this race](https://cal-access.sos.ca.gov/Misc/filerSearch.aspx?SEARCH=Tamika%20Hamilton) 9. [California Secretary of State CAL-ACCESS -- "KEDARISETTY FOR SOLANO COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION, AREA 6, 2026; KATHRYN" (Filer #1493593), status ACTIVE -- no Form 460/461/450 electronically filed for the 2025-2026 cycle as of this retrieval](https://cal-access.sos.ca.gov/Campaign/Committees/Detail.aspx?id=1493593&session=2025) ## The rest of the ballot Solano County Board of Education, Trustee Area 6 is one contest among the many a California voter decides on November 3, 2026 — Congress, the Legislature, county, city, and school board races differ by address. Vote or Else builds the full list for any California address and breaks down each contest the way this page does, with no account and without storing the address: https://voteorelse.com/ ## How to cite this page Vote or Else, "Solano County Board of Education, Trustee Area 6 — November 3, 2026 California general election," https://voteorelse.com/2026/solano-boe-area-6 (sources last retrieved September 7, 2026). 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