Board of Trustees Names New FSDB President
Posted: 11/4/2011 in Announcements
PRESS RELEASE
ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. (Nov. 4, 2011) — The Board of Trustees for the Florida School for the Deaf and the Blind announced today that Dr. Jeanne Glidden Prickett, Superintendent of the Iowa School for the Deaf, will serve as the school’s 17th president, and first female president, in FSDB’s 126-year history.
“I look forward to working with each and every one of you to include students, families, faculty, staff, friends of FSDB and community members,” Dr. Prickett said before the board. “This school has a great reputation and has potential that is realized and potential for the future.”
Dr. Prickett will succeed L. Daniel Hutto who has served as the school’s interim president in October 2007 and as president since January 2008. He is set to retire on April 30, 2012.
“Under Mr. Hutto’s leadership, FSDB has been taken to new levels,” said Mr. Christopher Wagner, Board of Trustees Chair. “The school is very well-positioned for the future in serving our children, and the Board of Trustees is extremely pleased and honored to select Dr. Prickett for her leadership and administrative skills, coupled with her vision for deaf/hard of hearing and blind/visually impaired education. She is an excellent choice for FSDB.”
Dr. Prickett brings nearly 40 years of experience in deaf/hard of hearing and blind/visually impaired education in the various positions she has served during her career.
She earned her bachelor’s degree in education for the visually handicapped and elementary education from Illinois State University in 1973. She also holds a master’s degree in education for the hearing impaired and earned a doctorate degree in special education from Illinois State University.
Dr. Prickett began her career as a teacher in the laboratory schools at Illinois State University in 1973, with a resource room of students with visual impairments.
She has served in her current position as the superintendent for the Iowa School for the Deaf since 2003 where she administers instructional and dormitory programs for students who are deaf/hard of hearing and deaf-blind, and has served in various positions throughout the years to include the following:
- Administrator, Hawaii Center for the Deaf and the Blind in Honolulu, Hawaii
- Coordinator of Materials Development for the American Foundation for the Blind in New York, N.Y.
- Assistant Professor-Division of Education, Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Md.
- Coordinator/Project Director on Deaf-Blindness, Gallaudet University in Washington, D.C.
- Chairperson for Instructional Programs and Services, Dupage/West Cook Regional Special Education Association in Lombard, Ill.
- Coordinator, Hearing and Vision Impaired Programs, Central Association for Special Education in Decatur, Ill.
- Hearing Impaired Consultant, Dupage/West Cook Regional Special Education Association in Lombard, Ill.
Dr. Prickett also serves on various committees and advisory boards to include the Association for Education and Rehabilitation of the Blind and Visually Impaired, Convention of the American Instructors of the Deaf and National Association of the Deaf/Iowa Association of the Deaf.
“My vision is that I will ensure that all graduates of the Florida School for the Deaf and the Blind become contributing adult citizens and have the self determination to participate fully in their community of choice,” Dr. Prickett said.
A native of Illinois, Dr. Prickett is married to Dr. Hugh Prickett and has four stepchildren and three step-grandchildren.
