CTA Family Mourns Passing of Friend, Advocate and Board Member

Rest in Peace

Jerry Eaton
June 26, 1952 – April 13, 2022

“We mourn the passing of our colleague and friend, CTA Board Member Jerry Eaton. Jerry passed away Wednesday in Burlingame. He was 69. We are comforted by the gift of time we were able to share in his presence this week having just wrapped up the April CTA Board meeting. Jerry, serving his third term on the CTA Board of Directors, was a veteran high school teacher in the Travis Unified School District in Solano County.

A lifelong Californian, he was a fierce advocate for students and educators as a longtime union activist and leader.  Jerry’s passing is tragic and will be felt by the CTA Board, leaders, staff and the students and educators he’s represented in District A’s nine counties: San Francisco, Napa, Lake, Solano, Marin, Sonoma, Mendocino, Humboldt and Del Norte. We will miss him deeply and send our love and condolences to his family.”

-E. Toby Boyd

CTA President

Condolences to the family can be sent to:

CTA
Attn: Family of Jerry Eaton
1705 Murchison Dr.
Burlingame, CA 94010

Jerry Eaton, a veteran high school teacher in the Travis Unified School District in Solano County and former school board member in Vacaville Unified, is serving his third term on the CTA Board of Directors, which expires on June 25, 2023. 

A longtime union activist with 14 years of overall teaching experience, Eaton has been active with CTA at the state and local levels. He served for five years as a local delegate to the CTA State Council of Education, the union’s top governing body. For the Travis Unified Teachers Association, he served as vice president, political action committee chair and local school site representative, among other duties. 

To devote more time to the thousands of CTA members he represents over a wide area spanning many counties, Eaton resigned his seat on the Vacaville Unified school board after being elected to the CTA Board in June 2014. He now represents teachers on the CTA Board in nine counties: San Francisco, Napa, Lake, Solano, Marin, Sonoma, Mendocino, Humboldt and Del Norte. Eaton, a San Francisco native, is a Spanish and French language instructor. He has also taught English to English learners, and high school English. He holds a bachelor’s in economics from California State University-Stanislaus and a master’s in French from the University of California at Santa Barbara. 

Before his teaching career, he had a successful career as a financial advisor.