Jefferson County Board of EducationDistrict 2

Phil
Hamingfor JCPS

A former JCPS teacher and 30-year machine tool professional running to put trades, accountability, and every kid's own talent back at the center of the district.

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Phil Haming in a campaign T-shirt at an outdoor political event
Three prioritiesNov 3, 2026
01

Fiscal
responsibility

Mandatory accounting measures that keep the board informed and stop the next round of overspending before it starts.

02

Skilled
trades

Real training in middle and high school — welding, HVAC, machining, CAD, CDL — for the students who want to build things.

03

Every child
has a gift

Help every student find the talent they already have, and a path that leads somewhere after graduation.

The platform

Where Phil stands

Phil spent two years teaching in JCPS classrooms and thirty years since then selling and supporting the machines that Kentucky manufacturers run. Both jobs come down to the same thing: knowing what a person is good at, and giving them the tools to do it.

The district is working its way out of a serious budget hole. Getting out of it takes ordinary discipline — accurate numbers, in front of the board, on a schedule — not a crisis every spring. And it takes programs that hold students in school because the work in front of them is worth doing.

  • TradesPlumbing, HVAC, welding, carpentry, industrial maintenance, auto repair, CDL, CAD, 3-D printing, machiningOffered in middle and high school
  • BudgetMandatory accounting measures reported to the boardSo overspending is caught early
  • ReadingK–3 reading mentoring, with high schoolers as reading buddies and coachesAt JCPS elementaries and nearby public libraries
  • AttendanceAn attendance-enforcement system that is actually staffedStudents in the building first
  • Class sizeSmaller classes through better options for students who struggle in a standard classroomConstructive alternatives, not removal
  • PathwaysCareer exposure before high school — trades, technology, business, the arts, entrepreneurshipMiddle school is not too early

Why I want to
serve on the board

In Phil's words
  1. To champion opportunities for middle and high school students to learn skilled trades such as plumbing, HVAC, welding, carpentry, industrial maintenance, auto repair, CDL, Computer Aided Design (CAD), 3-D printing and machining.
  2. To instill fiscal responsibility and mandatory accounting measures that keep the school board always informed to prevent future over-spending.
  3. To help guide and assist Superintendent Dr. Brian Yearwood in his immediate efforts to erase the $188,000,000 deficit left by the previous school board and administration.
  4. To strengthen early reading mentoring programs in K–3rd grade by fostering programs that reward JCPS high-school students who serve as reading buddies and reading coaches at nearby public libraries and JCPS elementary schools.
  5. To improve student attendance by ensuring that the attendance-enforcement system is adequately staffed and effective.
  6. To reduce class sizes, when possible, by offering more constructive programs to students who do not perform well in a regular classroom.
  7. To help every middle school student discover their unique talents, interests, and career opportunities. Every child has unique abilities that can lead to a productive and fulfilling future. I will support programs that expose students to skilled trades, technology, business, the arts, entrepreneurship, and other career pathways before they enter high school.

About Phil

Classroom, shop floor, Louisville

Phil Haming is a St. Xavier graduate and a former JCPS teacher who has spent the last three decades in industrial sales — the last twenty of them helping Kentucky shops buy, run, and staff the machines that make things.

He taught Language Arts and Social Studies at Newburg Middle School, then English at Holy Cross High School, where he also coached varsity basketball. He is a Certified Machine Tool Sales Engineer through the AMTDA and has been recognized repeatedly for market share at HAAS Factory Outlet, covering Louisville and Western Kentucky.

He and his wife Dina, a registered nurse, have been married since 1990 and raised five children, one of them a JCPS graduate. Their five kids took five different paths after school — skilled trades, business, the arts. That is the idea he is running on.

  • 1985St. Xavier High SchoolLouisville
  • 1989B.S., Hannibal LaGrange College
  • 1990–92Eastern Kentucky teacher certification program
  • 1992–94Language Arts & Social Studies teacherNewburg Middle School, JCPS
  • 1993–94English teacher & varsity basketball coachHoly Cross High School
  • 1995–Industrial sales
  • 2005–HAAS Factory OutletLouisville & Western Kentucky · multiple market share awards
  • Cert.Certified Machine Tool Sales Engineer, AMTDA

Get in touch

District 2 · Jefferson County

Questions about the campaign, an invitation to speak, or a school your family cares about — email Phil directly.

PhilipHaming@rocketmail.com
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Under Senate Bill 4, the Jefferson County Board of Education drops from seven members to five and the district lines were redrawn. Every seat is on the ballot this November, whichever district you voted in before.

Candidate
Philip F. Haming
Office
Jefferson County Board of Education
District
2
Election
Tue, Nov 3, 2026
Ballot
Nonpartisan · 5 candidates, 1 seat
Contact
PhilipHaming@rocketmail.com