Supt. Dr. Jim Scales announced the selection of a new Area I Elementary Operations Director along with two other principal appointments.
Gail Morgan, who is currently principal of Bess T. Shepherd Elementary School, will become the new Area I Elementary Operations Director.
She joins Don Beard, Area I Superintendent and David Cowan, Area I Secondary Operations Director in supervising schools in the Soddy Daisy, Hixson, Signal Mountain, Red Bank, North Chattanooga, Lookout Valley, Lookout Mountain and East Lake communities.
Ms. Morgan joined Hamilton County Schools in 1976 as a third grade teacher at Calvin Donaldson Elementary School. She became an assistant principal in 2000 and moved to Lakeside Academy as an assistant principal in 2002. She became principal of Bess T. Shepherd Elementary School in 2003.
Ray Evans will replace Ms. Morgan as interim principal of Bess T. Shepherd Elementary School. Mr. Evans hails from Ohio where he has been principal of three elementary schools for the last 9 years. Prior to that, he was a Central Office Administrator and an elementary principal in Austin, Texas, where he began his career in education as an elementary school teacher in 1973.
Finley King will assume the principalship of Central High School immediately, replacing Mr. Robert Sharpe who moved to Central Office as Director of Secondary Operations for Area II. Mr. King is currently the assistant principal at Central High School. He began his career in education in Oak Ridge City Schools in 1989. He joined Hamilton County Schools in 1992 as a computer teacher at Chattanooga Middle School and moved to Central High School in 2003. He became the assistant principal trainee at Central High School in 2005.