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Emily Lipe, Davidson County Schools superintendent, to retire in September

Dr. Emily Lipe, Superintendent of Davidson County Schools, plans to step down in September. Image courtesy of Davidson County Schools.

Dr. Emily Lipe, Superintendent of Davidson County Schools, plans to step down in September. Image courtesy of Davidson County Schools.

Davidson County Schools Superintendent Dr. Emily Lipe is stepping down after a decades-long career with the system. 

Dr. Lipe’s retirement is effective Sept. 1, just days after the start of the school year. Prior to becoming superintendent in 2017, she had served as assistant superintendent for curriculum and instruction.

Lipe holds a doctorate from High Point University and master’s degrees from UNC Charlotte and UNC Greensboro. 

Lipe began her teaching career in Surry County Schools in 1987. Two years later she took a position as an English Teacher at West Davidson High School. 

In 2002, she was named principal of Davis-Townsend Elementary and earned the system’s “principal of the year” honors in 2007.

There are more than 30 schools in the district. It’s one of three systems in Davidson County, along with Lexington City Schools and Thomasville City Schools.

The Davidson County school board has tapped Tabitha Broadway, Executive Director of Communications and Strategic Planning, as Lipe’s interim replacement.

 

Paul Garber is a Winston-Salem native and an award-winning reporter who began his journalism career with an internship at The High Point Enterprise in 1993. He has previously worked at The Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, The News and Record of Greensboro and the Winston-Salem Journal, where he was the newspaper's first full-time multimedia reporter. He won the statewide Media and the Law award in 2000 and has also been recognized for his business, investigative and multimedia reporting. Paul earned a BA from Wake Forest University and has a Master's of Liberal Arts degree from Johns Hopkins University and a Master's of Journalism and Mass Communication from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He lives in Lewisville.

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