Bentley Elected to State Association Board
Nichole Bentley has been elected to a three-year term on the Texas Association of School Boards (TASB) Board of Directors, representing TASB Region 10, Position D. The election was held during the Association’s 2026 Delegate Assembly on Oct. 9 in Houston.
Bentley began serving on the Coppell ISD Board in 2018 and is currently the board president.
She holds a bachelor’s in business from the University of Nebraska, which included undergraduate studies in internal business and trade at Oxford University in Mansfield, England. She also holds a master’s in business administration from the Cox School of Business at Southern Methodist University.
Bentley’s professional career spans for-profit and non-profit industries. She spent 13 years with The Nature Conservancy and Texas Parks and Wildlife Foundation raising money to advance conservation in Texas and around the world. Bentley also supported fundraising and marketing for Southern Methodist University and the Perot Museum (formerly the Dallas Museum of Natural History).
She is a 2020 Leadership TASB graduate and Master Trustee.
About TASB
TASB is a nonprofit organization established in 1949 to serve local Texas school boards. School board members are the largest group of publicly elected officials in the state. The districts they represent serve approximately 5.4 million public school students.