Greg Adkins stepping down as Lee County schools superintendent
He announced his plans to retire in a message to district staff Friday morning.
Adkins, 56, has served as superintendent since 2015, making his tenure the second longest in recent history behind James Browder, who served from 2003 to 2010. Serving as superintendent in Lee County for the last five and half years has been truly an honor and privilege beyond my highest expectation, Adkins wrote in the message.
His tenure as chief of schools is marked by successes he enumerated in the letter to employees, but his leadership was questioned by a few school board members who ran campaigns to remove him from office.
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