The Sun
Sunnyvale's Newspaper

SESD names new superintendent

By Katherine Petersen

The Sunnyvale Elementary School District Board of Education announced Aug. 29 that Dr. Joseph W. Rudnicki will be its new superintendent.

Rudnicki fills the vacancy left by Dr. Doris Wilson in May, who left the district to head a school district in Southern California.

Rudnicki will officially assume his new position Sept. 15 after completing duties at his current post as superintendent of the Coalinga-Huron Unified School District.

Prior to his three-year tenure there, Rudnicki served as assistant superintendent of the Santa Maria Bonita Elementary School District and director of personnel for the Lompoc Unified School District. He also worked twice as a principal and four years as a classroom teacher.

Rudnicki brings leadership experience and a demonstrated record of creative problem solving to the district, said Board President Bill McDowell.

"We could not be more pleased with our search results," McDowell said. "We are very excited that we have found an excellent educational leader who will move our district to the next level and beyond. Our students and community deserve to have the best, and we believe we have found it in Joe Rudnicki."

Rudnicki will relocate to Sunnyvale with his wife and two children.

The school board began its superintendent search last March when Wilson accepted a position in the Desert Sands School District.

The school board gathered community input from a variety of groups on qualifications they would like to see in a new superintendent to aid in its search, McDowell said.

[ Back to Contents Page | Sunnyvale Sun Home Page | Archives ]

This article appeared in the Sunnyvale Sun, September 3, 1997.
©1997 Metro Publishing, Inc. All rights reserved.