The Cobb County School District announced a number of new principal assignments Thursday for the next school year, including several at East Cobb schools.
They include Wheeler High School, where Paul Gillihan is leaving after six years, having been reassigned to principal at Campbell High School.
The Campbell principal, Vanessa Watkins, was named principal at Betty Gray Middle School.
Gillihan will be replaced at Wheeler by Sara Fetterman, the principal at Sprayberry High School. Her successor at Sprayberry is David Church, the principal at Simpson Middle School.
The new Simpson principal is Cory Stanley, the principal at McClure Middle School.
Mt. Bethel Elementary School also will be getting a new principal in August, following the retirement of Tucker Smith. She is Michelle Gillham, who has been an assistant principal at Addison Elementary School.
The Cobb Board of Education formally approved those and other moves by a 7-0 vote at a voting meeting Thursday night.
The appointments of the principals in their new roles will become effective on July 1, when the fiscal year 2026 begins.
The Cobb school district’s 2025-26 academic year begins Aug. 1.
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