Higdon Named Interim Principal at St. Mary

St. Mary School System has announced Susan Higdon as Interim Principal at St. Mary Middle/High School. Mrs. Higdon begins her duties at the Catholic school on Monday.

An experienced educator, Higdon retired from the Graves Co. School District, where she spent the majority of her career as a high school teacher, with three years as a middle school teacher, and five years as Principal at Fancy Farm Elementary. She has also worked with the Kentucky Department of Education as a Highly-Skilled Educator, as a teacher for high school boys in a youth detention center, as a trainer for the Kentucky Leadership Academy and as a teacher mentor. Most recently, she served as interim principal at Dawson Springs High School.

“We welcome Mrs. Higdon to the St. Mary family. She has always seen St. Mary as a school of excellence and will use her talents to maintain the highest standard, both spiritually and academically,” said Rev. J. Patrick Reynolds, Episcopal Vicar of St. Mary School System.

The school system says Higdon will serve the full year as interim principal at St. Mary while a nationwide search for a strong, Catholic principal takes place.

Higdon lives in Fancy Farm with her husband, Gene, and they have have two grown daughters and two granddaughters.