The board of trustees, and the election of November 3, 2026

SEVEN TRUSTEES ON TOWNSHIP SEATS · THE 2026 RESULTS AS OF NOVEMBER 11, 2026

The corporation is governed by seven trustees elected from township residence seats across a three-county territory — the corporation holds Walkerton and North Liberty in St. Joseph County and territory in Marshall County, and its Lincoln Township seat is voted on ballots headed for Lincoln Townships in LaPorte, Marshall, and St. Joseph Counties alike. The board that sat on September 15, 2026, was Christine Carson, Jared Egger, Kathy Jaworski, Ryan Knowlton, Todd McGaughey, and Carissa Smith, with Christian Mattix absent — seven trustees, the full body. (A course marker behind them: Bob Borlik sat through November 2024 and is gone from the minutes by 2025, Jaworski in his place.) Three seats fell due on November 3, 2026. For the Lincoln Township seat — Walkerton's own — Carissa Smith defeated Dennis Metz Jr., 1,602 votes (59.6 percent) to 1,084 (40.4 percent), and takes the seat with the new board year. For the Liberty Township seat, Christine Carson was unopposed; for the Polk Township seat, Todd McGaughey was unopposed. The Liberty and Polk winners are printed as what they are: incumbents continuing into the term that begins January 1, 2027. The Lincoln Township result prints as a turnover: Smith takes the seat with the new board year, and the incumbent she succeeds is not named in any return this build reached. The full seat map of the seven — which townships hold the remaining seats — was not settled in the record reached and rides in the closing roll with the corporation's own organizational records as its settler.

Sources:

1. John Glenn School Corporation board minutes (September 15, 2026): the seven trustees named, Mattix absent; (2024–2025 minutes): the Borlik-to-Jaworski change.
2. WNDU election results (November 3, 2026): John Glenn School Board, Lincoln Township — Smith 1,602 (59.6%), Metz 1,084 (40.4%).
3. South Bend Tribune (October 30, 2026): the November ballot — Carson unopposed for the Liberty Township seat, McGaughey unopposed for the Polk Township seat.
4. Indiana Election Division candidate list for November 3, 2026, as republished: the Lincoln Township school board race headed "(LaPorte, Marshall, St. Joseph)."
5. U.S. Census Bureau, school district reference map for the corporation: the Marshall County territory.