Monson Defeats Humphreys 57-43%

Former State Senator Angela Monson won the chairmanship of the Oklahoma City Board of Education with 6,387 votes to 4,840 votes for former Oklahoma City Mayor Kirk Humphreys. She earned 56.9 percent of the vote.

Humphreys, 58, took the chairman's seat in August after Cliff Hudson, Sonic CEO, resigned.

Monson, 53, is associate provost for community partnerships and health policy at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center. She first was elected to the House of Representatives in 1990 and left the Senate in 2005 under term limits. She served as president of the National Conference of State Legislatures.

Humphreys resigned as mayor of Oklahoma City to run for the U. S. Senate in 2004. He lost in the Republican primary.

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