Ten to interview for superintendent job

District in Montgomery County seeks new school superintendent.

Five area administrators are among the candidates to head West Carrollton City Schools.

Five area WEST CARROLLTON — administrators are among the 10 candidates being interviewed through Monday for the West Carrollton City Schools superintendent’s job.

Of 16 applicants, the list of local candidates vying to replace longtime Superintendent Rusty Clifford includes two superintendents, an assistant superintendent, a director and a principal, according to the district.

The interviews — which began Wednesday evening, resume at 10 a.m. today and continue at 5:30 p.m. Monday – last about an hour, according to district Treasurer Ryan Slone, a member of the school board’s search committee for the first round.

“After the first round is complete, the board will narrow down the list of 10 and invite back for

second round interviews the candidates that they believe are the most qualified and the best fit for becoming West Carrollton’s next superintendent,” according to Slone.

Area administrators interviewing with the district, which also includes parts of Miamisburg and Moraine, for the job include:

Amy Baldridge, Greene County Educational Service Center director of educational programs;

Kimberly Hall, Walter Shade Early Childhood Center principal in West Carrollton;

Shelley Hilderbrand, Huber Heights City Schools assistant superintendent;

Matthew McCorkle, former Washington Court House Schools superintendent;

Jeff Patrick, Franklin-Monroe Local Schools superintendent.

The other five include: Thomas Bailey, assistant superintendent of Three Rivers Local Schools in Cleves near Cincinnati; Martha Hasselbusch, superintendent of South Central in Greenwich; Robert Humble, superintendent of Fairbanks Local Schools in Milford Center; Michael McCoy, superintendent of Oak Hill Union Local Schools in Jackson County; and Andrea Townsend, superintendent of New Bremen Local Schools in Auglaize County.

District officials declined to specify which candidates were interviewing on which days.

Clifford, who has held the job since 1999, submitted his resignation letter last month but will end his tenure effective July 31. A forum on the superintendent search and what qualities the community would like to see in the Clifford’s successor was held Feb. 22.

“We have taken that input and created questions based on what we would like to see in a superintendent,” board President Roberta Phillips said in an email.

District officials declined to say how many candidates will be invited back for the second round of interviews, only that the goal was to narrow the list.

“They will determine the next step in the process after the (first) round interviews are complete,” according to Slone.

The board’s goal is to wrap up the interviewing by mid-April and vote on a new superintendent in early May.