Director of Schools Patrick Cripps has announced that contracts have been signed with professional personnel and support staff for the 2017-18 school year.

The director unveiled the list of employees at the Board of Education’s monthly meeting on Thursday night. Certified personnel for next year are:

DeKalb County High School:

Angie Anderson, Charlotte Blaylock, Danny Bond, Amanda Brown, Kevin Burchfield, Cody Burton, Thomas Cagle, Britney Campbell, Amee Cantrell, Jeanine Cantrell, Todd Cantrell, Gary Caplinger, Mary Anne Carpenter, Karen Clark, Andrew Cook, Lisa Craig, Deborah DePriest, Andrew Dixon, Brittany Dixon, Donna Emmons, Danny Fish, Lacey Foutch, Amanda Fuller, David Gash, Josh Gulley, Sara Halliburton, Susan Hinton, Sonja House, William Jarvis, William Jennings, Adam Kefauver, Dylan Kleparek, Brad Leach, Tracy Luna, Lynus Martin, Rebecca Miller, Lori Myrick, Sarah Noe, Jenny Norris, Scott Odom, Nallely Ortega-Prater, Shelly Painter, Walteen Parker, Linda Parris, Leslie Parsley, John Pryor, Jane Rice, Marilyn Roberts, Melissa Ruch, Daniel Seber, Steve Trapp, Stephanie Turner, Chris Vance, Michael Whitefield, Shea Wiegele, Seth Willoughby, and Sara Young.

Northside Elementary School:

Marla Beshearse, Mollie Bratten, Linda Bush, Shanea Cantrell, Megan Carroll, Lori Chew, Allison Collier, Trent Colwell, Michael Crockett, Alisha Day, Tabitha Farmer, Lindsay Floyd, Jerry Foster, Carrie Gottlied, Amanda Griffith, Jennifer Griffith, Cynthia Hale, Jessica Hale, Patty Hale, Dalton Hawkins, Jennifer Herndon, Lorie Isabell, Karen Jacobs, Shelly Jennings, Karen Knowles, Kristy Lasser, Travis Little, Lisa Mabe, Jama Martin, Amanda Mathis, Libby McCormick, Tyler McKinney, Katie Merriman, Elizabeth Miller, Diana Moon, Melissa Odom, Josh Odom, Beth Pafford, Deb Poteete, Amy Raymond, Kristen Rowland, Melissa Roysdon, Carol Sampley, Tammy Sims, Jessica Styer, Carol Tripp, Cheryl Vandagriff, Kristen Van Vranken, Ginger Wenger, Jared West, and Sandy Willingham.

DeKalb West School:

Joey Agee, Jessica Antoniak, Jenny Cantrell, Jeanna Caplinger, William Conger, Kim Crook, Martha Damron, Rachel Desimone, Tonya Ellis, Janet England, Sabrina Farler, Karen France, Cathleen Humphrey, Nadina Martel, Jennifer Martin, Shelia McMillen, Amanda Mullinax, Tammy Payne, Lori Pryor, Cynthia Pulley, Kelly Pyburn, Jennifer Shores, Katie Stutts, Teresa Sullivan, Ashlee Thomason, Shelia Vanatta, Natasha Vaughn, Susan West, Cynthia Wilson, Vicki Wilson, and Amy Young.

Smithville Elementary School:

Misty Agee, Ashley Barnes, Renee Beaty, Lindsey Bouldin, Whitney Brelje, Beth Cantrell, Tiffany Cowart, Edward Dillard, Melba Farmer, Amy Fox, Tina Gash, Sydney Gremmels/Johnson, Katie Haggard, Vicky Hawker, Bradley Hendrix, Holly Hendrix, Tanya Howard, Kelly Huling, Ana Jarvis, Amanda Johnson, Niki Johnson, Magen Jones, Jennifer Judkins, Leah Magness, Kristen Malone, Laura Martinez, Adrienne McCormick, LeVaughnda Midgett, Leslie Moore, Lisa Neal, Macy Nokes, Allison O'Conner, Joy Parker, Layra Parker, Anita Puckett, Jane Ramsey, Amanda Rhoady, Bethany Rigsby, Heather Shehane, Melissa Sliger, Emily Summers, Carol Tallent, Allison Taylor, Janet Trapp, Julie Vincent, Tiffany Wheatley, Kristy Williams, Janet Woodward, Christie Young, Crystal Young, and Sherian Zamora.

DeKalb Middle School:

January Agee, Josh Agee, Suzette Barnes, Kelly Birmingham, Galen Brown, Nancy Cowan, Amanda Dakas, Tena Davidson, Jenny Elrod, Holly Espinosa, Jason Farley, Amy Fletcher, Suzanne Gash, Lesa Hayes, Lori Hendrix, Randy Jennings, Angela Johnson, Bryan Jones, Michelle Jones, Natalie Kintz, Martha Melching, Debra Moore, Justin Nokes, Courtney O’Conner, Emily Phillips, Justin Poteete, Mary Ann Puckett, Cody Randolph, Candice Scrabo, Penny Smitty, Tonya Sullivan, Laurie Sweeney, Jennifer Sykes, Kitty Thomas, Cheryl Vance, Tad Webb, Jennifer West, and Kathryn Wisinger.

