IIleana Garza-Rojas Out candidate Ileana Garza-Rojas placed first among 5 candidates for a seat on CFBISD board DAVID TAFFET | Senior Staff Writertaffet@dallasvoice.com Ileana Garza-Rojas was elected to the Carrollton-Farmers Branch ISD school board earlier this month when she placed first among the five candidates running.
Voters were tasked with selecting three out of five people running, and Garza-Rojas brought in the most votes of any of the five.
Her victory makes her the first openly-LGBTQ person elected to the CFBISD board. Garza-Rojas grew up in Garland. She is a first generation American who learned English when she attended public school.
She and her wife, a NICU nurse, have lived in Farmers Branch for more than a decade, and they have two children — 4 and 7 years old.