State Board of Education member, District 7 · Republican
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Official-page portrait file photo. Photo: Utah State Board of Education (photographer uncredited) · Copyright retained by rights holder · Wikimedia Commons
Official-page portrait file photo. Photo: Utah State Board of Education (photographer uncredited) · Copyright retained by rights holder · Wikimedia Commons
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Erin Longacre is a candidate for State Board of Education, District 7. The ballot lists Erin Longacre, Republican. The district covers all or part of Salt Lake County.
Erin Longacre is originally from Delaware and attended Villanova University on an athletic scholarship. She played Division I volleyball while completing a communications degree with a sociology minor. She moved to Utah in 2004. Her state board biography presents a background in school and parent involvement as the foundation of her approach to education policy. [1]
Appointment and school involvement
Longacre joined the Utah State Board of Education by appointment in 2025. Her represented communities include Sandy, Draper, Cottonwood Heights and Alta. Her experience in schools includes substitute teaching, serving as a homeroom parent, volunteering with the PTA and helping organize teacher-appreciation events. Her biography describes continued direct involvement in classrooms while raising children who attend different levels of school. [1]
Stated education priorities
Longacre’s official biography emphasizes listening to families, classroom teachers and other educators in her district. She identifies academic improvement and a classical educational foundation as priorities, and describes practical classroom experience as important to policymaking. Those statements outline her approach to representation and constituent input; they are her stated aims for board service. [1]
Longacre serves on Law and Licensing and the Utah Schools for the Deaf and Blind Committee. [2]
Current professional work
Longacre’s 2026 public disclosure lists substitute teaching for Canyons School District and work as a Draper crossing guard. These identified jobs add a current professional record to the classroom and parent-volunteer experience described in her official biography, including work in both instruction and student arrival and departure safety. [3]
From the campaign website
The campaign website says Erin Longacre earned a communications degree with a sociology minor at Villanova on a Division 1 volleyball scholarship and has worked as a substitute teacher and PTA volunteer. [4]
According to the Salt Lake Tribune, Longacre was appointed to the board by Gov. Spencer Cox on Aug. 14, 2025, and is running for the remaining two-year term. [5]
Stated priorities are academics, more voices at the table, teachers, less screen dependence, fiscal responsibility and meaningful assessment. [4]
This is the candidate's own campaign material, condensed by The Utah Ledger and not independently checked. [4]
Profile sources
Profile refreshed October 30, 2026. Candidate statements describe the candidate's own experience or positions; official records and reporting are labeled separately.
