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2014-15 school hires announced
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Director of Schools Mark Willoughby announced at Thursday night’s meeting of the board of education that he has signed contracts with professional personnel andsupport staff for the 2014-2015 school year.
A list of those hired follows:
•Certified personnel:
•DeKalb County High School - Angie Anderson, Charlotte Blaylock, Danny Bond, Amanda Brown, Kathy Bryant, Kevin Burchfield, Kelley Burgess, Amee Cantrell, Jeanine Cantrell, Todd Cantrell, Gary Caplinger, Mary Anne Carpenter, Joe Pat Cope, Patrick Cripps, Bethany Davis, Deborah DePriest, Andrew Dixon, Brittany Dixon, Donna Emmons, Marshall Ferrell, Tina Fletcher, Amanda Fuller, David Gash, Josh Gulley, Sara Halliburton, Susan Hinton, Sonja House, John Isabell (LOA), William Jennings, Natasha Judkins, Dylan Kleparek, Brad Leach, Lynus Martin, Taylor McDaniel (Interim), Lori Myrick, Rolando Navarro, Jenny Norris, Scott Odom, Nallely Ortega-Prater, Shelly Painter, Walteen Parker, Linda Parris, Leslie Parsley, John Pryor, Mary Anne Puckett, Jane Rice, Marilyn Roberts, Melissa Ruch, Daniel Seber, Michael Shaw, Tracy Slone, Steve Trapp, Chris Vance, Dianne Werth, Michael Whitefield, Shea Wiegele, and Sara Young.
•Northside Elementary School - January Agee, Marla Beshearse, Kelly Birmingham, Mollie Bratten, Linda Bush, Regina Campbell, Megan Carroll, Wendy Colvert, Trent Colwell, Michael Crockett, Alisha Day, Ashley Dean, Tabitha Farmer, Danny Fish, Jerry Foster, Carrie Gottlied, Amy Green, Amanda Griffith, Jennifer Griffith, Melissa Hale, Cynthia Hale, Jessica Hale, Patty Hale, Jennifer Herndon, Greg Hibdon, Karen Jacobs, Shelly Jennings, Kristy Lasser, Lisa Mabe, Jama Martin, Amanda Mathis, Libby McCormick, Elizabeth Nolt, Josh Odom, Beth Pafford, Amy Raymond, Dr. Gayle Redmon, Ashley Reeves, Melissa Roysdon, Carol Sampley, Tammy Sims, Julie Styer, Carol Tripp, Kristen Van Vranken, Betsye Walker, Ginger Wenger, and Sandy Willingham.
•DeKalb West School - Doris Cantrell, Jenny Cantrell, Jeanna Caplinger, William Conger, Kim Crook, Martha Damron, Tonya Ellis, Janet England, Sabrina Farler, Lesa Hayes, Ricky Hendrix, Cathleen Humphrey, Kristen Kell, Regina Kent, Nadine Manganielle, Shelia McMillen, Diana Moon, Amanda Mullinax, Danny Parkerson, Tammy Payne, Debra Poteete, Cynthia Preston, Lori Pryor, Cynthia Pulley, Audrey Russell, Teresa Sullivan, Shelia Vanatta, Natasha Vaughn, Susan West, Vicki Wilson, and Amy Young.
•Smithville Elementary School - Misty Agee, Ashley Barnes, Renee Beaty, Kelly Birmingham, Lindsey Bouldin, Whitney Brelje, Beth Cantrell, Layra Crook, Vicky Duke, Tina Gash, Sydney Gremmels, Vicky Hawker, Bradley Hendrix, Holly Hendrix, Mary Henny, Tanya Howard, Kelly Huling, Lisa Hull, Lorie Isabell (LOA), Ana Jarvis, Amanda Johnson, Angela Johnson, Jennifer Judkins, Karen Knowles, Carrie Lee, Leah Magness, Kristen Malone, Adrienne McCormick, LeVaughnda Midgett, Hannah Mummert, Susan Palmer, Jane Ramsey, Amanda Rhoady, Allison Rigsby, Bethany Rigsby, Heather Shehane, Audra Stangeberg, Carol Tallent, Ashlee Thomason, Janet Trapp, Carol Tripp, Julie Vincent, Sherian Waggoner, Tiffany Wheatley, Kristy Williams, Janet Woodward, Christie Young, and Crystal Young.
•DeKalb Middle School - Joey Agee, Josh Agee, Lori Alexander, Suzette Barnes, Nancy Cowan, Margaret Coyle, Lisa Craig, Amanda Dakas, Tena Davidson, Courtney Davis, Jenny Elrod, Holly Espinosa, Amy Farler, Jason Farley, Suzanne Gash, Kerry Gibson, Lori Hendrix, Randy Jennings, Bryan Jones, Michelle Jones, Amy Key, Michael Lewis, Michael Littrell, Martha Melching, Debra Moore, Justin Nokes, Karen Pelham, Emily Phillips, Justin Poteete, Anita Puckett, Candice Scrabo, Penny Smitty, Tonya Sullivan, Kitty Thomas, Tad Webb, Jennifer West, Rebecca Whimpey, Kathryn Wisinger, and Alicia Wittenberg.
