Wicomico County Board of Education, District 2
Wicomico County · 2026-11-03
One candidate has filed for the District 2 seat: the sitting member, Gene Malone, unopposed.
Board districts follow the county's councilmanic districts, which were redrawn for 2026 — so check which district you are in before you vote.
What this office does
The Board of Education governs Wicomico County Public Schools. It hires and evaluates the superintendent, sets system-wide policy, and adopts the school budget request that goes to the County Executive and County Council — who fund it, but do not run the schools. Members serve four-year terms.
Board seats are non-partisan: candidates appear on the ballot without a party label, and everyone in a councilmanic district votes for that district's seat regardless of their own party registration. There is no primary unless more than two people file, which is why these races do not appear in the June primary results.
Candidates
Listed alphabetically by surname. Each summary is written only from the official record and the candidate's own campaign material — never from what anyone else says about them. Other coverage is listed under each candidate and labelled by what kind of source it is.
Gene Malone Incumbent
Non-partisan
Malone is the sitting District 2 member and is unopposed. He was appointed to the board by the Governor in 2016 and elected to four-year terms in 2018 and 2022. The board chose him as vice president in 2017, vice chairman in 2018 and 2019, and chairman every year from 2020 through 2024.
He is a commercial loan officer at First Shore Federal Savings and Loan, after a career at what is now M&T Bank from 1979 until 2017. A Wicomico High graduate with a business degree from what was then Salisbury State, he is a past president of Habitat for Humanity of Wicomico County's board and has led local soccer and Little League organisations.
This is the board's own biography of a sitting member, not a statement of what they would do in a new term. No campaign material in their own words has been located.
Sources for this race
Official record
2026 Gubernatorial General Election — Wicomico County candidates
Wicomico County Board of Elections
Wicomico County Public Schools — Board of Education