The Cobb Board of Education on Thursday approved the appointment of new principals at schools in East Cobb for the 2024-25 academic year.
Dr. Mitchell Askew, an 8th grade administrator at Pearson Middle School in South Cobb, is the new principal at East Cobb Middle School.
He has been a teacher in the Savannah-Chatham and Cobb school districts in a 20-year career. Askew had been an assistant principal at Hillgrove High School and Campbell High School before coming to Pearson in 2021.
A former teacher at Cooper Middle School, Askew was in charge of academies, transportation and the AVID program at Pearson. He earned a bachelor’s and master’s degrees in education from Kennesaw State University and a doctorate in education from Piedmont College.
Askew will succeed Leetonia Young, who is retiring.
Ruth Martin, an assistant principal at Garrison Mill Elementary School, has been named the principal there.
She has been there since 2021, and also served as an assistant principal at Sedalia Park Elementary School and was a teacher at Brumby Elementary School and Nicholson Elementary School.
Martin earned degrees from Brigham Young University and Kennesaw State and hold’s an education specialist degree from the University of West Georgia.
She succeeds Kyle Giesler.
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