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|office=District 8 member of the<br>East Baton Rouge Parish School Board
|office=District 8 member of the<br>East Baton Rouge Parish School Board
|term_start=January 1, 2011
|term_start=January 1, 2011
|term_end=Current third term expires on December 31, 2022
|term_end=December 31, 2022
|preceded=Greg Baldwin
|preceded=Greg Baldwin
|succeeded=Katie Kenniston
|birth_date=November 20, 1961
|birth_date=November 20, 1961
|birth_place=Place of birth missing
|birth_place=Place of birth missing
[[Louisiana State University]]}}
[[Louisiana State University]]}}
'''Connie Sue Campbell Bernard''' (born November 20, 1961)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mylife.com/connie-bernard/ccbernard1?valid=true&|title=Connie Bernard|publisher=Mylife.com|accessdate=July 15, 2020}}</ref>is the owner of a public relations firm in [[Baton Rouge]], [[Louisiana]], who is an embattled [[Republican Party|Republican]] member of the East Baton Rouge School Board. In the summer of 2020, she came under fire from [[Political correctness|politically correct]] [[liberal]]s angered at her vacillation about [[Confederate States of America|Confederate]] names on public buildings. First elected in 2010, she faces a potential recall election; her current third term ends on December 31, 2022.
'''Connie Sue Campbell Bernard''' (born November 20, 1961)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mylife.com/connie-bernard/ccbernard1?valid=true&|title=Connie Bernard|publisher=Mylife.com|accessdate=July 15, 2020}}</ref>is the owner of a public relations firm in [[Baton Rouge]], [[Louisiana]], who is an embattled outgoing [[Republican Party|Republican]] member of the East Baton Rouge School Board. In the summer of 2020, she came under fire from [[Political correctness|politically correct]] [[liberal]]s angered at her vacillation about [[Confederate States of America|Confederate]] names on public buildings. First elected in 2010, she faced a potential recall election; her current third term ends on December 31, 2022.
In June 2020, her opponents, mostly [[African-American]] activists and four school board colleagues, demanded that she resign from the board because she had loosely defended the name [[Robert E. Lee]], the former name of Lee High School (since renamed Liberty High School). Bernard first said that the critics of General Lee should study the biography of the total man. Faced by the rebuke, Bernard apologized profusely for defending General Lee, reaffirmed her commitment to the [[civil rights]] agenda, but pointedly refused to yield her seat to which she has been elected three times.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/education/article_0c052cc6-b4d3-11ea-99d8-2330ff375dfa.html|title=Connie Bernard: 'I'll continue to serve' on EBR school board despite calls for my resignation|publisher=''The Baton Rouge Advocate''|date=June 22, 2020|author=Katelyn Umholtz|accessdate=July 17, 2020}}</ref>
In June 2020, her opponents, mostly [[African-American]] activists and four school board colleagues, demanded that she resign from the board because she had loosely defended the name [[Robert E. Lee]], the former name of Lee High School (since renamed Liberty High School). Bernard first said that the critics of General Lee should study the biography of the total man. Faced by the rebuke, Bernard apologized profusely for defending General Lee, reaffirmed her commitment to the [[civil rights]] agenda, but pointedly refused to yield her seat to which she has been elected three times.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/education/article_0c052cc6-b4d3-11ea-99d8-2330ff375dfa.html|title=Connie Bernard: 'I'll continue to serve' on EBR school board despite calls for my resignation|publisher=''The Baton Rouge Advocate''|date=June 22, 2020|author=Katelyn Umholtz|accessdate=July 17, 2020}}</ref>
Bernard won her first term on the board in 2010, when with 3,672 votes (54.1 percent), she defeated three [[Democratic Party|Democrats]], who polled a combined 3,115 votes (45.9 percent).
Bernard won her first term on the board in 2010, when with 3,672 votes (54.1 percent), she defeated three [[Democratic Party|Democrats]], who polled a combined 3,115 votes (45.9 percent).
In 2014, she won a second term when she defeated fellow Republican Christopher Bailey in a runoff election. She polled 6,881 votes (51.6 percent) to Bailey's 6,450 (48.4 percent).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://ballotpedia.org/Connie_Bernard|title=Connie Bernard|publisher=Ballotpedia.org|accessdate=July 15, 2020}}</ref>
In 2014, she won a second term when she defeated fellow Republican Christopher Bailey in a runoff election. She polled 6,881 votes (51.6 percent) to Bailey's 6,450 (48.4 percent).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://ballotpedia.org/Connie_Bernard|title=Connie Bernard|publisher=Ballotpedia.org|accessdate=July 15, 2020}}</ref>
In 2022, she was defeated in the runoff election by the Democrat Katie Kennison. Bernard received 3,530 votes (47 percent) to Kennison's 3,935 (53 percent). Bernard hence trailed Kennison by 405 votes. Kennison's victory returned the partisan makeup of the school board to a Democrat majority for the first time since 2007.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/education/democrats-now-in-majority-on-baton-rouge-school-board/article_318fee2e-7a5e-11ed-8f91-6baa426aa266.html|title=Democrats in majority on Baton Rouge school board for first time since 2007|publisher=''The Baton Rouge Advocate''|date=December 13, 2022|author=Charles Lussier}}</ref>
==References==
==References==