Editor, Gazette-Journal:

I write today to endorse Cindy Saulman for election to the Gloucester County School Board as an at-large member.

I have been a law enforcement officer in Gloucester County for more than three decades. During my entire career, until her retirement in 2022, I had the privilege to work alongside Cindy while serving and protecting the citizens of our community. As an administrator and the elected Sheriff, I watched Cindy work for 25 years with the teachers, students, faculty and parents of our county’s school system while teaching our children about the dangers of drugs and alcohol.

Cindy took her job personally, and she guided our children while working cooperatively with school staff and administrators to learn what each class needed from her. She exhibited the same traits as our agency’s DARE officer that we need from our leaders on the school board—a servant heart, a compassionate and reasonable disposition, and the strength to make decisions to benef...