Lois Carson is State President of OAPSE. She was re-elected to that post in 2021. She was the former State Vice President, a position to which she was elected in November 2015. Lois has been a member of the union’s statewide executive board since 2013, serving as the Central District Executive Board Alternate and then Board Member before moving to State Vice President. Lois has been a secretary at Columbus City Schools for 37 years and currently works in the Department of Higher Education. In 2010, she was elected president of the Columbus School Employees Association (CSEA), made up of 11 local unions with more than 3,000 members who work in the Columbus City Schools. Lois is a past President and Vice-President of OAPSE Local 150, the union for Columbus City Schools’ secretaries.

She is an Ohio AFL-CIO vice president. She is also an active member of the Coalition of Black Trade Unionists (CBTU), A. Philip Randolph Institute (APRI), the Coalition of Labor Union Women (CLUW), and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). Lois is a graduate of Columbus City Schools. She studied Secretarial Studies and Office Administration at Columbus City School Adult Education and Early Childhood Education at Columbus State Community College. Lois was married for 27 years and has four children with her late husband. She enjoys spending time with her five grandchildren and her great-granddaughter.

Mike Lang was elected by the State Executive Board as the OAPSE State Vice President in 2019. He was elected to a four-year term in 2021. A 14-year OAPSE Local 470 leader at Mount Vernon City Schools, Mike had served as North Central District State Executive Board alternate since 2016. He started with Mt. Vernon City Schools in 2009 as a custodian, but the majority of his decade with the district has been as a computer technician. Mike is from a union family and was a member of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers at Cooper Energy Services. After a plant layoff, he worked at a cabinet manufacturing company, where he was active in union organizing campaigns. Mike was hired at Mount Vernon City Schools in September 2009 and signed a union card immediately. Within a few months, he was vice president of that local, which is the union for more than 120 workers in the district. Mike has served as Local 470 president since 2014 and was elected North Central District vice president in 2019. He is a graduate of Mount Vernon City Schools. Mike and his wife, Dianna, are parents of one son.

Sheila was elected by the State Executive Board as the new OAPSE State Secretary in 2023. Previously, Sheila was elected to serve as the Notheast District State Executive Board Member in 2015. Before that, Sheila served as the Northeast District State Executive Board Alternate for 8 years. Over the last 20 years Sheila has also been a Local Officer in OAPSE Local 689, Akron Public Schools. She has held the positions of Local President, Local Vice President, and Local Treasurer throughout the years. Sheila is the Chair of OAPSE’s Legislative and Retirement Committee. She is a member of the Coalition of Labor Union Women (CLUW), Coalition of Black Trade Unionists (CBTU), the NAACP, Akron-Summit Public Employees Coalition (ASPEC) and serves as the Corresponding Secretary of the Akron Alliance of Black School Educators (AKRO NABSE). Sheila is also President of the Akron/Canton Chapter of the A. Philip Randolph Institute (APRI). Sheila is a library technician and has been with the Akron Public Schools for over 40 years.