

Sue Zwahlen
Sue Zwahlen was elected Mayor of Modesto in February 2021. She is a former two-term member of the Modesto City Schools Board, who was first elected in 2009, re-elected in 2013, and served two terms as president of the Board. As a mother of six children who attended local public schools, Mayor Sue Zwahlen spent many years volunteering in the classroom. During her tenure on the school board, the district’s graduation rates increased from 75% to 87.6%, and suspension r