Write-in Candidate Launches School Board Campaign

Joy Maloney today threw her hat in the ring as a write-in candidate for the Broad Run seat on the Loudoun School Board. She now gives competition to Kevin Kuesters, who will be the only candidate for that seat with a name on the ballot.

Maloney, a 40-year-old software developer for a government contractor, worked for five years as a high school math teacher before going into IT. She said in a press release that residents persuaded her to enter the race after Kuesters was arrested for simple assault.

“It had already bothered me that my opponent sent all three of his children to private school,” Maloney said. “After he was arrested, several Broad Run residents encouraged me to commit to serving our community as it deserves.”

Maloney, a Broadlands resident, has a daughter in sixth grade at Eagle Ridge Middle School. Maloney’s husband of 19 years, Joe, works at a CPA firm in Chantilly.

“I know it’s an uphill battle to win a write-in campaign,” Maloney state in the release, “but it just didn’t feel right to sit on the sidelines and allow my opponent to run unopposed.”