School Board sets talks on superintendent hunt

School Board sets talks on superintendent hunt

• Advocate Baker - Zachary bureau
  
• Published: Dec 16, 2009 - Page: 4B
  

ST. FRANCISVILLE — The West Feliciana Parish School Board on Tuesday set a special Jan. 12 meeting to discuss how it plans to proceed with interviews for the school system's next superintendent.

Board President Sara Wilson-Wright said interviews with candidates selected by the board will begin in mid- to late January.

Eleven people submitted applications for the post, which is now held on an interim basis by Jesse L. Perkins Jr.

Perkins stepped up from the assistant superintendent's position when Superintendent Lloyd L. Lindsey Jr. died in an April 15 accident.

The candidates, in the order they submitted applications, are as follows:

• John R. Philips, Isle of Palms, S.C.; former director of university-school district partnerships, Claflin University, Orangeburg, S.C.
  
• Pamlynn Hardy, New Orleans; former director of student services, Camelot of Louisiana.
  
• Retired Pointe Coupee Parish Superintendent Dan Rawls, Pierre Part.
  
• Former East Baton Rouge Parish Superintendent Gary Mathews, now superintendent of the Williamsburg-James City County School District, Williamsburg, Va.
  
• Camacia Smith-Ross, New Orleans; Upward Bound director, Dillard University.
  
• Hollis G. Milton, Baton Rouge; principal, Southeast Middle School.
  
• Paul E. Nelson, Vidalia; director of academic programs, Concordia Parish School Board.
  
• James Alton Taylor Jr., Baton Rouge; associate professor of education, Southern University.
  
• Deborah H. Moran, Kiln, Miss.; principal and supervisor, Hancock County School District.
  
• Mark E. Marshall, Tacoma, Wash.; principal, Thomas Jefferson High School, Federal Way, Wash.
  
• Lynette R. Zimmer, Burlington, Wisc.; former assistant superintendent, Fremont School District 79, Mundelein, Ill.