Thursday, May 1, 2008

New FCHS principal announced

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA         Jinny Hurdle, of Maysville, has been offered and accepted the position of Fleming County High School principal for the coming year. Ms. Hurdle will replace Mr. Brad Sorrell, who is retiring after 11 years in this position.

Ms. Hurdle is a native of Alabama and was educated in Alabama, Arkansas and an international boarding school in Wales. She graduated with honors from Vanderbilt University, completed her master’s degree at the University of Mississippi and has worked on her doctorate at Ole Miss.

Ms. Hurdle has served in Mississippi as a high school English teacher, high school assistant principal and a district level administrator. She has also been Coordinator of Testing and Instruction in the Holly Springs school district in Mississippi.

She comes to us from Riverside Publishing Division of Houghton Mifflin where she has worked with Riverside’s Edusoft Division, which provides benchmark testing software.

Ms. Hurdle is an avid sports fan and is excited and ready to wear black and gold this next year to cheer on the Panthers as well as get involved with the other student organizations at FCHS.

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