Update: New School Principals Appointed Throughout District

Since June 16, the Board of Education has approved many new principal assignments for the 2009-10 school year. Many of the principals will be replacing those who have retired; others have moved to different schools or administrative jobs.

Here are the schools affected and their new principals, as of August 4, 2009.

Elementary/K-8 Schools

• Bay Park: Elizabeth Ballard, formerly vice principal, San Diego High.
  
• Bethune: John Spiegel, from director, High School Instructional Support.
• Bird Rock: Carol Barry, formerly Chief Elementary School Officer.
• Cadman: Leslie Barnes, from principal, North Park Elementary School.
• Chollas-Mead: Julia Bridi, formerly vice principal at Jerabek Elementary.
  
• Field: Yesenia Robinson, from principal, Marshall Elementary.
• Encanto: Debra Baker, formerly principal, Roosevelt Elementary School, Desert Sands Unified School District.
  
• Gage: Kathy Burns, formerly vice-principal of Wilson Middle School.
• Garfield: Chip Dale, formerly principal of Green Elementary.
• Grant: Monique Robertson, from principal, School of Law and Business, Crawford High Educational Complex.
• Green: Bruce Ferguson, formerly Hardy Elementary School principal.
  
• Hage: Eric Takeshita, from principal, Bay Park Elementary.
• Hamilton: Mary Tayler, formerly principal, Jefferson Elementary School, Hoffman Estates, Ill.
  
• Hancock: Yolanda Lewis, from principal, Rolando Park Elementary.
• Hardy: Kathy Wolfe, formerly principal at Bay Park and Clay elementary schools.
  
• Hawthorne: Kimberly Lopez, from vice principal, Encanto Elementary.
  
• Holmes: Evva Cross, formerly principal of Porter Elementary.
• Jones: Rita Powell, from vice principal, Logan School.
• Kimbrough: Flavia Soria, formerly principal of Longfellow School.
• Longfellow: Cynthia Garrison-Arce, formerly IB Diploma Examiner, International Baccalaureate Organization, United Kingdom.
• Marshall: Staci Monreal, from Los Angeles Schools (on loan from SDUSD).
  
• Miramar Ranch: Peggy Crain, formerly principal of Rosa Parks Elementary.
  
• Oak Park: Milton Martin, from vice principal, ALBA.
• Porter: Lillie McMillan, formerly principal, Hamilton Elementary School.
  
• Rosa Parks: Carolanne Buguey, formerly principal of Chollas-Mead.
• Rolondo Park: Kimberly Meng, from vice principal, De Portola Middle School.
  
• Sequoia: Ryan Kissel, formerly vice principal, Emerson/Bandini Elementary.
• Sunset View: Jackie McCabe, formerly principal, Cadman Elementary.
• Vista Grande: Mary Catherine Calcagno, formerly vice principal, Adams Elementary.
  

Middle Schools

• Creative Performing and Media Arts Middle School (CPMA): Scott Thomason, formerly vice-principal San Diego School for Creative and Performing Arts (CPMA).
  
• Wangenheim: Lamont Jackson, formerly Certificated Staffing Administrator.

High Schools

• Crawford (School of Community Health and Medical Practices [CHAMPS]): William Laine, formerly vice principal at Clairemont High School.
  
• Crawford (School of Law and Business): Patrick Holland, formerly high school principal and associate superintendent, Benecia Unified School District.
• iHigh Virtual Academy: Patty MacIntyre, formerly San Diego County Office of Education Program Manager.
• Lincoln (Schools of Social Justice and Arts): Ana Shapiro, from vice principal, Lincoln High.
• Madison High: Richard Nash, from Madison vice principal.
  
• Mission Bay: Fred Hilgers, formerly principal of the Creative Performing and Media Arts Middle School.
• Morse High School: Harry Shelton, from Morse vice principal.
  
• San Diego High (School of Media, Visual and Performing Arts): Consuelo Manriquez De Beltran, formerly vice principal, Correia Middle School.

Atypical Schools

• ALBA: Richard Moore, formerly principal of Lincoln High Arts and Social Justice.
  
• Mt. Everest Academy: Nicole Wahab, from Principal, Escondido Classical Academy High School.
• Twain: Cesar Alcantar, formerly Principal on Special Assignment.
  

Additional principal appointments will be made at future meetings. For more information on Board meetings, go to the Board of Education section.