Supervisors, the County Counsel, the Performance Audit Director, and the Director of the Office of Independent Review. The Board also appoints the County Executive Officer to act as the chief administrative officer of the county and the manager of all agencies and departments not under the sole jurisdiction of an elected county official nor the sole jurisdiction of one of the four aforementioned officers appointed by the Board. , the members of the Orange County Board of Supervisors are: District 1: Andrew Do, Republican (since February 3, 2015) District 2: Vicente Sarmiento, Democrat (since January 2, 2023) District 3: Donald P. Wagner, Republican (since March 27, 2019) District 4: Doug Chaffee, Democrat (since January 7, 2019) District 5: Katrina Foley, Democrat (since March 23, 2021) Department of Education The County Department of Education is wholly separate from the County government and is jointly overseen by the elected County Superintendent of Schools and the five-member Orange County Board of Education, whose trustees are popularly elected from five separate trustee areas. , the six elected officials overseeing the Orange County Department of Education are: Trustee Area 1: Jorge Valdes, Republican Trustee Area 2: Mari Barke, Republican Trustee Area 3: Ken Williams, Republican Trustee Area 4: Tim Shaw, Republican Trustee Area 5: Lisa Sparks, Republican Superintendent of Schools: Al Mijares, Republican Pension scandal On July 12, 2010, it was revealed that former Sheriff Mike Carona received over $215,000 in pension checks in 2009, despite his felony conviction. A 2005 state law denied a public pension to public officials convicted of wrongdoing in office, however, that law only applied to benefits accrued after December 2005. Carona became eligible for his pension at age 50, and is also entitled, by law, to medical and dental benefits. It was noted that the county's retirement system faces a massive shortfall totaling $3.7 billion unfunded liabilities, and Carona was one of approximately 400 retired Orange County public servants who received more than $100,000 in benefits in 2009. Also on the list of those receiving extra-large pension checks is former treasurer-tax collector Robert Citron, whose investments, which were made while consulting psychics and astrologers, led Orange County into bankruptcy in 1994. Citron, a Democrat, funneled billions of public dollars into questionable investments, and at first the returns were high and cities, schools and special districts borrowed millions to join in the investments. But the strategy backfired, and Citron's investment