Renee Garris, who has been the principal at Mountain View Elementary School at East Cobb since 2010 and has been an educator for more than three decades, will retire at the end of the 2022-23 school year.
The Cobb County School District announced her retirement, effective June 30, at a Cobb Board of Education meeting Thursday night following an executive session.
Garris also was an administrator for six years and a classroom teacher for 14 years in the Cobb County School District.
She helped prepare the school community for the relocation of the campus from its longtime venue on Sandy Plains Road near Shallowford Road in 2017 to a new site on Sandy Plains, at the intersection of Davis Road.
Garris is a graduate of Cobb County schools and has been on the board of directors for the Northeast Cobb Business Association, which has a formal partnership with public schools in the area.
Also on Thursday, new principals were announced to fill vacancies for the 2023-24 year.
Ashley Beasley, who has been the director of the Cobb school district’s Elementary Virtual Program, was appointed principal at Davis Elementary School.
She has 18 years of education experience, including nine years as an assistant principal. She attended Cobb schools, graduating from McEachern High School, and earned bachelor’s, master’s, educational leadership and educational doctorate degrees from Kennesaw State University.
Beasley is succeeding Kristin Erbskorn, who is retiring.
The new principal at Shallowford Falls Elementary School is Lindsey McGovern, who has been the assistant principal there since 2019.
She has 20 years of experience in the Cobb school district and has taught and was an assistant principal at Brumby Elementary School.
McGovern, who succeeds retiring principal Donna Long, earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of Georgia and obtained graduate degrees from Kennesaw State.
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