Lakeview Academy announces first female Head of School

Lakeview Academy has selected a new Head of School for the 2020-2021 school year, their first female principal.
 
The Board of Trustees named Kirsty Montgomery, Ph. D., on Tuesday. Montgomery comes from the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill., according to a press release from the school.
 
"We are so fortunate to bring someone of Dr. Montgomery's well-rounded academic credentials and leadership to Lakeview," Board Chairman Clay Eubanks said. "I look forward to seeing her embark on a bold new legacy for our students, parents, staff - and the entire Gainesville-Hall County community.
 
Montgomery was selected unanimously by a search committee and the board from a national field of over 200 candidates.
 
"I am deeply honored to have been selected as Lakeview Academy's next Head of School," Dr. Montgomery said. "Lakeview embodies the type of school community that I gravitate toward, and its values are those to which I am profoundly committed. Chris and I are so excited to become part of the Lakeview family."
 
Montgomery led the Osher learning program for the past five years, overseeing five administrators, 300 faculty members and more than 1,500 students; her accomplishments there included a strategic plan that resulted in a 55-percent increase in enrollment. Previously, she had taught from third grade to 12th year in Illinois.
 
She holds a philosophy degree in political science at Northwestern, two M.A. degrees in history and sciences at the University of Chicago and earned her Ph. D. in history at the University of Chicago.
 
Montgomery will arrive at Lakeview by July 2020 with her husband, Chris, and her six children, who range in age from college-age to a 13-year-old who will enroll at Lakeview next year.