About Jessica Speiser

Jessica Speiser was elected to the Santa Clara County Board of Education in 2024.  Prior to joining the SCCBOE, she served on the Los Altos School Board of Trustees for 8 years, serving as Board President in 2019 and 2023.  Jessica has also been involved in the leadership of the Santa Clara County School Boards Association, serving as its President in 2023/24.    

Jessica is a dedicated proponent of public schools. She attributes her professional and personal successes (having graduated with a BA from Wellesley College and a JD from UC Law SF) to the strong public school education she received and to the teachers and staff that made that happen.  Jessica grew up in difficult circumstances (low income, alcoholic and drug addicted mother, and abusive household) on Cape Cod, MA.  Jessica has seen first hand in her own life experiences the transformative effect a great public education can have on the life of a child and has made it her life's work to give back to public education to that end, first in Los Altos School District, and now to a larger degree in Santa Clara County.