Montana City-based candidate Jenny Genger has been elected to the Jefferson High School Board of Trustees, defeating Travis Pierce, a Jefferson City resident who had previously served on the board.
Genger received 869 votes; Pierce received 575 votes. The school’s business manager, Lorie Carey, announced the unofficial results of the election in an email at 10:29 p.m. on May 3, the day of the election. Genger will be seated at the board’s upcoming May 17 meeting.
Genger and Pierce were running to fill an at-large trustee position currently held by Kyrie Russ, of Clancy, who did not seek reelection. Lindsey Graham, of Basin, ran unopposed to replace Bryher Herak as Basin’s trustee on the board, after Herak did not run for reelection. Graham will also be seated as a trustee May 17.
Trustees serve three-year terms.
Genger, originally from Boulder, Colorado, has lived in Montana City for “about 15 years” and lived in East Helena before that. Genger attended University of Montana in Missoula, where she met her husband, Noah, who is currently an Army aviator flying Chinook helicopters. After 15 years as a stay-at-home mom and frequent volunteer—and through her husband’s two deployments—she started her “first real job since college” two years ago, Genger previously told The Monitor, serving as a community outreach coordinator for the Options Clinic in Helena.
Genger said she wants Jefferson to be the “one clear choice” for north-county families, and that “we could really be a consideration for people who are coming out of our feeder schools.”
