Prince William County Public Schools: PWCS Appoints Catherine Porter-Lucas As Associate Superintendent For Middle Schools

Woodbridge VA

17 June, 2021

1:25 PM

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Press release from Prince William County Public Schools: 06/17/2021 Prince William County Public Schools (PWCS) has appointed Catherine Porter-Lucas as associate superintendent for middle schools. Porter-Lucas fills a newly created role as a second associate superintendent for middle schools, joining William Bixby who also serves in the role. Porter-Lucas has been principal of Gainesville Middle School since 2014. In this role Porter-Lucas, in collaboration with Bixby, will provide support and direction to the seventeen PWCS middle schools, as well as Porter and Pennington traditional schools, with a total enrollment of approximately 20,000 students. Porter-Lucas has 21 years of experience in numerous instructional and leadership roles within PWCS. She began her career as a language arts teacher and world history teacher at Parkside Middle School. She subsequently worked as a teacher at Bull Run and Hampton Middle Schools. She also worked as an administrative intern at Battlefield High School and as a summer school assistant principal at Gainesville and Parkside Middle Schools. Additionally, she held the role of assistant principal at Battlefield High from 2009 through 2014. Porter-Lucas holds master's degrees in educational leadership from Mary Washington University and in middle education grades 4-8 from James Madison University. She also holds a bachelor's degree in sociology from the University of Virginia. This press release was produced by Prince William County Public Schools. The views expressed here are the author's own.