Race for 2 Seats on Inglewood Council Draws Large Field : Elections: Incumbents Daniel K. Tabor and Anthony Scardenzan will face heavy opposition. But the contest for three school board seats attracts few challengers.

Two Inglewood City Council incumbents will have to fend off a host of challengers to win reelection in the April 6 municipal balloting and avoid a June runoff.

Twelve people filed candidacy papers before Thursday’s 5 p.m. deadline to run for the two seats up for election on the five-member council. Five candidates are challenging incumbent Daniel K. Tabor in the 1st District. Five more are challenging 2nd District Councilman Anthony Scardenzan.

In contrast, three seats are up this year on the five-member board of the Inglewood Unified School District, but the race has drawn few challengers. Two of the seats will be contested, but board member Lawrence Aubry will run unopposed.

In the City Council races, Tabor, 38, and Scardenzan, 64, both are seeking their fourth four-year term. Tabor is an executive with United Way, and Scardenzan owns a custom metal manufacturing firm.

Those challenging Tabor are Mary H. Allen, Pamela Fisher, Gilbert A. Mathieu, Curren Price Jr. and Brad N. Pye Jr.

Allen, 42, is a longtime teacher and counselor in the Los Angeles Unified School District. No biographical information was available on Fisher, who filed just moments before the deadline. Mathieu, 60, owns a pharmacy in Los Angeles and is a former chairman of Inglewood’s parking and traffic commission.

Price, 42, is Southern California coordinator for the California Community Economic Development Assn., a statewide nonprofit group that works with other nonprofit organizations on economic development projects. Pye, 61, is a sports radio broadcaster who was also an aide to former Los Angeles County Supervisor Kenneth Hahn; he now coordinates disability programs in the county Children’s Services Department.

Candidates challenging Scardenzan are Judith L. Dunlap, Mark B. Ganier, Gary J. Nelson, Barbara Anne Seymore and Satanand Sharma.

Dunlap, 47, taught in the Inglewood schools for 25 years and is now president of the Inglewood Democratic Club. Ganier, 57, is making his second attempt to defeat Scardenzan. Ganier, supervisor of maintenance and operations for the Inglewood school district, ran against Scardenzan four years ago.

Nelson, 54, is an agent with Prudential Insurance Co. and is president of Inglewood’s sister city committee. Seymore, who declined to state her age, is a secretary for the Department of Defense. Sharma, 47, and his family own the Tradewinds Hotel in Inglewood. He is also director of the Inglewood Medical Mental Health Services Clinic.

In the school board races, one-term incumbent Thomasina Reed, a 44-year-old attorney serving as board president this year, is being challenged by Mildred Tennyson McNair, an educator and community activist.

Incumbent Joseph T. Rouzan Jr., former Inglewood police chief, has two challengers: full-time college student Lewis L. Lester, 19, and Dexter A. Henderson, who filed shortly before the deadline. Rouzan, 61, has been on the board since 1988, when he was appointed to fill an unexpired term.