The Wiscasset School Committee voted 5-0 Thursday, Feb. 26 to hire Heather Wilmot as superintendent of schools. Wilmot will become Wiscasset’s first permanent superintendent since the town’s withdrawal from the Sheepscot Valley Regional School Unit.
Wilmot has agreed to a three-year contract with Wiscasset. She will start work July 1. She is currently the assistant superintendent of the Lisbon School System, a position she has held for four years.
Wilmot comes very well qualified to serve as superintendent of schools, according to school committee Chairman Steve Smith.
She is a graduate of the Newburyport High School in Newburyport, Mass., she has a bachelor’s degree in education from St. Joseph’s College, a master’s degree and certificate of advance studies from the University of New England, and will receive her doctorate in transformational leadership in August 2015. She lives in Brunswick with her husband, Noah.
Smith presented Wilmot and her husband with a Wolverine sweatshirt after introducing them to members of the public present at the meeting.
Interim Superintendent Lyford Beverage announced the hiring of Shelly Schmal as the school department’s finance manager. Schmal has served as administrative assistant at Wiscasset High School for neary 25 years.
Wiscasset High School Principal Cheri Towle said, “We are really going to miss her.”
