Regional Winners Named for the 2025 Superintendent of the Year Award
Austin— Seventeen district leaders from across Texas have been selected as regional winners in the 2025 Superintendent of the Year competition held each year by the Texas Association of School Boards.
The regional winners are selected by committees at each participating education service center in the state. Those committees meet each spring to consider the nominees put forward by school boards in their respective regions.
“I want to thank all member school boards for their work in nominating superintendents to be considered for this prestigious award,” said TASB Executive Director Dan Troxell. “The process includes a lengthy application in addition to a board vote, so we know that the nominees have the full support of their trustees.”
Troxell also thanked all of the participating ESCs that screened and interviewed nominees to determine their regional winner. “These regional selection committees are essential to the success of the Superintendent of the Year program, which has been honoring excellence in Texas public education for more than three decades.”
To be eligible for the award, nominated candidates must have served in their position with their current board for at least three years. Other criteria include accomplishments in the areas of public education leadership, management, school climate, board and community relations, fiscal management, school improvement, and instructional leadership.
This year’s regional SOTY winners will advance to the next phase of the competition in August, when a committee of the TASB Board of Directors holds interviews to select five state finalists. Those finalists then undergo another round of interviews before the Superintendent of the Year is announced at txEDCON, scheduled this year for Sept. 11-14 in Houston.
This year’s regional superintendents of the year, in order of ESC, are listed below:
- Region 1: Angela Dominguez, Donna ISD
- Region 2: Eddie Hesseltine, Orange Grove ISD
- Region 4: Roosevelt Nivens, Lamar CISD
- Region 5: Shannon Allen, Beaumont ISD
- Region 6: Adrian Johnson, Hearne ISD
- Region 7: Lamond Dean, Chapel Hill ISD
- Region 8: Jason Harris, Atlanta ISD
- Region 9: Colin Howeth, Knox City-O'Brien CISD
- Region 10: Mike Waldrip, Frisco ISD
- Region 11: Lori Rapp, Lewisville ISD
- Region 12: Andrew Miller, Moody ISD
- Region 13: Mark Estrada, Lockhart ISD
- Region 14: Larry Polk, Colorado ISD
- Region 15: Amanda Traylor, Veribest ISD
- Region 16: Kurt Ashmore, Wellington ISD
- Region 19: Jose Franco, Fort Hancock ISD
- Region 20: Gerardo Soto, Harlandale ISD
About TASB
TASB is a nonprofit organization established in 1949 to serve local Texas school boards. School board members are the largest group of publicly elected officials in the state. The number of public school students served by TASB members is more than 5 million.