•Central Office Staff - Gina Arnold, Katherine Ballard, Lisa Bell, Michelle Burklow, Dr. Danielle Collins, Lisa Cripps, Stephanie Dyer, Amy Fox, Joey Reeder, Dee Anna Reynolds, and Lori Rogers.
•Support staff:
•DeKalb County High School - Rena Adcock, Wanda Bradford, Kathy Chapman, Kenderly Cripps, Debbie Eaton, Regina Estes, Beverly Ferrell, Darnette Hibdon, Melissa Hicks, Deborah Magness, Carl Malone, Thomas Maney, Charles Martin, Paulette McDonald, Rhonda Merriman, Sara Parker, JoAnn Pittman, Brian Reed, Denise Rutland, Vicky Sandlin, Carol Swope, Norman Underhill, Tiffanie VanWinkle, Jamie Wright, and Debbie Young.
•DeKalb Middle School - Sue Arnold, Jennifer Benton, Pauline Braswell, Anita Conley, Tammy Ferrell, Fay Gilreath, Doris Graham, Jeremy Haas, Connie Haggard, Angie Moore, Chris Moore, Lisa Norton, Angela Patrick, Paula Pinegar, Pauletta Ruffner, Mary Sanders, Teresa Spenser, Tammy Maynard, and Vicky Walker.
•Smithville Elementary School - Janis Barnes, Debora Cunningham, Brenda Beth Cantrell, Cindi Dias, Darlene Evans, Myra Fox, Jennifer Gay, Betty Griffith, Jean Hayes, Vicki Jefferies, Milinda League, Sara Lomas, Talitha Looney, Pat Milam, Tera Mooneyham, Ronda Northcutt, Holly Owens, Rebecca Parker, Rhonda Pelham, Amelia Phillips, Freeda Phillips, Lori Poss, Brenda Rigney, Amanda Trapp, Mary-Margaret Tripp, Tammy Tyler, and Celia Whaley.
•Northside Elementary - Pam Baines, Amy Buchanan, Sue Close, Evril Cubbins, Tena Edwards, Terrie Ford, Robbie Joan Frazier, Gary Good, Phyllis Hallum, Sherry Judkins, Deborah Knowles, Melinda Lattimore, Sunshine Martin, Thelma Martin, Rebecca Moss, Lynn Pichey, Jo Dean Redmon, Tenille Rowland, Ruby Thomason, JoAnn Vanatta, Kim Violet, Sharon Washer, Deneene Willingham, and Rita Young.
•DeKalb West School - Holly Bain, Brenda Bandy, Donna Driver, Dorothy Duggin, Ruth Frazier, Pauline Frazier, Stephanie Fuson, Shelly Gibson, Lisa Hale, Donna Hale, Jennifer Martin, Nancy Mulloy, Faye Nixon, Tina Paschal, Rhonda Pilgrim, Elizabeth Redmon, Beverly Starnes, Kristi Sullivan, and Rena Willoughby
•County Wide Positions - Chandra Adcock, Sandra Billings, Chance Bomen, W.C. Braswell, Rosalinda Cervantes, Cindy Childers, Tommy Clark, Christie Colwell, Billy Curtis, Bettye June Dodd, Christie Driver, Wade Ferrell, Julie Fitts, Greg Frasier, LeAnne Frasier, Yvonne Hale, Rebecca Hawkins, Terry Hicks, Earl Jared, Freda Johnson, Tammy Judkins, Amy Lattimore, Jenean Lawson, Debbie London, Marie Martin, Shirley Mathis, Brelle McCormick, Teresa Miller, Shelby Mulloy, April Odom, Shirley Ours, Angela Patrick, B.J. Patterson, Melissa Pirtle, Jo Dean Redmon, Joyce Robinson, Roger Sharp, Kimberly Turner, Barbara Vanatta, Jamie Vickers, Judy Wiggins, Polly Wilkins, and Joannie Williams.
•Transportation - Danny Bond, Dwayne Cantrell, Elaine Davis, Suzanne Dunn, Debbie Eaton, Ricky Edwards, Marshall Ferrell, Julie Fitts, Tina Fletcher, Linda Fowler, Bill Fowler, Lynn Griffith, Orlando Guzman, Donald Haggard, Darnette Hibdon, Melissa Hicks, Kathy Jacobs, Dwight Knowles, Daniel Lawson, Josh Lawson, Kimberly Lawson, Donnie Lewis, Bobby Martin, Michael Merriman, Ronald Merriman, Linda Gail Pack, Jimmy Poss, Myron Rhody, Eric Snow, Jimmy Sprague, Carol Swope, Ken Taylor, Bobby Taylor, B.J. Thomason, Tony Trapp, Danny Washer, Angela Wilkerson, and Donald Young.
The board also voted to grant tenure to the following teachers upon the recommendation of the Director of Schools:
Courtney Davis, Elizabeth Nolt, Tiffany Wheatley, Tanya Howard, Susan Palmer, Adrienne McCormick, and Susan West.
The Board approved the following teachers for a professional license upon the recommendation of the director:
January Agee, Brittany Dixon, Justin Nokes, Ashley Reeves, Lindsey Bouldin, Joshua Gulley, Nallely Ortega-Prater, Kelley Burgess, and Jennifer Herndon.