Two new members of the Bulloch County Board of Education, Glennera Martin from District 5 and Jimmy “Jay” Cook Jr. from District 6, will take their seats in January, more than seven months after they were elected. The state’s scheduling of the nonpartisan election with the party primaries, and a federal court’s insistence on an earlier date for those primaries, resulted in the nonpartisan local school board races being decided May 20. On that date Martin outpolled incumbent board member Vernon Littles, and Cook took more votes than incumbent Anshul Jain.