PANAMA CITY - Bay District Schools superintendent appointed a new director of transportation and two new principals for the upcoming academic year, a school district news release stated.
Bill Husfelt, superintendent of schools, appointed Robert Downin as Director of Transportation, Carol Ann Whitehurst as principal at Deer Point Elementary and Amy Harvey as principal at Northside Elementary.
According to the release, Downin’s tenure in the school transportation industry began in 1992 and, over the years, he’s worked in Louisiana, Indiana and Santa Rose County, Fla.
Downin began his tenure at the school district on Monday.
Whitehurst, formerly the assistant principal at Hiland Park Elementary, started teaching in Bay County in 1993 and became J.R. Arnold High’s assistant principal in 2004, the release stated.
Harvey had served as an assistant administrator for the past two years at Northside Elementary and is a former teacher at Jinks Middle School and Lynn Haven Elementary, the release stated.
Both newly appointed principals will begin serving as at their respective schools when the school year picks back up in the fall, the release stated.
