Membership
The Board consists of five Supervisors elected by districts to four-year terms by the citizens of Orange County. The Supervisors represent districts of approximately 600,000 people.
Supervisorial elections take place in June, with run-off elections (if necessary) in November. Supervisorial terms begin the first Monday after January 1 after the election. Vacancies on the Board are filled via special election since Orange County voters adopted a county charter in March 2002. Prior to the adoption of the charter, vacancies on the Board were filled by appointment by the Governor of California. The December 1996 appointment of Laguna Niguel City Councilman Thomas W. Wilson by Governor Pete Wilson (no relation) was the last time that a gubernatorial appointment was used to fill a supervisorial vacancy (Supervisor Marian Bergeson had resigned to become the California Secretary of Education). The January 2003 special election of former State Assemblyman Bill Campbell was the first time that a special election was used to fill a supervisorial vacancy (Supervisor Todd Spitzer had resigned after he was elected to the State Assembly to replace the term-limited Campbell).
The current members of the board of supervisors are:
- District 1: Janet Nguyen, Republican (since March 27, 2007)
- District 2: John Moorlach, Republican (since December 5, 2006)
- District 3: Todd Spitzer, Republican (since January 7, 2013; previously January 6, 1997–November 19, 2002)
- District 4: Shawn Nelson, Republican (since June 23, 2010)
- District 5: Patricia C. Bates, Republican (since January 9, 2007)
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