Clovis Unified elects a new board president. She says she’ll ‘be a listener’
The Clovis Unified Board elected a new president to lead the rapidly growing district serving 43,000 students.
Tiffany Stoker Madsen assumed the role of board president Friday at Clovis Unified’s annual organizational meeting.
“I will do my best to be a listener,” Madsen said at the board meeting.
Madsen said it’s a privilege to serve on a cohesive and unified board. She recalled her experience attending the California School Board Association events with her colleagues on the board.
“The four of us were there. There were comments about us eating lunch together and having dinner together, that this is not what boards do, because they don’t like each other,” Madsen said. “So I’m very grateful to serve on a board where we like each other and we enjoy lunch together.”
The seven-member governing board votes to elect one of the board members as the leader for one year. Madsen succeeded Yolanda Moore, Clovis Unified’s first African American board president since the district formed in 1960.
“Tiffany, I think you deserve an intentional full year of serving as president,” Moore said. “You’re an incredible board member. You ask good questions, hard questions. You care, and so I think we would be honored to have you as our president next year.”
Madsen joined the board in 2018 and was re-elected in 2022. She served a partial term as the president in 2022 when then-president, Susan Hatmaker, resigned in February after moving out of the district. Madsen’s current term will expire in fall 2026.
Graduating as Valedictorian from Clovis West High School, Madsen said the district prepared her to succeed in college, graduate school, and life. In 1995, she presented the community as Miss Clovis and Miss California.
Madsen holds degrees from Brigham Young University and U.C. Hastings College of Law in San Francisco. She practiced labor and employment law before staying home to raise her five children.
Currently, Madsen runs her own music studio and teaches music to young kids. She also volunteers in her children’s classrooms and at school site advisory councils.
The governing board also elected Hugh Awtrey as vice president and Wilma Tom Hashimoto as the board’s clerk.
