(A) As used in this section and in sections 3311.72 to 3311.87 of the Revised Code:

1. (1) "Municipal school district" means a school district that is or has ever been under a federal court order requiring supervision and operational, fiscal, and personnel management of the district by the state superintendent of public instruction.
2. (2) "Mayor" means the mayor of the municipal corporation containing the greatest portion of a municipal school district's territory.

(C) No school board member shall be appointed by the mayor pursuant to division (B) of this section until the mayor has received a slate of at least eighteen candidates nominated by a municipal school district nominating panel, at least three of whom reside in the municipal school district but not in the municipal corporation containing the greatest portion of the district's territory. The municipal school district nominating panel shall be initially convened and chaired by the state superintendent of public instruction, who shall serve as a nonvoting member for the first two years of the panel's existence, and shall consist of eleven persons selected as follows:

1. (1) Three parents or guardians of children attending the schools of the municipal school district appointed by the district parent-teacher association, or similar organization selected by the state superintendent;
2. (2) Three persons appointed by the mayor;
3. (3) One person appointed by the president of the legislative body of the municipal corporation containing the greatest portion of the municipal school district's territory;
4. (4) One teacher appointed by the collective bargaining representative of the school district's teachers;
5. (5) One principal appointed through a vote of the school district's principals, which vote shall be conducted by the state superintendent;
6. (6) One representative of the business community appointed by an organized collective business entity selected by the mayor;
7. (7) One president of a public or private institution of higher education located within the municipal school district appointed by the state superintendent of public instruction. The municipal school district nominating panel shall select one of its members as its chairperson commencing two years after the date of the first meeting of the panel, at which time the state superintendent of public instruction shall no longer convene or chair the panel. Thereafter, the panel shall meet as necessary to make nominations at the call of the chairperson. All members of the panel shall serve at the pleasure of the appointing authority. Vacancies on the panel shall be filled in the same manner as the initial appointments.

(G) In addition to the nine members appointed by the mayor, the boards appointed pursuant to divisions (B) and (F) of this section shall include the following nonvoting ex officio members:

1. (1) If the main campus of a state university specified in section 3345.011 of the Revised Code is located within the municipal school district, the president of the university or the president's designee;
2. (2) If any community college has its main branch located within the district, the president of the community college that has the largest main branch within the district, or the president's designee.