Board of Trustees
A Message from the Governing Board
Your Board of Education seeks to maintain a school system that is academically sound, intellectually stimulating and fiscally responsible. We realize that change is needed to meet new demands if today’s children are to be prepared to meet their future responsibilities as community leaders. This kind of preparation does not occur accidentally; education is not a haphazard process. It takes planning, follow-through and evaluation, steps in which we are constantly involved. But it also takes support, and we believe that an informed public is a supportive public. Children remain our most precious resource and if they are to meet successfully the challenges placed before them, they will need both knowledge and many skills. They will also need confidence, strong basic values, a realistic sense of individual worth and a belief in personal responsibility. As adults, our task is to prepare them, providing in the home, in the school, and in the community a strong foundation on which they can build. We can help by guiding them, listening to them, encouraging them, believing in them-and expecting much of them.
Meet the Rancho Santa Fe School Board of Trustees! We would love to hear from you and have provided our emails below.
The Board of Trustees is a group of five elected school district residents. They are volunteers who serve for a term of four years. School Board elections are held every two years with two seats open in the first, and three seats open in the subsequent election. Here are the current members:
Jee Manghani – President– Email Jee
Jee was first elected to the Board in November, 2018, and re-elected in 2022 for another 4-year term. He is a San Diego native and attended UCSD, attaining a degree in Computer Science. He currently runs a software consulting business and is the President of a Value Investment Partnership. He and his family moved to Rancho Santa Fe in 2010, primarily so that their children could attend the best School District in San Diego County. He has two children, both attending R. Roger Rowe.
Kerry Vinci - Vice President - Email Kerry
Kerry Vinci, a San Diego native, has been a valued member of the Rancho Santa Fe community since 1982 and has operated as a local General Engineering Contractor since 1986. He and his wife, Tiffany, have two children, both of whom attended R. Roger Rowe School from kindergarten. Mr. Vinci also served on the Rancho Santa Fe Education Foundation for six years, contributing to the organization's mission and initiatives.
Kate Butler - Clerk - Email Kate
Kate Butler was elected to the Board in 2024 for a 4-year term. Kate was born and raised in San Diego County, where she attended public schools, including Torrey Pines H.S. She has a B.A. from UCLA and a Ph.D. in Art History from Columbia University. She has worked as a museum curator and university professor at Washington University in St. Louis and at the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia, and she is currently a private curator and art advisor. Kate and her husband, Tom, live in Rancho Santa Fe with their two children, who attend R. Roger Rowe School.
Paul Seitz - Member - Email Paul
Paul Seitz was elected to the Board in 2022 for a 4-year term. He and his wife, Sally, moved to Rancho Santa Fe over seven years ago, and their daughter started kindergarten at Roger Rowe in 2017. Paul served in the United States Marine Corps from 1996-2004 and was appointed to the rank of Sergeant, leading hundreds of young men around the world. He is now the proud owner of Osuna Valley Stock Farm in the Covenant, a home for all levels of horsemanship and preserver of Rancho Santa Fe’s equestrian traditions.
Annette Ross – Member - Email Annette
Annette Ross was elected to the Board in 2020 for a 4-year term. Annette, her husband, Bill, and their five daughters moved into the Ranch four years ago. She previously worked full time as a professional for Morgan Stanley at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. After that, she served as a Refco Currency Trader in Bermuda.