Alum David Wheeler is President of Yuba Community College District

WOODLAND DAILY DEMOCRAT -- David Wheeler ran unopposed, and is president of the Yuba Community College District. He represents Area 3, which includes a portion of Sutter County including Nuestro, Franklin, Brittan, Meridian and Winship Elementary School District and Live Oak and Yuba City unified school districts. Wheeler is a retired Yuba College theatre professor who earned his associate in arts degree at Yuba College and his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from San Francisco State University. He has been on staff at the American Conservatory Theatre, San Francisco Opera, Berkeley Repertory Theatre and London Drama Studio. Wheeler taught in the Yuba College Theatre Department from 1976 to 2010. During his tenure he received numerous awards including the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Award for Excellence in Education. He was first elected to the Yuba College district board in 2010; this term will conclude in December 2018.