Mayor Wu last week reappointed two Dorchester residents, Jeri Robinson and Quoc Tran, to new four-year terms as members of the Boston School Committee.

“Both Jeri and Quoc are champions for all our students and school staff, and they’re committed to digging in and making the systemic changes our communities need,” Wu said in a statement. “I want to thank them both for their leadership and look forward to continuing our work together.”

Robinson has served as chair of the eight-member board, which oversees the city’s schools, since 2021. She is retired, having previously worked as vice president of early childhood initiatives at the Boston Children’s Museum.

First appointed to the School Committee in 2014, she played a key role in Wu’s search for a permanent superintendent earlier this year. The committee voted in June to hire Mary Skipper, a Dorchester resident who was heading up Somerville’s public schools after a long career as an educator in Boston.

Skipper called both Robinson and Tran “trusted and valuable partners” since her return to Boston schools, saying, “I’m thrilled they’ll remain in place as we continue to improve facilities, foundations, and outcomes for students and families across the city.”

For their part, Robinson said the school system is in a “new era,” while Tran said he was “grateful” for the opportunity to keep “building a system that will nurture the next generation.”

Tran, who also is retired, is the father of four BPS graduates. He previously worked as deputy director of diversity and civil rights within the Massachusetts Executive Office of Health and Human Services and executive director of the Vietnamese American Civic Association. He was a high school teacher for six years and was first appointed to the School Committee in 2019.

School Committee members are appointed by the mayor, though education activists are pushing for a return to an elected panel, bolstered by the results of a nonbinding ballot question in the 2021 election. Wu has said she prefers a hybrid model, a panel consisting of both elected and appointed members.

Any change requires support from the mayor, councillors, and state lawmakers.