Thomas Bull and Jeremy Cali join Board of Education

January 4, 2024

The Board of Education appointed Thomas Bull and Jeremy Cali to the vacant board seats at the special board meeting on Wednesday, January 3, 2024. 

Thomas Bull is an educator with more than 30 years of experience at all levels. Tom has served as an elementary special education teacher, consultant, student teacher supervisor, and college professor. Most recently, Tom has served at Syracuse University’s School of Education as a teaching professor and Director of Field Relations. 

Tom is a well-respected leader in the field of inclusive and special education, and was instrumental in helping the School of Education develop and strengthen the Bridge to the City program connecting undergraduate and graduate students to student teaching placements in New York City schools. 

Tom and his wife Nicki have one child, Samuel, who is a 2016 C.W. Baker High School graduate.

Jeremy Cali, a criminal, civil, and corporate lawyer has been litigating cases for more than 17 years. Jeremy spent 12 years as a prosecutor and six of those years as Chief of the Special Victims Bureau. While at the District Attorney’s Office, he specialized in the investigation and prosecution of homicides, child abuse cases, sexual assaults against adults, sex trafficking, and domestic violence.

Jeremy has spent 5 years as in-house counsel for a large fintech company in Downtown Syracuse. He supervised litigation for their family of companies across the country. Jeremy currently has his own practice and has been doing criminal defense for five years at all levels.

Jeremy is a proud graduate of Baldwinsville Central Schools. He and his wife Patricia have four (4) children. Two (2) of Jeremy’s children, Sophia and Aidan, are C.W. Baker High School graduates and two (2) are current students (Nathan is a 10th grader at Baker High School and Gracie is a 1st grade at Palmer Elementary).

The board seats were vacated by Shelly Bligh Goeckel and Tanya Rosado-Barringer who resigned from the school board on December 4, 2023. The term for these Board of Education positions will expire on May 21, 2024, the date of the annual school board elections. If Thomas or Jeremy wish to continue in their positions on the board, they will need to run for a seat in the annual school board elections on May 21, 2024.