BANGOR – Former City Council Chairwoman Nichi Farnham will be the only candidate on the ballot for a special school committee election set for June 12.

The city election will coincide with a statewide vote on two bond issues.

Though one other resident took out a nomination petition for the post, which opened up last fall, Farnham was the only resident to submit one by Friday’s deadline, City Clerk Patti Dubois said.

The position, which expires in November 2009, was briefly held by Dan Tremble, a former city councilor who also served a term as council chairman.

Tremble was the top vote-getter in a three-way contest Nov. 7 for two school committee seats.

He resigned from his post Nov. 16, one day after Bangor School Superintendent Robert Ervin informed him that under state law, he could not serve on the panel while his wife, Molly Tremble, was employed by the school department.

Molly Tremble was hired last September as an education technician at Fairmount School.

Since Tremble’s resignation, the seven-member school committee has been operating on six cylinders.

The June election marks Farnham’s first bid for a school committee seat.

Farnham has a bachelor’s degree from the U.S. Air Force Academy and a master’s degree in management from Webster University.

She worked in a local family business after leaving the Air Force with the rank of captain. While in the service, she did communications work with Air Force Command computer systems and with NORAD’s missile warning center.

Farnham moved with her husband to the city from the Fargo, N.D., area in May 1991.

The mother of three boys, Farnham was elected to the council in early 1997, when she won a special election to replace Marshall Frankel, who resigned before serving his full term.

Later that year, she won the first of two consecutive three-year terms. In 2002, Farnham was elected Bangor’s third woman mayor, following in the footsteps of Mary Sullivan and Patricia Blanchette. She termed out in 2003.