Central Office Staff:

Gina Arnold, Dr. Kathy Bryant, Michelle Burklow, Dr. Danielle Collins, Elise Driver, Amy Lattimore, Joey Reeder, and Lori Rogers.

Support staff for the 2017-2018 school year are:

DeKalb County High School:

Rena Adcock, Vicky Atnip, Wanda Bradford, Kathy Chapman, Debora Cunningham, Debbie Eaton, Terry Emberton, Regina Estes, Beverly Ferrell, Betty Fisk, Thomas Maney, Charles Martin, Marsha Martin, Paulette McDonald, Rhonda Merriman, Tere Mooneyham, Sara Parker, Denise Rutland (part time), Carol Swope, Norman Underhill, Danny VanDyne, Tiffanie VanWinkle, Jamie Wright, and Debbie Young.

DeKalb Middle School:

Sue Arnold, Suzanne Caldwell, Martha Cantrell, Anita Conley, Tammy Ferrell, Trena Ferrell, Fay Gilreath, Doris Graham, Jeremy Haas, Ester Holder, Tammy Maynard, Josh Melton, Angie Moore, Linda Moser, Lisa Norton, David Parker, Tina Pedigo, Mary Sanders, Brad Trapp, and Vicky Walker.

Smithville Elementary School:

Janis Barnes, Brenda Beth Cantrell, Cindi Dias, Darlene Evans, Jennifer Gay, Betty Griffith, Connie Haggard, Margie Hale, Kayla Hale, Milinda League, Sara Lomas, Talitha Looney, Pat Milam, Eden Nokes, Holly Owens, James Owens, Cody Pack, Rebecca Parker, Rhonda Pelham, Amelia Phillips, Lori Poss, Amelia Randolph, Stephanie Reeder, Brenda Rigney, Jennifer Roller, Heather Soto, Beverly Starnes, Marie Storie, Mary-Margaret Tripp, Tammy Tyler, Rebecca Waggoner, and Celia Whaley.

Northside Elementary:

Pam Baines, Fay Baker, Evril Cubbins, Debra Dunaway, Tena Edwards, Terrie Ford, Robbie Joan Frazier, Glenda Gassaway, Gary Good, Phyllis Hallum, Ginda Kilgore, LaTonya Kleparek, Melinda Lattimore, Sunshine Martin, Thelma Martin, Lynn Pichey, Jo Dean Redmon, Ruby Thomason, JoAnn Vanatta, Kim Violet, Deneene Willingham, and Rita Young.

DeKalb West School:

Sean Antoniak, Holly Bain, Brenda Bandy, Todd Davis, Christy Dies, Donna Driver, Dorothy Duggin, Suzanne Dunn, Pauline Frazier (part time), Stephanie Fuson, Donna Hale, Lisa Hale, Kathy Malone, Nancy Mulloy, Tina Paschal, Rhonda Patrick, Elizabeth Redmon, Tonya Roberts, Kristi Sullivan, and Rena Willoughby.

County Wide Positions:

Chandra Adcock, Chanson Boman, W.C. Braswell, Cindy Childers, Christie Colwell, Shea Colwell, Bettye June Dodd, Christie Driver, Wade Ferrell, Greg Frasier, LeAnne Frasier, Yvonne Hale, Rebecca Hawkins, Terry Hicks, Earl Jared, Freda Johnson, Rita Johnson,Tammy Judkins, Jenean Lawson, Debbie London, Deborah Magness, Shirley Mathis, April Odom, Shirley Ours, Natasha Pedigo, Danny Pirtle, Jr., Melissa Pirtle, Kayla Randolph, Jo Dean Redmon, Roger Sharp, Kimberly Turner, Jamie Vickers, Betsye Walker, Judy Wiggins, Joannie Williams, and Aaron Young.

Transportation:

Michael Agee, Zack Adams, Danny Bond, Josh Brown, Dwayne Cantrell, Shannon Cantrell, Justin Coats, Shara Cowan, Cathy Driver, Debbie Eaton, Ricky Edwards, Marshall Ferrell, Julie Fitts, Lynn Griffith, Terry Hall, Darnette Hibdon, Melissa Hicks, Kathy Jacobs, Danny Jenkins, Dwight Knowles, Frances Lawson, Daniel Lawson, Donnie Lewis, Roy Merriman, Ronald Merriman, Cason Oakley, Linda Gail Pack, Jimmy Poss, Ashley Redmon, Myron Rhody, Jimmy Sprague, Carol Swope, Ken Taylor, Bobby Taylor, Juanita Thomas, B.J. Thomason, Cindy Washer, Danny Washer, Shawn Washer, and Angela Wilkerson.

Cripps also updated the board on transfers and resignations/retirements in his monthly personnel report.

Kathy Bryant, transferred from DCHS the position of Principal at DCHS to Supervisor of Instruction grades 6-12.

The following employees retired:

Bill Fowler, Linda Fowler, and Paula Pinegar

The following employees resigned:

Melissa Hicks, Darnette Hibdon, Vicki Sandlin, and Jimmy Stringer,

The board also approved tenure for the following:

Lindsey Bouldin, Jennifer Herndon, Todd Cantrell, Diana Ortega-Prater, Gary Caplinger, and Christie Young.