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"John Glenn has always been a board of seven" — through a reapportionment that gave each township one seat — and its three 2026 races returned one contested result this record can print and two uncontested seats it cannot total. The superintendent's own statement, in the South Bend Tribune's account of the district's strangest election problem, fixes the size: "John Glenn has always been a board of seven." Before 2024 the plan ran "two board members from Polk, Lincoln and Liberty townships and one board member representing Johnson Township." Then the map changed: Greene Township was annexed into the corporation in January 2024, after the South Bend corporation closed its Greene Township school and approved the township's departure in December 2022, and the State Board of Education approved the corporation's amended governing plan on 14 August 2024 — "one board member represent each township" of Polk, Lincoln, Johnson, Liberty, and Greene, "adding a north at-large representative and a south at-large representative," the north at-large member residing in Greene or Liberty, the south at-large in Polk, Lincoln, or Johnson. All five townships' voters vote on every seat. Kathy Jaworski was appointed 11 February 2025 to represent Greene Township, her term expiring 2028 — the minutes spell her name Jaworski; the Tribune's fetched text spells it "Jawarski" once, and the variance prints. The members as carried in minutes of 15 September 2026, the same seven names as in July 2025 and August 2026: Christine Carson, Jared Egger, Kathy Jaworski, Ryan Knowlton, Todd McGaughey, Carissa Smith, and Christian Mattix. Which of the seven holds the Greene, Johnson, and two at-large seats under the new plan was not reached in an official carrier — pre-change sources carry the old plan's labels and conflict with it — and a complete official member-to-seat mapping banks as a named gap (G-SC-10's companion in this article's register entry), its settler the corporation's filed governing plan and board page. The 2026 election put three seats up — Lincoln, Liberty, and Polk townships. The contested race reached a printable result: for the Lincoln Township seat, incumbent Carissa Smith defeated Dennis Leon Metz Jr., 1,602 votes (59.6%) to 1,084 (40.4%) — the result the Walkerton build's record also carries, this township's voters having voted in it, and printed here as those voters' own race. Smith takes the seat with the new board year; the transition prints as a transition, as this build's discipline requires, because the board she joins in the new year is not the board of the minutes above. The Liberty Township seat — this town's own — stood uncontested: incumbent Christine L. Carson, sole candidate, her candidacy confirmed at read strength in July 2026. The Polk seat likewise: Todd McGaughey, sole candidate. No vote totals for either uncontested race were carried in any results source read — the results pages reached carried contested races only — and Carson's certified total banks as a named gap (G-SC-9), its settler the St. Joseph County Clerk's certified election summary for the 3 November 2026 general election, with the Marshall County Clerk's summary for any corporation precincts reporting there. One more listing conflict prints whole: the Tribune's July 2026 candidate list carries no party affiliation for the corporation's candidates, while its October list carries McGaughey as Republican and Carson as "Did not declare" — 2026 being the first cycle under the state law making school-board races partisan in effect; both listings print, neither suppressed. Joseph County Area Plan Commission documents carry a "Christopher Winchell" as that commission's Public Schools Representative. No record read settles whether the township-board candidate is the corporation's superintendent; the name match and the commission seat are reported as carried, identity neither asserted nor denied (G-SC-15), its settler the candidate's filed declaration of candidacy.