Amanda Dakas has been named principal at DeKalb Middle School. Director of Schools Patrick Cripps has chosen Dakas, who has served as assistant principal at DMS for five years, to fill the vacancy left when Randy Jennings took the principal’s position at DeKalb County High School recently. Dakas is a 1991 graduate of DeKalb County High School, and earned her Bachelor of Arts degree with a Major in Speech Communication and a Minor in Inclusive Early Childhood Education, her Masters of Science degree in Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Tennessee.