The Wake County Board of Education named Dr. Donna Hargens Interim Superintendent at its meeting last night.
Dr. Hargens will oversee the administrative duties of day-to-day operations of the school system. She was named acting superintendent by the board in a specially called meeting on Tuesday, March 9.
Hargens has served the school system as Chief Academic Officer and Area Assistant Superintendent, as well as principal of Green Hope High and Cary High. She was an assistant principal at Millbrook High.
Hargens earned her bachelor’s degree from Marquette University, her master’s degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and her doctorate from Seton Hall University.