Complex sentence: Her win made her one of the first two school board officials of Vietnamese descent in the entire United States; the other, elected around the same time, was Lan Nguyen of Garden Grove, a city in southern California's Orange County.
Split into simpler sentences: Her win made her one of the first two school board officials of Vietnamese descent in the United States. The other, elected around the same time, was Lan Nguyen of Garden Grove, a city in southern California's Orange County.