Election results - Governance - John Lawrence president elect - Brief Article

School Administrator, May, 2002

Congratulations to John Lawrence, superintendent of schools in Troy, Mo., who was elected presidentelect of AASA during the 2002 elections. Lawrence, an AASA member for 16 years, has served as superintendent of the 4,700-student Troy R-3 Schools since July 1984. Previously, Lawrence was the superintendent of Schuyler County R-I Public Schools in Lancaster, Mo.

Lawrence has been an active AASA member and has held various leadership positions. He has served as a member of the AASA Executive Committee since 1999. He also serves as the AASA Executive Committee liaison to the Rural/Small Schools Advisory Committee.

Lawrence is a recognized school leader in Missouri. In 1998, he was selected as the Missouri State Superintendent of the Year and served as the president of the Missouri Association of School Administrators.

Congratulations are also in order for two newly elected members of the AASA Executive Committee, Joan Kowal and Donald Trombley.

Kowal, superintendent of the Hayward Unified School District in Hayward, Calif., since March 2001, has been an AASA member for 20 years.

Trombley, superintendent of the Corning City School District, in Painted Post, N.Y., since January 1999, has been an AASA member for 16 years.

AASA presidents serve one-year terms. Presidentelect Bill Hill, superintendent of the Deer Valley Unified School District in Phoenix, Ariz., will take office on July 1, 2002. Hill has appointed Barbara Pulliam, superintendent of schools in St. Louis Park, Minn., to serve a two-year, at-large term with the AASA Executive Committee.

Lawrence, Kowal, Trombley and Pulliam will be officially sworn in on May 3 at the AASA Leadership Conference in New Orleans, and will take office on July 1, 2002.