• Harold Border — current chief of Orange County High Schools in Florida;
• Frederick Heid — current superintendent, Community Unit School District in Algonquin, Illinois;
• James McIntyre, Jr. — assistant professor of practice and director of the Center for Educational Leadership at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville;
• Michael Ramirez — deputy superintendent of Denver Public Schools in Colorado;
• Nakia Towns — deputy superintendent of Hamilton County Schools in Chattanooga, Tennessee
About a dozen or so people attended the interview sessions on Wednesday and Thursday, while about four dozen people gathered for Thursday evening’s meet and greet at the Jim Miles Center in Highland City.