Mack being promoted to principal

A long-time Williamsburg educator will be assuming the ranks of school principal starting July 1.
Williamsburg Superintendent Denny Byrd said Tuesday afternoon that Assistant Principal Joy Mack will be serving as acting principal for the remainder of the school year following Tom Faulkner’s announcement last week that he is resigning as school principal effective June 30. At the end of the school year, Mack will take the acting title off her position assuming the role of school principal.
Byrd said Faulkner has decided to go back into retirement after serving nearly two years as principal, and that he has decided not to return for the remainder of the school year.
Faulkner worked one year as an assistant principal at Corbin High School before he retired for the first time in 1994 after 28 years in the education field.
At the age of 58, Faulkner was hired in 2003 to replace outgoing principal Lee Kirkpatrick.
Byrd said school officials will be advertising the position of assistant principal with an emphasis working with elementary school children, and will be taking applications from both inside and outside the district.
Mack started out as a social studies teacher, and moved up to the position of assistant principal four years ago.
“She will be wonderful,” Byrd said.