Sunday, February 07, 2010
Wood County Chooses New Superintendent
WEST VIRGINIA...
Wood County Schools Superintendent Bill Niday announced he was retiring in June. The board unanimously chose James Patrick Law for the job. Law, superintendent at Pocahontas County Schools, will begin his tenure in July. His resume is impressive. and he has local ties. Law was a member of Parkersburg South High School's second graduating class in 1969, a graduate of Glenville State College and earned a doctorate in education administration at West Virginia University. He spent 30 years in Kanawha County, the state's largest school system, as a teacher and an administrator and spent the last six years as superintendent in Pocahontas.
Wood County Schools Superintendent Bill Niday announced he was retiring in June. The board unanimously chose James Patrick Law for the job. Law, superintendent at Pocahontas County Schools, will begin his tenure in July. His resume is impressive. and he has local ties. Law was a member of Parkersburg South High School's second graduating class in 1969, a graduate of Glenville State College and earned a doctorate in education administration at West Virginia University. He spent 30 years in Kanawha County, the state's largest school system, as a teacher and an administrator and spent the last six years as superintendent in Pocahontas.